Europe Union is cracking down on Big Tech
Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online lives change. People in the 27-nation European Union can alter some of what shows up when they search, scroll, and share on the biggest social...
AI Can’t Read Books. It’s Reviewing Them Anyway
Now that we’ve all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. Yes, they can write. But their prose doesn’t explode in the mind like the...
Scientists found 1,140 AI bots on X creating fake profiles
Scientists revealed in a study last month that X, formerly known as Twitter, has a real bot problem, with about 1,140 artificial intelligence-powered accounts that “post machine-generated content and steal...
How to compare a noisy quantum processor to a classical computer
Posted by Sergio Boixo and Vadim Smelyanskiy, Principal Scientists, Google Quantum AI Team A full-scale error-corrected quantum computer will be able to solve some problems that are impossible for classical...
Roblox ‘illegally facilitated child gambling’: lawsuit
Roblox, the online video game maker of popular hits such as “Murder Mystery 2,” “Adopt Me,” and “Slap Battles” is being sued by the parents of two minors who allege...
Supporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected three new research projects that will receive support from the initiative. The research projects aim to accelerate progress...
Teaching language models to reason algorithmically
Posted by Hattie Zhou, Graduate Student at MILA, Hanie Sedghi, Research Scientist, Google Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-3 and PaLM, have shown impressive progress in recent years, which...
Why Sam Bankman-Fried likely won’t get Adderall while locked up in Brooklyn jail
Jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will likely have to survive without access to Adderall while behind bars at the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, according to federal prison guidelines....
Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
Cloud computing providers are very aware that their customers are struggling for capacity. Surging demand has “caught the industry off guard a bit,” says Chetan Kapoor, a director of product...
