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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...

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...
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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...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says His Company Is Now Building GPT-5

At an MIT event in March, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said his team wasn't yet training its next AI, GPT-5. “We are...

Researchers Warn We Could Run Out of Data to Train AI by 2026. What Then?

As artificial intelligence reaches the peak of its popularity, researchers have warned the industry might be running out of training data—the fuel that runs...

How Generative AI Could Help Us Predict the Next Pandemic

Viruses have an uncanny ability to rapidly evolve. Covid-19 is a stark example. As the virus mutated from beta to delta to omicron, the...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 11)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Personalized AI Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? Kevin Roose | The New York Times "Very soon, tech companies tell us, AI 'agents'...

Biologists Unveil the First Living Yeast Cells With Over 50% Synthetic DNA

Our ability to manipulate the genes of living organisms has expanded dramatically in recent years. Now, researchers are a step closer to building genomes...

Spinal Implant Helps a Man With Severe Parkinson’s Walk With Ease Again

In his mid-30s, Marc Gauthier noticed a creeping stiffness in his muscles. His hand shook when trying to hold steady. He struggled to maintain...

How the World’s Biggest Optical Telescope Could Crack Some of the Greatest Puzzles in Science

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature...

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