ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
These Creepy Fake Humans Represent a New Age in AI
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
" are synthetic data designed to feed the growing...
Last month, self-driving technology company TuSimple shipped a truckload of watermelons across the state of Texas ten hours faster than normal. They did this...
NASA has selected two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to study the “lost habitable” world of Venus. Each mission will receive approximately $500 million...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
China's Gigantic Multi-Modal AI Is No One-Trick Pony
A. Tarantola | Engadget
"When Open AI's GPT-3 model made its debut in May of 2020, its performance...
Self-driving cars are taking longer to come to market than initially predicted by industry insiders, as a New York Times article highlighted this week....
Thanks to gene therapy and optogenetics—a neuroscience game-changer that relies on light to control neurons—a previously blind man can now partially see the world....
At the height of his career, the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla became obsessed with an idea. He theorized that electricity could be transmitted...
COMPUTING
Google Aims for Commercial-Grade Quantum Computer by 2029
Sara Castellanos | The Wall Street Journal
"Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to spend several billion dollars to build a...
Fields of rust-colored soil, spindly cassava, small farms and villages dot the landscape. Dust and smoke blur the mountains visible beyond massive Lake Malawi....
Imagine a collection of books—maybe millions or even billions of them—haphazardly tossed by publishers into a heaping pile in a field. Every day the...
COMPUTING
A New Brain Implant Translates Thoughts of Writing Into Text
John Timmer | Wired
"In early experiments, a paralyzed man with implants in his premotor cortex...
Most of the focus for making self-driving cars a widespread reality is on the cars themselves, specifically on the technology they require to safely...
Gene therapy has shown promise in recent years for treating a range of diseases, including sickle-cell anemia, hemophilia, various forms of inherited blindness, mesothelioma,...
Increasingly, modern life depends on how skillfully we shuttle electrons through the nanoscale mazes etched on computer chips. These processors aren’t just for laptops...
Artificial intelligence has been all over headlines for nearly a decade, as systems have made quick progress in long-standing AI challenges like image recognition,...
Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere—likely in Asia—before colonizing Africa. At the...
ROBOTICS
The Robot Surgeon Will See You Now
Cade Metz | The New York Times
"Real scalpels, artificial intelligence—what could go wrong? ...The project is a...
The online world is continuously expanding—always aggregating more services, more users, and more activity. Last year, the number of websites registered on the “.com”...
Building a computer that can support artificial intelligence at the scale and complexity of the human brain will be a colossal engineering effort. Now...
