ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI's Latest Breakthrough Is Astonishingly Powerful, But Still Fighting Its Flaws
James Vincent | The Verge
"What makes GPT-3 amazing, they say, is not that...
Two and a half years ago, a study published in Science Advances detailed how the gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9 repaired genetic mutations related to...
Despite the frequent analogies, today’s AI operates on very different principles to the human brain. Now researchers have proposed a new learning method more...
When Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, it may have seemed artificial intelligence had finally arrived. A computer had just...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI's New Language Generator GPT-3 Is Shockingly Good—and Completely Mindless
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"'Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,'...
The CRISPR family just grew bigger. The newcomer? A tiny DNA-chomping Cas protein, tucked away inside giant viruses.
That’s the recent finding from Dr. Jennifer...
When robots take over the world, Boston Dynamics may get a special shout-out in the acceptance speech.
“Do you, perchance, recall the many times you...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI's Fiction Spewing AI Is Learning to Generate Images
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"The results are startlingly impressive and demonstrate a new path...
AI is being widely applied to speed up the search for new drugs and new materials that could dramatically improve critical technologies like batteries...
GENETICS
This Company Wants to Rewrite the Future of Genetic Disease
Megan Molteni | Wired
"Tessera has spent the past two years developing a new class of...
The ethics of AI is a hot topic at the minute, particularly with the ongoing controversies around facial recognition software. Now mathematicians have developed...
VIRTUAL REALITY
How Holographic Tech Is Shrinking VR Displays to the Size of Sunglasses
Kyle Orland | Ars Technica
"...researchers at Facebook Reality Labs are using holographic...
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we do things, big-time. The events, places, and activities we were used to enjoying have been canceled,...
With rapid technological progress running headlong into dramatic climate change and widening inequality, most experts agree the coming decade will be tumultuous. But a...
Contact tracing has been a somewhat controversial tool for fighting coronavirus in the US. American consumers wanted privacy to be preserved, so Apple and...
AUTOMATION
Amazon Shakes Up the Race for Self-Driving—and Ride-Hailing
Aarian Marshal | Wired
"Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says his company wants to be the 'Amazon for transportation.'...
The causes of aging are extremely complex and unclear. But with longevity clinical trials increasing, more answers—and questions—are emerging than ever before.
With the dramatic...
Twice a year, the world’s fastest supercomputers take a test to see which is top of class.
These hundred-million-dollar machines usually run on hundreds of...
In just half a decade, neuromorphic devices—or brain-inspired computing—already seem quaint. The current darling? Artificial-biological hybrid computing, uniting both man-made computer chips and biological...
In early 2019 OpenAI, a startup co-founded by Elon Musk devoted to ensuring artificial general intelligence is safe for humanity, announced it had created...
Uncrackable quantum communication is a step closer after Chinese researchers demonstrated a practical way to share security keys over 1,120 kilometers using entangled photons...
