The Download: how to break up with coal, and AI’s false climate promises
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How the cost of living crisis and games industry turmoil could hurt Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro release
In late November 2020, I was one of those people standing in line—or rather, refreshing…
Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
In an essay last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argued that the accelerating…
The Download: a CRISPR patent battle, and the promise of tiny AI
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Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer?
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The Download: safer space travel, and generative AI in video games
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A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), a research nonprofit, is releasing a family of…
Roundtables: Putting AI’s Climate Impact Into Perspective
Recorded on September 25, 2024 Putting AI’s Climate Impact Into Perspective Speakers: David Rotman, Editor-at-large,…
Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe
In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common…
Want AI that flags hateful content? Build it.
Humane Intelligence, an organization focused on evaluating AI systems, is launching a competition that challenges…