MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail
Around 11 billion tons of goods, or about 1.5 tons per person worldwide, are transported by sea each year, representing about 90 percent of global trade by volume. Internationally, the...
Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the...
ChatGPT won’t generate images of ‘sexy women’ but will make images of ‘sexy men’ due to apparent ‘bug’
Rules for she but not for he. The new ChatGPT image generator will manufacture images of “sexy men” but won’t make images of “sexy women” due to an apparent software...
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for...
“An AI future that honors dignity for everyone”
Ben Vinson III, president of Howard University, made a compelling call for artificial intelligence to be “developed with wisdom,” as he delivered MIT’s annual Karl Taylor Compton Lecture on campus...
OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enough for designers and advertisers
OpenAI has released a new image generator that’s designed less for typical surrealist AI art and more for highly controllable and practical creation of visuals—a sign that OpenAI thinks its...
Chinese EV firm BYD reported $107B in revenue, beats Tesla
Chinese automaker BYD has reported over $107 billion in annual revenue, edging past Tesla as the competition between the two EV giants heats up. The Shenzhen-based company announced its full-year...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets....
AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches
The ability to generate high-quality images quickly is crucial for producing realistic simulated environments that can be used to train self-driving cars to avoid unpredictable hazards, making them safer on...
Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake
AI agents have set the tech industry abuzz. Unlike chatbots, these groundbreaking new systems operate outside of a chat window, navigating multiple applications to execute complex tasks, like scheduling meetings...
Who is bitcoin’s mysterious founder Satoshi Nakamoto?
On April 7, 2022, PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel delivered the keynote speech at the annual Bitcoin Conference in Miami. He railed against the so-called enemies of Bitcoin, like Warren Buffett...
To Truly Fix Siri, Apple May Have to Backtrack on One Key Thing—Privacy
Still, Apple was entranced by the possibilities, as was then-CEO Steve Jobs. “This was Steve’s last deal,” Siri cofounder Tom Gruber told WIRED. “He was personally involved in all stages...
At the core of problem-solving
As director of the MIT BioMicro Center (BMC), Stuart Levine ’97 wholeheartedly embraces the variety of challenges he tackles each day. One of over 50 core facilities providing shared resources...
When you might start speaking to robots
Last Wednesday, Google made a somewhat surprising announcement. It launched a version of its AI model, Gemini, that can do things not just in the digital realm of chatbots and...
Four tips for a healthy social media experience
Don’t want to ditch social media, but feel like it’s taking a toll on your mental health? You might not have to choose. New research from the University of British...
