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People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
Practical ML can radically improve business operations, but there’s a deployment issue.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
From AI to health and the metaverse, this year's CES promised new tech that will change lives long after the excitement of the latest TV wears off.
The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.
It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.
The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.
Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.
A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.
A unique combination of DNA and silica is the strongest known material for its density (but you’ll need a lot of it before you can build a suit from it).
Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
It could prevent sun damage and help chemical burns heal faster.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.
The reported supremacy of generative AI over human brain-power in business ideation depends on how you define “better.”
AI was key to making Moderna's COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.