The Download: how criminals use AI, and OpenAI’s Chinese data blunder
Artificial intelligence has brought a big boost in productivity—to the criminal underworld.Generative AI provides a new, powerful tool kit that...
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OpenAI’s latest blunder shows the challenges facing Chinese AI models
In fact, among the few long Chinese tokens in GPT-4o that aren’t either pornography or gambling nonsense, two are “socialism...
Five ways criminals are using AI
That’s because AI companies have put in place various safeguards to prevent their models from spewing harmful or dangerous information....
The Download: how to test AI, and treating paralysis
Humans are complicated beings. The ways we communicate are multilayered, and psychologists have devised many kinds of tests to measure...
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Between the world leaders gathering in Seoul for the second AI Safety Summit this week and Google and OpenAI’s launches...
A device that zaps the spinal cord gave paralyzed people better control of their hands
The stimulation won’t work in the small percentage of people who have no remaining connection between the brain and spine...
AI models can outperform humans in tests to identify mental states
Theory of mind is a hallmark of emotional and social intelligence that allows us to infer people’s intentions and engage...
The Download: GPT-4o’s polluted Chinese training data, and astronomy’s AI challenge
Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o last Monday, some Chinese speakers started to notice that something seemed off about this newest...
Astronomers are enlisting AI to prepare for a data downpour
It’s a problem that will be repeated in other places over the coming decade. As astronomers construct giant cameras to...
GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites
The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% are in non-English languages, says Deedy Das, an AI...
The Download: cuddly robots to help dementia, and what Daedalus taught us
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world...
How cuddly robots could change dementia care
That’s how I discovered the Golden Pup from Joy for All. It cocks its head. It sports a jaunty red...
Roundtables: Why Thermal Batteries are So Hot Right Now
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
Unlocking the trillion-dollar potential of generative AI
In this session, experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, discuss the drivers fueling the massive potential...
The Download: rapid DNA analysis for disasters, and supercharged AI assistants
Last summer was the hottest in 2,000 years. Here’s how we know. The summer of 2023 in the Northern Hemisphere...
This grim but revolutionary DNA technology is changing how we respond to mass disasters
Meanwhile, after the fires, Filipino families faced particularly stark barriers to getting information about financial support, government assistance, housing, and...
Last summer was the hottest in 2,000 years. Here’s how we know.
It’s taken several decades of work and hundreds of scientists to develop the records that researchers used for this new...
A wave of retractions is shaking physics
Ziemelis also emphasized that “retractions are not always bad.” While some retractions occur because of research misconduct, “some retractions are...
OpenAI and Google are launching supercharged AI assistants. Here’s how you can try them out.
On Tuesday, Google announced its own new tools, including a conversational assistant called Gemini Live, which can do many of...
Optimizing the supply chain with a data lakehouse
Until recently, access to the bulk of an organizations’ supply chain data has been limited to specialists, distributed across myriad...
