A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier—if it doesn’t tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it. Jiang Chen, a machine learning expert who previously worked at Google, […]
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Microsoft Thinks AI Can Beat Google at Search — CEO Satya Nadella Explains Why
AI is coming for your browser, your social media, and your operating system, too. I’m coming to you from Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version […]
Tech CEOs Screwed Up
Given the human and business downsides of layoffs, a CEO’s top priority should be to avoid them at all costs. Some companies have managed to do just that. Apple has managed to cut costs without […]
Why is Science Slowing Down?
Science is the engine of society, and the decline of truly disruptive research is a warning sign for all of us. There might be more science now, but it feels like it adds up to […]
Next Up for CRISPR: Gene Editing for The Masses?
Last year, Verve Therapeutics started the first human trial of a CRISPR treatment that could benefit most people—a signal that gene editing may be ready to go mainstream. Gene-editing treatments work by directly altering the […]
Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion in the US for Copyright Infringement
Getty Images has filed a case against Stability AI, alleging that the company copied 12 million images to train its AI model ‘without permission … or compensation.’ The stock photography company is accusing Stability AI […]
Stable Attribution: A New Tool Could Ruin Generative AI, Or It Could Save It
Jon Stokes takes a closer look at how artists have responded to having their work used to train an AI that can then produce output in their style without their involvement, consent, or compensation. What […]
Instagram’s Co-Founders are Mounting a Comeback
The Instagram co-founders, who departed Facebook in 2018 amid tensions with their parent company, have formed a new venture to explore ideas for next-generation social apps. Their first product is Artifact, a personalized news feed […]
The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
It really was jarring to see those employment figures the same week that tech company after tech company reported mostly disappointing earnings, and worse forecasts, all on the heels of layoffs. Even Meta, which saw […]
Stable Attribution Lets Anyone Find the Human Creators Behind AI Generated Images
Given any image generated by Stable Diffusion, Stable Attribution finds the images in the model’s training set which most contributed to the generated image. The discourse around generative image models, especially the use of creative’s […]
Scientists Use Graphene to Construct Tractor Beam
Physicists in China report that they have built a tractor beam capable of moving objects on the macroscale. In the latest issue of Optics Express, the group reports that when using a 90mW laser, their […]
Artificial Neural Networks Made from Memristors for Brain-Inspired Computing
Research in neuromorphic computing aims to emulate the architecture and properties of the brain to create a new generation of computers that are as small and frugal as a laptop but as powerful as a […]
Inside the Global Battle Over Chip Manufacturing
Professor Chris Miller’s new book “Chip War” explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone. Afew weeks ago, President Joe Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from […]
Why VR/AR Gets Farther Away as It Comes Into Focus
When Neal Stephenson wrote “Snow Crash” in 1992, he set it in the future – at a time where more than a hundred million people used AR/VR glasses regularly. When do you think it was? […]
Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content
“Disclosing AI content is like telling the IRS you have a cash-only business.” When prominent tech news site CNET was caught last month using AI to quietly publish dozens of articles, it produced widespread alarm. […]
Why The “Service” of SaaS Matters More to Banks
Vendors that underestimate the value that banking executives place on a trusted and lasting service can expect to get left behind in the big banking SaaS bang. Banking executives “get” SaaS. They understand that the […]
Don’t Be Sucked in By AI’s Hype Cycles
Let’s all chill out. AI is a promising new technology, but the conversation isn’t always genuine, and it’s generating more heat than light. It’s obvious there’s a lot of potential in something like ChatGPT, but […]
Twitter Now Wants to Become a Payments Platform
The platform would essentially compete with PayPal and even Apple Pay, which lets users not only pay in stores, but also transfer money between them. Since Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter, the company […]
The Meme That Defined a Decade
Over the past 10 years, the “This Is Fine” dog has evolved from a joke into an indictment. Memes rarely endure. Most explode and recede at nearly the same moment: the same month or week […]
What the Tech and Media Layoffs Are Really Telling Us About the Economy
About 130,000 people have been dismissed from their jobs at large tech and media companies in the past 12 months. Why? These layoff announcements have become depressingly common, even rote. But they’re also kind of […]
Becoming Strange in the Long Singularity
A sudden increase in AI capability suggests a weirder world in our near future. I already know people who are training GPT on their own writings, and interrogating “themselves” to discover new insights. I have […]
Alphabet Brings AgTech Startup out of Stealth with Data from 10% of World’s Farmland
This month Alphabet, the parent company of Google, publicly launched Mineral, an agtech business it’s been incubating in stealth within its so-called “moonshot factory” X since 2017. Mineral aims to provide foundational and actionable data […]
Crypto’s Greatest Experiment Looks All But Over
Never say never, but some of DeFi’s boldest explorers might view the last year as an experience not to be repeated. The weeks of chaos in decentralized finance that followed the $60 billion collapse of […]
Last Year Marked the End of an Era in Spaceflight – Here’s What We’re Watching Next
2022 was a momentous one in spaceflight, bringing to a close many of the most significant storylines that have dominated this industry in the last 10 to 15 years. Consider the state of play in […]
What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?
Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself. any years ago, I learned to program on an old Symbolics Lisp Machine. The operating system […]
The Banality of ChatGPT
Despite being the culmination of a century-long dream, no better word describes the much-discussed output of OpenAI’s ChatGPT than the colloquial “mid.” Just as Hannah Arendt reckoned with “the banality of evil” so we must […]
These Scientists Created Jewellery Out Of the Striking Shapes of Chaos Theory
Not just inspired by chaos theory, but directly created from its mathematical principles. A team of Italian scientists has figured out a way of turning the striking, complex twisting shapes of chaos theory into actual […]
MIT’s Superthin Solar Cells Convert Any Surface Into a Power Source
MIT engineers have developed ultralight and thinner-than-hair fabric solar cells that transform any surface into a power generator within seconds of plastering them. The durable and flexible solar cells are pasted to a super-light fabric, […]
Why We Need New Stories on Climate
So much is happening, both wonderful and terrible – and it matters how we tell it. We can’t erase the bad news, but to ignore the good is the route to indifference or despair. Every […]
Neanderthals Produced the Oldest Paintings Found on Earth
As early as 250,000 years ago, Neanderthals were mixing minerals such as haematite (ochre) and manganese with fluids to make red and black paints — presumably to decorate the body and clothing. One of the […]