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TIME Magazine's "Best Inventions" article highlights 200 innovative products and services selected by TIME editors for their positive impact on the world. The inventions cover a wide range of categories, from robotics and social good to household items and sustainability. Notable inventions include a robotic surgical system for microsurgery, a pouch to disconnect from cell phones, a quick at-home cold brew coffee machine, and a 3D map of the universe. These inventions aim to improve various aspects of life, from healthcare and education to sustainability and entertainment. [Extracted from the article]

AN ARTIFICIAL intelligence can solve the CAPTCHA puzzles used by websites to distinguish whether users are humans or bots 100 per cent of the time. Andreas Plesner at ETH Zurich [...]

Using chatbots or voice assistants to find out information makes it less likely you will spot errors THE conversational tone of an AI chatbot or voice-based assistant seems like a [...]

NEGATIVE news stories about social media platforms appear to be highly effective at pressuring companies into changing their policies. Christian Katzenbach at the University of Bremen, Germany, and his colleagues [...]

Chatbots can be abused by malware to help them propagate via emails A COMPUTER virus can use ChatGPT to rewrite its code to avoid detection, then write tailored emails that […]

AN ARTIFICIAL intelligence can accurately predict how a monkey plays the video game Pac-Man and mimic the animal's eye movements. Tianming Yang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his [...]

Microgreens are trendy and fun to grow, but do they really live up to their health-boosting superfood label, asks Chris Stokel-Walker FOR several years, I have had a collection of [...]

Book https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443151/love-triangle-by-parker-matt/9780241505694 Matt Parker(Allen Lane) A sometimes fascinating book by a stand-up mathematician leaves Chris Stokel-Walker in an unexpected bind WRITING a popular science book that lures readers into often [...]

PEOPLE will take a 28 per cent pay cut when they can use a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) to assist with their writing job. This is [...]

Big tech firms are competing to have the most exciting artificial intelligence products, but generative AI remains hampered by issues, says Chris Stokel-Walker WHEN OpenAI released its ChatGPT tool in [...]

Political adverts may swing elections cheaply, finds an analysis of German election results A POLITICIAN really can increase their popularity by using adverts on social media, and swaying a single [...]

LARGE language model chatbots like those powering ChatGPT can reduce someone's beliefs in conspiracy theories by debating with them. The tactics used by the chatbots reveal potentially better ways for [...]

Book https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/296774/alex-edmans Alex Edmans(Penguin Business, 25 April (UK); University of California Press, 14 May (US)) Can you see through deceiving data and beguiling stories? Take the card test and find [...]

AI image generators can be made more culturally sensitive and accurate by feeding them just a small number of more representitive images. The images used to train these artificial intelligence [...]

Book https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/madhumita-murgia/code-dependent/9788119300969 Madhumita Murgia(Picador) AI is already challenging our work and lives. A must-read book explores the human impact, finds Chris Stokel-Walker THE artificial intelligence revolution has overwhelmed us all [...]

People who used generative AI to create art got better feedback, despite it being less original USING artificial intelligence to create artworks increases artists' productivity and generates more positive reactions, [...]

Book https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/pete-etchells/unlocked/9780349432939/ Pete Etchells(Piatkus) What is all our screen use really doing to us? A new book counters the scare stories by sticking to the science, says Chris Stokel-Walker DURING [...]

TAKING between 9000 and 10,000 steps per day seems to reduce the risk of an early death or heart-related event, adding legitimacy to an idea that has been criticised as [...]

THE artificially intelligent large language models (LLMs) behind chatbots may 'think' in English, even if tasked to do something in a different language. This is because their training data is [...]

The idea that musical notes sound best in certain mathematical combinations doesn't seem true AN ANCIENT Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes – often attributed to [...]

PUBLIC appetite for moderating toxic speech on social media depends on who is being targeted, researchers have found, with billionaires being seen as in least need of protection. Content moderation [...]

Book https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455427/reason-to-be-happy-by-basu-kaushik/9781911709251 Kaushik Basu(Torva) A leading economist argues that we can increase our overall happinesss by thinking logically. Chris Stokel-Walker explores I NEED to admit something: at times, I am [...]

A HUMANOID robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing a haptic feedback suit and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way [...]

CRYPTOCURRENCY traders could have tripled their money by basing their investments on whether the number of posts mentioning a currency on Reddit was greater than the day before. Emiliano De [...]

A CHINESE social network's attempt to reduce abuse by displaying people's estimated locations alongside their posts actually gave fellow users a new weapon with which to sling insults. In April [...]

ARTIFICIAL intelligence can turn a single photo of an item of clothing being worn into accurate sewing patterns to recreate the garment. Clothing makers use sewing patterns to create the [...]

Book https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ben-mezrich/breaking-twitter/9781035032464#:~:text=Breaking%20Twitter%20by%20Ben%20Mezrich%20%2D%20Pan%20Macmillan Ben Mezrich(Pan Macmillan) This tale of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter may end up a hit as a movie – but not as a book, finds Chris Stokel-Walker [...]

LARGE language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person's age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media. [...]

A SOCIAL media algorithm designed to bridge the gap between people with different political views could reduce the toxicity of online discourse and promote better conversations. It seems to be [...]

TOYS are a much larger contributor to electronic waste than vapes, according to an analysis by the United Nations. To mark International E-Waste Day on 14 October, the Waste Electrical [...]

Book https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460663/extremely-online-by-lorenz-taylor/9780753560792 Taylor Lorenz(WH Allen) In a vital read, a journalist goes behind the scenes of the creator economy to trace its meteoric rise, says Chris Stokel-Walker SOCIAL media has [...]