AI
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Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI
First, more dedicated government AI supercomputers need to be built for an array of missions ranging from classified intelligence processing…
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AI systems are getting better at tricking us
The fact that an AI model has the potential to behave in a deceptive manner without any direction to do…
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Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military
No one can make that choice for you. But I can say with confidence born of experience that such choices…
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The Download: Mapping the human brain, and a Hong Kong protest anthem crackdown
The news: A team led by scientists from Harvard and Google has created a 3D, nanoscale-resolution map of a single…
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The burgeoning field of brain mapping
The work I wrote about last year is part of the $3 billion federally funded Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative…
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Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its new ban of a popular protest song
The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, unlike…
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Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain
Many other brain atlases exist, but most provide much lower-resolution data. At the nanoscale, researchers can trace the brain’s wiring…
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The Download: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla’s EV charging meltdown
What’s new: Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures…
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Why EV charging needs more than Tesla
Cutting emissions and remaking our economy will require buckling down to deploy and maintain solutions that we already know work,…
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Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life
While the previous model, released in 2020, amazed the research community with its ability to predict proteins structures, researchers have…
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