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The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.
It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.
The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.
Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.
A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.
A unique combination of DNA and silica is the strongest known material for its density (but you’ll need a lot of it before you can build a suit from it).
Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
It could prevent sun damage and help chemical burns heal faster.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.
The reported supremacy of generative AI over human brain-power in business ideation depends on how you define “better.”
AI was key to making Moderna's COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.
To thrive in a rapidly changing future, we will need adaptable and diverse skill sets. Here’s where to look.
To reap the benefits of AI technologies, businesses must keep humans in the driving seat.
Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
We used to think, "That email isn’t going to write itself." But now it can, thanks to AI. And there's so much more, from coding to marketing.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
John Templeton Foundation
Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.
Subtle clues emerge ahead of the attack via changes in scent.
Interventions can make the most difference when Alzheimer’s is detected early.