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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
From AI to health and the metaverse, this year's CES promised new tech that will change lives long after the excitement of the latest TV wears off.
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The United States is the biggest risk in 2024. Here are the other 9, explained by Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.
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What if AI could tell us we have cancer before we show a single symptom? Steve Quake, head of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, explains how AI can revolutionize science.
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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.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
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Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”
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You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
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.
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.