Machine Learning

Machine Learning

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Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
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These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
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To hallucinate means you must first perceive.
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Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
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Practical ML can radically improve business operations, but there’s a deployment issue.
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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
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IBM veteran Daniel Sabbah learned from experience how to lead through the challenges of demand and innovation.
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Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
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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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A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.
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Analog could serve as "always-on" computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.
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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.
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AI was key to making Moderna's COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
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Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.
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Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.
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Interventions can make the most difference when Alzheimer’s is detected early.
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AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
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Your heart rate reveals your brain activity, which in turn can predict hit songs — and maybe stock performance, as well.
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Sophia, the humanoid robot, is not just mirroring emotions; she's leading a revolution in emotional intelligence.
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It's like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
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Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
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Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
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The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
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Data scientists first gained prominence by making us click on ads — now the profession spans a multiverse.
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The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.
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A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
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The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.
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To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
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It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.