Investing in AI to build next-generation infrastructure
The demand for new and improved infrastructure across the world is not being met. The…
Showing AI users diversity in training data can boost perceived fairness and trust
While artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as home assistants, search engines or large language models…
How refrigeration ruined fresh food
Before you buy orange juice, it probably waited, for as long as two years, in…
Would you trust AI to mediate an argument?
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The Download: beyond freezing food, and AI mediation
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The Download: food from thin air, and finding new materials
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
The race to find new materials with AI needs more data. Meta is giving massive amounts away for free.
Meta is releasing a massive data set and models, called Open Materials 2024, that could…
Azalea: a science-fiction story
“This is simply a question of right and wrong.” “You can’t deny the costs, though.…
Transforming software with generative AI
Generative AI’s promises for the software development lifecycle (SDLC)—code that writes itself, fully automated test…
AI could help people find common ground during deliberations
Reaching a consensus in a democracy is difficult because people hold such different ideological, political,…