This viral game in China reinvents hide-and-seek for the digital age
The “cat-and-mouse game,” as it’s usually referred to locally, has gone viral in China this year, drawing thousands of people...
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This company is building AI for African languages
The tool can be used on its own or integrated into existing AI tools like ChatGPT and online conversational chatbots....
The Download: what is death, and jailbreaking generative AI
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post...
The pain is real. The painkillers are virtual reality.
That’s why I was so excited to read about Smileyscope, a VR device for kids that recently received FDA clearance....
Text-to-image AI models can be tricked into generating disturbing images
Their work, which they will present at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May next year, shines a...
The Biggest Questions: What is death?
To do so, though, we need to reconsider how we conceive of and approach life and death. Rather than thinking...
The Download: defining AGI, and making sense of the complicated universe
He also took to the stage yesterday speaking to developers at Microsoft Ignite, explaining all the ways in which devs...
2023 Global Cloud Ecosystem
The cloud, fundamentally a tool for cost and resource efficiency, has long enabled companies and countries to organize around digital-first...
What’s coming next for fusion research
The aftermath After the first successful demonstration of net energy gain, “the first priority was to repeat it,” Budil said....
The Biggest Questions: Why is the universe so complex and beautiful?
This tedious cosmic landscape exists because the universe really was boring once. Shortly after the Big Bang, and for hundreds...
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...
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,...
