Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
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AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
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The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
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To be successful, leaders would be wise to remember that AI isn’t a replacement for people; it exists to enhance their capabilities.
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People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
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These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
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Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
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To hallucinate means you must first perceive.
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AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
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When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:
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Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
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Practical ML can radically improve business operations, but there’s a deployment issue.
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The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
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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.
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The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
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The United States is the biggest risk in 2024. Here are the other 9, explained by Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
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BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.
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What if AI could tell us we have cancer before we show a single symptom? Steve Quake, head of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, explains how AI can revolutionize science.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
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Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
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AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.
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The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.
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Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.
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The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
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Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”
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You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
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When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.
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A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.
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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).