Robots & AI

A search bar appears in the center of a dark background, with the text "the future" typed in it. A cursor hovers over the "Search" button below the bar, which is highlighted in blue, reminiscent of advanced answer engines.
AI
Perplexity, Google, and the battle for AI search supremacy
AIs that generate answers to user queries could transform search, but only if someone can get the tech and the business model right.
Kristin Houser
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Military
How AI is rewriting Silicon Valley’s relationship with the Pentagon
Silicon Valley is warming to the Department of Defense as it works to get new AI systems developed and deployed en masse.
Kristin Houser
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AI
Ray Kurzweil explains how AI makes radical life extension possible
Life expectancy gains in developed countries have slowed in recent decades, but AI may be poised to transform medicine as we know it.
Ray Kurzweil
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Automation
Tesla’s new self-driving software throws out its old code entirely
Sascha Brodsky
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AI
How Google’s new AI could revolutionize medicine
Kristin Houser
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AI
Will generative AI change everything for filmmaking?
Kristin Houser
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CRISPR
New AI generates CRISPR proteins unlike any seen in nature
Kristin Houser
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AI
How Brilliant Labs CEO is creating a “symbiosis of humanity and artificial intelligence”
Kevin Dickinson
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AI
Why AI playing video games is a big deal
Kevin Dickinson
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AI
“Bionic eye” discovers Plato’s final resting place
Kristin Houser
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Art
“I’m not interested in reality”: AI artist Refik Anadol on creative coding, hallucinations, and the future of art
Tim Brinkhof
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Military
DARPA is testing this autonomous tank with glowing “eyes”
Kristin Houser
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Engineering
MIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office