AI helps household robots cut planning time in half
Your brand new household robot is delivered to your house, and you ask it to make you a cup of coffee. Although it knows some basic skills from previous practice...
Mustafa Suleyman: My new Turing test would see if AI can make $1 million
AI systems are increasingly everywhere and are becoming more powerful almost by the day. But even as they become ever more ubiquitous and do more, how can we know if...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows star birth in new image
It’s the first anniversary of cosmic observations and photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA is celebrating by releasing one of its best shots yet. A new image...
The Last Word on AI and the Atom Bomb
In some ways, it’s hard to understand how this misalignment happened. We created all this by ourselves, for ourselves. True, we’re by nature “carbon chauvinists,” as Tegmark put it: We...
See the images from James Webb Space Telescope’s first year
After an astounding first year of science, the James Webb Space Telescope is just getting started as scientists are fully beginning to grasp how they can utilize the most powerful space telescope...
FTC opens probe into ChatGPT maker OpenAI
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, on claims it has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and...
‘We’re all going to die’
A prominent Silicon Valley researcher is sounding the alarm over the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, saying that the consequences for humans could be dire. “I think we’re not ready,...
Lina Khan interrogated by GOP over Big Tech regulation
The chair of the Federal Trade Commission defended her aggressive legal strategy toward the country’s biggest technology companies Thursday as House Republicans charged that the agency has become overzealous and...
A new way to look at data privacy
Imagine that a team of scientists has developed a machine-learning model that can predict whether a patient has cancer from lung scan images. They want to share this model with...
