Robots & AI

AI researcher François Chollet thought we needed a better way to measure progress on the path to AGI — so he made one.

Generative AIs start churning out nonsense when trained on synthetic data — a problem that could put a ceiling on their ability to improve.

A new kind of AI chip developed by a team of Harvard dropouts could shift the ground beneath our massive AI economy.

By painting with code and bits of data, AI artist Refik Anadol reveals surprisingly deep insights into what it means to create art.

Tim Brinkhof

DARPA just tested an autonomous tank that could help keep soldiers safe — and even more self-driving military vehicles are on the horizon.

New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Onlock Learning uses the attention-grabbing strategies that make brain-rot content virtually irresistible to package educational content.

Everything you need to know about the humanoids that will soon enter the workforce — or are in it already.

Knowledge-based workers already need to skill-up to coexist with sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies.

Juliana Guaqueta Ospina | Education Specialist | International Finance Corporation | World Economic Forum

A partnership between Moderna and OpenAI provides a real-world example of what can happen when a company leans into generative AI.

OpenAI’s most powerful AI model, GPT-4, outperformed junior doctors in deciding how to treat patients with eye problems.

An AI fighter pilot faced off against a human pilot in a “dogfight” using actual planes — a huge milestone in military automation.

AI music generators — AIs that create new music based on users’ text prompts — are lowering the bar for music creation, for better or worse.

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