Celebrating the impact of IDSS
The “interdisciplinary approach” is something that has been lauded for decades for its ability to break down silos and create new integrated approaches to research. For Munther Dahleh, founding director...
Where Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins
In theory, these cryptographic standards ensure that if a professional photographer snaps a photo for, say, Reuters and that photo is distributed across Reuters international news channels, both the editors commissioning...
Virgin Galactic completes final test flight before launching paying customers to space
Virgin Galactic completed what is expected to be its final test flight Thursday before taking paying customers on brief trips to space, marking what the space tourism company described as...
Linda Yaccarino pushed NBCUniversal to buy Twitter years ago: sources
Elon Musk’s hire of Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s new CEO came after a whirlwind courtship — but the ad guru has had her sights on the struggling social network for...
Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets
Posted by Vincent Cohen-Addad and Alessandro Epasto, Research Scientists, Google Research, Graph Mining team Clustering is a central problem in unsupervised machine learning (ML) with many applications across domains in...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets FDA approval for human test of brain implants
Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received Food and Drug Administration’s approval to launch the first-in-human clinical study. Several times since 2019, billionaire Elon Musk has predicted his...
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Microsoft director of communications Caitlin Roulston says the company is blocking suspicious websites and improving its systems to filter prompts before they get into its AI models. Roulston did not...
Ted Cruz is preparing his own TikTok clampdown: sources
Sen. Ted Cruz is among a handful of US lawmakers who are preparing a fresh push to clamp down on TikTok — and Apple and Google may figure into the...
Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI
In the early 20th century, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung came up with the concept of the shadow—the human personality’s darker, repressed side, which can burst out in unexpected ways. Surprisingly,...
Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working
Despite their enormous size and power, today’s artificial intelligence systems routinely fail to distinguish between hallucination and reality. Autonomous driving systems can fail to perceive pedestrians and emergency vehicles right...
Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of human tasks, including opening...
Using AI, scientists find a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections
Using an artificial intelligence algorithm, researchers at MIT and McMaster University have identified a new antibiotic that can kill a type of bacteria that is responsible for many drug-resistant infections....
Google Research at I/O 2023
Posted by James Manyika, SVP Google Research and Technology & Society, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research Wednesday, May 10th was an exciting day for the...
Modernizing the automotive industry: Creating a seamless customer experience
The automotive industry is rapidly changing as connected and autonomous vehicles — enabled by AI and machine learning — are transforming transportation to create a seamless and personalized customer experience....
OpenAI could ‘cease operating’ in Europe over AI laws: Altman
OpenAI boss Sam Altman said that his artificial intelligence-powered company could “cease operating” in the European Union if it’s unable to comply with the EU’s AI laws. Speaking to reporters...
