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Brain Implant Sparks Remarkable Recovery in Patients With Severe Brain Injury

At 21 years old, a young woman’s life was turned upside down after suffering a blow to the head and severe brain injury during...

Are We Ready to Head to Mars? Not So Fast.

In August 1998, 700 people came to Boulder, Colorado to attend the founding convention of the Mars Society. The group’s cofounder and president, Robert...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 2)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off Matthew Smith | IEEE Spectrum "The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no...

This DeepMind AI Rapidly Learns New Skills Just by Watching Humans

Teaching algorithms to mimic humans typically requires hundreds or thousands of examples. But a new AI from Google DeepMind can pick up new skills...

A Google DeepMind AI Just Discovered 380,000 New Materials. This Robot Is Cooking Them Up.

A robot chemist just teamed up with an AI brain to create a trove of new materials. Two collaborative studies from Google DeepMind and the...

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year Reflects Growing Concerns Over AI’s Ability to Deceive

When Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was “authentic,” it did so with over a month to go in the...

An AI Tool Just Revealed Almost 200 New Systems for CRISPR Gene Editing

CRISPR has a problem: an embarrassment of riches. Ever since the gene editing system rocketed to fame, scientists have been looking for variants with better...

DeepMind Defines Artificial General Intelligence and Ranks Today’s Leading Chatbots

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, has become a much-abused buzzword in the AI industry. Now, Google DeepMind wants to put the idea on a...
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Did This Chemical Reaction Create the Building Blocks of Life on Earth?

How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know...

Scientists 3D Print a Complex Robotic Hand With Bones, Tendons, and Ligaments

We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding...

OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don’t Know Yet, and What Could Be Next

If you'd never heard of OpenAI before last week, you probably have now. The level of attention given to recent mayhem at the company...

‘Breakthrough’ CRISPR Treatment Slashes Cholesterol in First Human Clinical Trial

CRISPR-based therapies just hit another milestone. In a small clinical trial with 10 people genetically prone to dangerously high levels of cholesterol, a single infusion...

DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence

AI has mastered some of the most complex games known to man, but models are generally tailored to solve specific kinds of challenges. A...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 18)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google DeepMind’s AI Pop Star Clone Will Freak You Out Angela Watercutter | Wired "Two new tools using DeepMind’s music generation algorithm Lyria let anyone...

What Is Quantum Advantage? The Moment Extremely Powerful Quantum Computers Will Arrive

Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of quantum computing is fervently working toward, when a quantum computer can solve problems that are beyond...

Google DeepMind AI Nails Super Accurate 10-Day Weather Forecasts

This year was a nonstop parade of extreme weather events. Unprecedented heat swept the globe. This summer was the Earth’s hottest since 1880. From...

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