ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Has Predicted the Structure of Almost Every Protein Known to Science
Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review
"From today, the Alphabet-owned AI lab is...
Progress in artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of AIs that perform tasks previously thought only possible for humans, such as translating languages, driving...
Two years ago, prosthetics startup Unlimited Tomorrow launched TrueLimb, its next-generation bionic arm. Six years of research and development went into TrueLimb, and the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI Is Ready to Sell DALL-E to its First Million Customers
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"'We've seen much more interest than we...
Alarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing, and glaciers are flowing...
As organizations increasingly look to employ drones for everything from deliveries to pest control to surveillance, safety in the skies is becoming an issue...
Babies are bubbly, cuddly, giggly balls of joy. They’re also enormously powerful learning machines. At three months old, they already have intuition about how...
Electrifying aviation could help tackle the sector’s serious emissions problems, but battery-powered passenger jets are still some way off. All-electric seagliders that skim the...
Jurassic World: Dominion is hyperbolic Hollywood entertainment at its best, with an action-packed storyline that refuses to let reality get in the way of a...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Meet Plato, an AI That Gains Intuition Like a Human Baby
Monisha Ravisetti | CNET
"In collaboration with AI research laboratory DeepMind in the UK,...
The list of challenges space explorers will face is formidable. They'll have to produce breathable air, clean water, and food in extremely hostile environments...
SPACE
Rocket Lab Offers Next-Day Shipping to Space
Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch
"It wasn’t long ago that orbital launches were something that took years of planning and...
Ever wondered about the secret to a long life? Perhaps understanding the lifespans of other animals with backbones (vertebrates) might help us unlock this...
How groups of humans working together collaboratively should redistribute the wealth they create is a problem that has plagued philosophers, economists, and political scientists...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper About Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published
Almira Osmanovic Thunström | Scientific American
"On a rainy...
Stranger Things fans will be familiar with this scene: Eleven, a girl with telekinetic powers, stares intently at a Coke can. Without physically touching...
In 2020, OpenAI’s machine learning algorithm GPT-3 blew people away when, after ingesting billions of words scraped from the internet, it began spitting out...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Yann LeCun Has a Bold New Vision for the Future of AI
Melissa Heikkiläarchive page and Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"In a...
Reducing carbon emissions from roads, railways, and shipping requires implementing a range of solutions simultaneously. As far as cars are concerned, cutting the number...
Just under 402 years ago, in August of 1620, the Mayflower set sail from Southampton, England, bound for America. The 100-foot-long-long, triple-masted wooden vessel...
The millirobot looked like an adorable cartoon vehicle as it expertly navigated a complex maze. It’s a strange creature: the bottom resembles a collapsed...
Genes are like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Thanks to advances in whole-genome sequencing, it’s increasingly easy to read each DNA letter. But the strings of A,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This AI Model Tries to Re-create the Mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Pranshu Verma | The Washington Post
"The model, called Ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
The number of packages people order—and the number of people ordering packages—isn’t likely to go down anytime in the foreseeable future, and companies are...
In late 2021, a 3D printed house went up in Williamsburg, Virginia. The printed portion of the three-bed two-bath home—that is, the exterior walls—took...
Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software...
AI has done it again.
After solving one of the grandest mysteries in biology—predicting protein structure—it decoded how proteins link up into complexes, and dreamed...
War, disease, division—things aren't looking too rosy for humanity at the moment. But thanks to Microsoft, at least we'll be listening to Stevie Wonder...
COMPUTING
Photonic Chip Performs Image Recognition at the Speed of Light
Charles Q. Choi | IEEE Spectrum
"In a new study, researchers have developed a photonic deep...