Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
To come up with the new definition, the Google DeepMind team started with prominent existing definitions of AGI and drew...
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Behind Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s push to get AI tools in developers’ hands
On the other hand, coding today is a highly skilled, well-paid job, and there’s some concern that AI could effectively...
The Download: attempting to read someone’s mind, and AI weather forecasting
Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you must...
Huawei’s 5G chip breakthrough needs a reality check
But the sanctions also cut HiSilicon off from the global network of factories (called “foundries” or “fabs” in the semiconductor...
The Biggest Questions: Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind?
Even with the help of micro-phenomenology, however, wrapping up what’s going on inside your head into a neat verbal package...
Emtech MIT is happening right now
EmTech MIT, MIT Technology Review’s flagship event on emerging technology and global trends is November 14-15, 2023. This year’s event...
Google DeepMind’s weather AI can forecast extreme weather faster and more accurately
“Weather prediction is one of the most challenging problems that humanity has been working on for a long, long time....
The Download: the origins of life, and building Facebook’s AI empire
In 2006, the U.S. patent office received a filing for “an automatically generated display that contains information relevant to a...
How Facebook went all in on AI
The listed authors were “Zuckerberg et al.” and the product was the News Feed. The idea of showing users streams...
AI is at an inflection point, Fei-Fei Li says
Two things have happened, Li explains. Generative AI has caused the public to wake up to AI technology, she says,...
The Download: are we alone, and private military data for sale
The quest to determine if anyone or anything is out there has gained greater scientific footing over the past 50...
The US military’s privacy problem in three charts
That’s the finding of a new report from Duke University researchers that shows how data brokers are selling this sort of information...
The Biggest Questions: Are we alone in the universe?
While humans have a long history of speculating about distant worlds, for much of that time actual evidence was in...
The Download: how to fight pandemics, and a top scientist turned-advisor
2 Google has launched a new anti-terrorism content toolAltitude gives smaller platforms the ability to track, detect and remove terror...
How open-source drug discovery could help us in the next pandemic
But what would happen if we took profit out of the equation and made drug discovery a collaborative process rather...
Customer experience horizons
Customer experience (CX) is a leading driver of brand loyalty and organizational performance. According to NTT’s State of CX 2023...
The Download: cancelling out noises, and tastes like (lab-grown) chicken
The news: A new system for noise-canceling headphones lets users opt back in to certain sounds they’d like to hear,...
I tried lab-grown chicken at a Michelin-starred restaurant
A swanky restaurant in San Francisco isn’t my usual haunt for reporting on climate and energy. But I recently paid...
Noise-canceling headphones could let you pick and choose the sounds you want to hear
The technology that makes it possible, called semantic hearing, could pave the way for smarter hearing aids and earphones, allowing...
Bridging the expectation-reality gap in machine learning
There is no quick-fix to closing this expectation-reality gap, but the first step is to foster honest dialogue between teams....