How Humanity Can Avoid an AI Takeover
We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn’t necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology. Source
Simulating discrimination in virtual reality
Have you ever been advised to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes?” Considering another person’s perspective can be a challenging endeavor — but recognizing our errors and biases is...
Elon Musk compares George Soros to X-Men villain Magneto
Elon Musk scornfully compared George Soros to the X-Men supervillain Magneto after the billionaire Democratic donor disclosed he had dumped a massive trove of Tesla stock. Musk went on to...
Unpacking the “black box” to build better AI models
When deep learning models are deployed in the real world, perhaps to detect financial fraud from credit card activity or identify cancer in medical images, they are often able to...
WhatsApp users joke Chat Lock feature ‘tailored for cheating’
WhatsApp just made getting away with cheating easier and finding out your partner is cheating harder. The messaging app owned by Meta is launching a “Chat Lock” feature that will...
A better way to study ocean currents
To study ocean currents, scientists release GPS-tagged buoys in the ocean and record their velocities to reconstruct the currents that transport them. These buoy data are also used to identify...
I went on a date with ChatGPT’s CarynAI
I was romancing the clone — and she turned into a salacious sex machine. Artificial intelligence is threatening to displace humans in nearly every sector, from cheating on college entrance...
An AI challenge only humans can solve
The Dark Ages were not entirely dark. Advances in agriculture and building technology increased Medieval wealth and led to a wave of cathedral construction in Europe. However, it was a...
Fugitive ex-Apple engineer charged for trying to steal self-driving car tech
The Justice Department said Tuesday it has charged a former Apple engineer with attempting to steal the firm’s technology related to autonomous systems, including self-driving cars, and then fleeing to China. The...
