Artificial Intelligence | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/artificial-intelligence/RSS feed for Artificial IntelligenceenFri, 25 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000Google Just Released an A.I. Tool That Helps Historians Fill in Missing Words in Ancient Roman Inscriptionshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-just-released-an-ai-tool-that-helps-historians-fill-in-missing-words-in-ancient-roman-inscriptions-180987046/Known as Aeneas, the tool was trained on an extensive dataset of Latin epigraphy. Experts hope it will help decipher segments of text that have been lost to historyFri, 25 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000Some Researchers Are Hiding Secret Messages in Their Papers, but They're Not Meant for Humanshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/some-researchers-are-hiding-secret-messages-in-their-papers-but-theyre-not-meant-for-humans-180986996/Journalists have uncovered a handful of preprint academic studies with hidden prompts instructing A.I. reviewers to give positive responsesThu, 17 Jul 2025 14:23:30 +0000In South Africa, a Smart Gate Could Help Connect Elephants' Fragmented Habitathttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/in-south-africa-a-smart-gate-could-help-connect-elephants-fragmented-habitat-180986841/An unlikely quartet’s clever contraption may allow the pachyderms to make better use of their rangeTue, 24 Jun 2025 12:30:00 +0000Graduate Student Develops an A.I.-Based Approach to Restore Time-Damaged Artwork to Its Former Gloryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/graduate-student-develops-an-ai-based-approach-to-restore-time-damaged-artwork-to-its-former-glory-180986799/The method could help bring countless old paintings, currently stored in the back rooms of galleries with limited conservation budgets, to lightFri, 13 Jun 2025 20:21:02 +0000The Dead Sea Scrolls Changed Our Understanding of the Bible. Could Some of Them Be Even Older Than We Thought?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-dead-sea-scrolls-changed-our-understanding-of-the-bible-could-some-of-them-be-even-older-than-we-thought-180986746/A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, thought to be some of the earliest surviving fragments of the Old TestamentThu, 05 Jun 2025 20:00:39 +0000This 14-Year-Old Built an App That Detects Heart Diseases in Secondshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-built-an-app-that-detects-heart-diseases-in-seconds-180986700/Siddarth Nandyala wants to put his tool in the hands of medical professionals so that they can catch cardiovascular abnormalities in their early stagesFri, 30 May 2025 12:13:27 +0000