Robots & AI

A look back at the history of driving automation and the kinds of tech we can expect to see hitting the road in the coming years.

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.

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

Meta has upgraded its AI assistant, Meta AI, with a new LLM (Llama 3) and made it available in far more places.

A day after retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot, Boston Dynamics released a video debuting its all-electric, workplace-ready replacement.

Since AI is chained to linear reasoning, workplaces that embrace it will do well to have neurodivergent colleagues who reason more creatively.

Maureen Dunne

Microsoft is reportedly planning to build a $100 billion data center and supercomputer, called "Stargate," for OpenAI.

“Making stuff up” and “being creative” may be two sides of the same coin — but you have to be able to tell the difference.

Sascha Brodsky

Who is responsible for copyright violations when they're produced by generative AI? The technology is outpacing the law.

Anjana Susarla

How vulnerable is the electrical grid to a malicious attacker who destroys select substations? Google's Deep Mind can help predict the answer.

John Edward McCarthy

We’re finally starting to see what can happen when we put an advanced AI “brain” in a state-of-the-art robot “body” — and it’s remarkable.

An AI that can predict how to improve the taste of a beer could help brewers develop the next beloved brew.

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