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...
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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...
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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 wanted to work on something that didn’t exist”
Mice “would normally eat ferociously” when given access to food after fasting. “But if you stimulate those cells in the...
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...
Raman to go
“The problem with spectrometers is that they have this intrinsic trade-off,” Persits says. The more light that goes into the...
A walking antidote to political cynicism
He credits his success in part to being “really good at the boring technical stuff,” as he puts it. “I...
A Grammy for Miguel Zenón
Nobel Prizes and other scientific honors are nearly routine at MIT, but a Grammy Award is something we don’t see...
The Download: saving seals with artificial snow, and AI’s effects on politics
For millennia, during Finland’s blistering winters, wind drove snow into meters-high snowbanks along Lake Saimaa’s shoreline, offering prime real estate...
These artificial snowdrifts protect seal pups from climate change
As ice and snow arrive, the teams spring into action, joined by groups run by the charity World Wildlife Fund...
The Download: Neuralink’s biggest rivals, and the case for phasing out the term “user”
In the world of brain-computer interfaces, it can seem as if one company sucks up all the oxygen in the...
Beyond Neuralink: Meet the other companies developing brain-computer interfaces
“Paradromics actually has the highest-bandwidth interface, but they haven't demonstrated it in humans yet,” Robinson says. The electrodes sit on...
