Google’s new tool lets large language models fact-check their responses
As long as chatbots have been around, they have made things up. Such “hallucinations” are…
Chatbots can persuade people to stop believing in conspiracy theories
The internet has made it easier than ever before to encounter and spread conspiracy theories.…
Neuroscientists and architects are using this enormous laboratory to make buildings better
Have you ever found yourself lost in a building that felt impossible to navigate? Thoughtful…
The Download: conspiracy-debunking chatbots, and fact-checking AI
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Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov hates going to the front line. The risks terrify him. “I’m really…
Meet 2024’s climate innovators under 35
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The Download: Ukraine’s drone defenses, and today’s climate heroes
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The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Google says it’s made a quantum computing breakthrough that reduces errors
Google researchers claim to have made a breakthrough in quantum error correction, one that could…
Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries
I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before…