Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
I met Geoffrey Hinton at his house on a pretty street in north London just…
How chemists could give new life to old wind turbine blades
Wind turbines are crucial for addressing climate change, but when they’ve reached the end of…
The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s AI fears, and decoding our thoughts
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google
Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and engineering fellow at Google and a pioneer of deep learning…
Undercover in the metaverse
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power,…
The flawed logic of rushing out extreme climate solutions
Early last year, entrepreneur Luke Iseman says, he released a pair of sulfur dioxide–filled weather…
The future of generative AI is niche, not generalized
The relentless hype surrounding generative AI in the past few months has been accompanied by…
How an undercover content moderator polices the metaverse
When Ravi Yekkanti puts on his headset to go to work, he never knows what…
How bugs and chemicals in your poo could give away exactly what you’ve eaten
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it…
A chatbot that asks questions could help you spot when it makes no sense
AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard are excellent at crafting sentences that sound like…