Chatbots could be used to diagnose patients in a bid to reduce waiting times in emergency departments, researchers have indicated. It comes after a study found that ChatGPT, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), 'performed well' in generating a list of diagnoses for patients and suggesting the most likely option. Researchers in the Netherlands entered the records of 30 patients who visited an emergency department in 2022, as well as anonymous doctors' notes, into ChatGPT versions 3.5 and 4.0. The AI analysis was compared to two clinicians who made a diagnosis based on the same information, both with and without laboratory data. When lab data was included, doctors had the correct answer in their top five differential diagnoses in 87% of cases, compared with 97% for ChatGPT 3.5 and 87% for ChatGPT 4.0.

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Palette.fm is a free artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can turn black-and-white photos into color. Thanks to machine learning, it can identify what is in an image and take a good guess at applying the right color. If you've never colorized black-and-white photos before, the results will blow you away! Unlike other AI colorizer tools, the image can be fine-tuned using a text prompt or by selecting a different color palette. If you have some old black-and-white family photos, this is how you can bring them to life in a matter of minutes.

The problems with stock images of AI has been discussed and analysed a number of times already and there are some great articles and papers about it that describe the issues better than we can. The Real Scandal of AI also identifies issues with stock photos. The AI Myths project, amongst other topics, includes a feature on how shiny robots are often used to represent AI. Going a bit deeper, this article explores how researchers have illustrated AI over the decades, this paper discusses how AI is often portrayed as white "in colour, ethnicity, or both" and this paper investigates the "AI Creation" meme that features a human hand and a machine hand nearly touching. Wider issues with the portrayal and perception of AI have also been frequently studied, as by the Royal Society here.

Adobe has unveiled a new attribution tool for Photoshop that will help consumers better understand the authenticity of images while giving proper credit to creators. Part of Adobe's open source Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), the prototype feature will allow creators to add their name, location and edit history to photos, among other tags. That will create what Adobe calls a "tamper evident" paper trail for an image, allowing users to identify authentic versus deepfake images and even see how they were created. Adobe first launched CAI with Twitter and the New York Times in the wake of numerous instances of fake and altered images. Since then, Adobe has collaborated with its launch partners, along with Microsoft, the BBC, Qualcomm and others to create the prototype tool.

Have you ever seen someone's face in passing, then recognized that same person years later? If so, you may be a "super-recognizer." Researcher Dr. Josh P. Davis at the University of Greenwich has developed a quick and free online test to identify people who are exceptionally good at human facial recognition. While many may be good or even great at recognizing others, Davis hypothesizes super-recognizers account for less than one percent of the population. Davis' online test takes less than five minutes to complete.

People are often a little suspicious of automation. The Industrial Revolution sparked fear in workers that they'd become superfluous to modern production. But the reality was much different. Humans and machines work together, with the former using the latter to improve their roles. AI, with capabilities never seen before in machines, adds a fresh element to this long-standing human narrative.

You have to admit it. Some of the uses of artificial intelligence are simply fascinating. One of the more exciting aspects of artificial intelligence is seeing all the potential ways the technology can be applied to our daily lives, even if it at times it seems a little creepy. We have seen artificial intelligence technology shape everything from the medical world to art. However, did you ever think that AI would go on to shape the world of stock images?

With the internet buzzing about the viral FaceApp, which uses AI to predict how anyone will look in 30 years, there's another service that will transform you into a work of art. If you've ever dreamed of how your portrait would look if it were painted by one of the great masters, this app is for you. AI Portraits uses information from over 45,000 15th-century masterpieces to help "paint" the portrait of any photo that's uploaded. While there are plenty of apps and filters that promise to make your photo into a work of art, AI Portraits distinguishes itself with its GAN models. Many services use style transfers that alter colors, but leave the facial lines untouched.