Roundtables: Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware
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The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives
Roboticists believe that, using new AI techniques, they can unlock more capable robots that can move freely through unfamiliar environments...
My deepfake shows how valuable our data is in the age of AI
Synthesia has managed to create AI avatars that are remarkably humanlike after only one year of tinkering with the latest...
The robot race is fueling a fight for training data
“A lot of people are scrambling to figure out what’s the next big data source,” says Pras Velagapudi, chief technology...
The Download: inside the US defense tech aid package, and how AI is improving vegan cheese
After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President Joe Biden...
Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
One of those systems is Israel’s Iron Dome, in which radar systems detect projectiles and then signal units to launch...
The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my biotech plants
How it works: The Trustworthy Language Model gives any output generated by a large language model a score between 0...
My biotech plants are dead
Hodge says he got interested in the plants after reading an article about combating light pollution by using bioluminescent flora...
Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool helps you figure out which ones to trust.
The Trustworthy Language Model draws on multiple techniques to calculate its scores. First, each query submitted to the tool is...
The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy’s implications for mining
Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them...
Want less mining? Switch to clean energy.
Many minerals appear in small concentrations in source rock, so the process of extracting them has a large footprint relative...
Hydrogen could be used for nearly everything. It probably shouldn’t be.
Beyond that, though, hydrogen will probably be most useful in industries where there aren’t other practical options already on the...
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
The more data points the AI system has on facial movements, microexpressions, head tilts, blinks, shrugs, and hand waves, the...
A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person
“It’s an awfully exciting time,” says Andrew Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. “There is a...
Almost every Chinese keyboard app has a security flaw that reveals what users type
The massive scale of the problem is compounded by the fact that these vulnerabilities aren’t hard to exploit. “You don’t...
The Download: introducing the Build issue
Building is a popular tech industry motif—especially in Silicon Valley, where “Time to build” has become something of a call...
Three takeaways about the state of Chinese tech in the US
Catch up with China 1. A batch of documents mistakenly unsealed by a Pennsylvania court reveals the origin story of...
What tech learned from Daedalus
Of course, Langford’s team modified some of the mythical parameters. The aircraft replaced feathers and wax with carbon-fiber wings, and...
I went to COP28. Now the real work begins.
At home in Jamaica, Gentles has seen the impact of climate change firsthand.COURTESY OF RUNAKO GENTLES Beyond significantly lowering the...
Taking on climate change, Rad Lab style
And once I arrived, I heard the same sentiment, framed in local terms: “Can you please help us organize ourselves...
