Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
“As long as we effectively subsidize fossil fuels by allowing them to use the atmosphere as a waste dump, we...
The Download: safer space travel, and generative AI in video games
Long-distance space travel can wreak havoc on human health. There’s radiation and microgravity to contend with, as well as the...
Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer?
Whether people are going into space as tourists, employees, scientists, or research subjects, figuring out how to send them safely...
Mira Murati’s Departure Is the Latest Drama at OpenAI
More high-level departures caught some at the high-flying A.I. start-up off guard, as the company seeks to raise billions to...
The Download: a CRISPR patent battle, and the promise of tiny AI
In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common for lawyers to try to...
Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island
That nuclear power plant is typically associated with a very specific event. One of its reactors, Unit 2, suffered a...
Mira Murati, Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, to Leave Company
Mira Murati, the chief technology officer, and two others are leaving as leaders including Sam Altman work to transform the...
Rethinking ‘Checks and Balances’ for the A.I. Age
A project at Stanford points to the need for institutional innovation, especially in government, to increase the odds that A.I....
Want AI that flags hateful content? Build it.
The challenge asks for two different models. The first, a task for those with intermediate skills, is one that identifies...
Roundtables: Putting AI’s Climate Impact Into Perspective
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
Behind OpenAI’s Audacious Plan to Make A.I. Flow Like Electricity
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, is talking to the United Arab Emirates, Asian chipmakers and U.S. officials to expand the...
Why OpenAI Is Trying to Raise So Much Money?
The San Francisco A.I. start-up believes there is not enough computing power on Earth to build the artificial intelligence it...
Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe
The chief intellectual-property attorney at the University of California, Randi Jenkins, confirmed the plan to revoke the two patents but...
A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones
Ai2 achieved this by getting human annotators to describe the images in the model’s training data set in excruciating detail...
The Download: how to connect the US’s grids, and OpenAI’s new voice mode
Michael Skelly hasn’t learned to take no for an answer. For much of the last 15 years, the energy entrepreneur...
OpenAI released its advanced voice mode to more people. Here’s how to get it.
The update also adds new voices. Shortly after the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI was criticized for the similarity between the...
An AI script editor could help decide what films get made in Hollywood
Today it launched a new tool called Callaia, which amateur writers and professional script readers alike can use to analyze...
The Download: AI lessons for the US election, and our climate tech list is coming
We hope you’ll take a look, ideally learn something new, and perhaps even leave feeling encouraged. Read the full story....
Coming soon: Our 2024 list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
The work these companies are doing is needed now more than ever. Global warming appears to be accelerating. The oceans...
What the US can learn from the role of AI in other elections
When the generative-AI boom first kicked off, one of the biggest concerns among pundits and experts was that hyperrealistic AI...