Nuclear fusion has experienced something of a renaissance in recent years with a host of startups and governments seriously pursuing the idea. UK scientists...
Concerns about the environmental impact of AI have prompted big tech firms to explore exotic options for reducing their emissions. Now, Meta plans to...
ROBOTICS
This Could Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution
Will Knight | Wired
"In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that...
After years of overly aggressive forecasts about self-driving cars, here's a statistic that snuck up on us: People are now hailing 100,000 automated rides...
Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Food is fundamental to life—nourishing body and soul—so how it’s accessed, prepared, and consumed can change societies...
As our energy mix shifts towards intermittent renewable sources, utility-scale batteries will be crucial for balancing power supply. The latest figures from the US...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Generative AI Creates Playable Version of Doom Game With No Code
Matthew Sparkes | New Scientist
"An AI-generated re-creation of the classic computer game Doom can...
Alzheimer’s disease slowly takes over the mind. Long before symptoms occur, brain cells are gradually losing their function. Eventually they wither away, eroding brain...
Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale.
Around the beginning of this decade, AI labs noticed that making their algorithms—or models—ever...
Artificial intelligence prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “model collapse.”
But how realistic...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments
Will Knight | Wired
"At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a...
The rapid transition to renewable energy is great news for the environment, but electrical grids are struggling to incorporate intermittent power sources like wind...
Our brains are constantly learning. That new sandwich deli rocks. That gas station? Better avoid it in the future.
Memories like these physically rewire connections...
