Technology
283 articles-
A Reality Check on Superhuman AI
What’s missing from a bold new prediction of rapid progress in artificial intelligence. -
Color-Coding Crops for Climate Change
Novel ways to use gene-editing to make farming more sustainable. -
Why Animals Run Faster than Robots
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. -
Consciousness, Creativity, and Godlike AI
American writer Meghan O’Gieblyn on when the mind is alive. -
Can Chatbots Hold Meaningful Conversations?
Training AI to read novels might help. -
How AI Can Save the Zebras
Scanning animal patterns like bar codes boosts conservation. -
How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?
A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how you measure them. -
How Illegal Fishing Ships Hide
And how conservationists are finding them. -
How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
The key to preventing crashes is to know what you don’t know. -
Creative AIs Depend on Creative Humans
In the near future, it may be the other way around.
-
Stop Worrying About Deepfakes
Where many see the death of reality on the internet, this hacker-turned-Notre Dame professor sees communion.
-
Resurrecting an Extinct Animal as a Robot
A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement.
-
Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem
We are one step closer to fully private internet searches.
-
The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI
Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images. There may be a better alternative.
-
A Window on the Mind, Through the Ear
New earbuds can listen to your brain activity and monitor your health.
-
A Wild Idea to Protect the Great Barrier Reef
Ships carry mist-making machines that cause clouds to block the sun. It could work. -
The Wisdom of a Brainless Robot
How a soft-bodied machine uses physical intelligence to navigate. -
Is That Really Your Boss on the Phone?
Deepfakes are taking old scams to the next level. -
Building Superintelligence Is Riskier Than Russian Roulette
Why the “hard problem” of AI—controlling our superintelligent creations—is impossible. -
Requiem for the Foghorn
Across the US and around the world, foghorns have disappeared from the coastal landscape.