We can now use cells from dead people to create new life. But who gets to decide?
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A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing
OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of…
Meta’s game-playing AI can make and break alliances like a human
Meta has created an AI that can beat humans at an online version of Diplomacy,…
The Download: Meta’s diplomatic AI, and China’s online comment censorship
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We could run out of data to train AI language programs
Large language models are one of the hottest areas of AI research right now, with…
The US and China are pointing fingers at each other over climate change
The UN climate conference just wrapped up over the weekend after a marathon negotiating session…
The Download: China’s social credit law, and robot dog navigation
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The Chinese government’s problematic quest to judge online comments
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The Download: resurrecting mammoths, and the climate bill’s big flaw
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Watch this robot dog scramble over tricky terrain just by using its camera
When Ananye Agarwal took his dog out for a walk up and down the steps…