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.

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

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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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

Cars

Autonomous auto racing promises safer driverless cars on the road

Autonomous racing is a testbed where competition spurs innovation and AI-controlled cars chart a course toward safer autonomous vehicles.

Madhur Behl

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Google’s AI can create a video game based on a napkin drawing

Named Genie, the AI can create a short video games from a single image. It could one day create a wide range of interactive environments.

Kevin Dickinson

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The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast – what might be next?

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.

Max Roser | Our World in Data

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Startup unveils “world’s first” complete AI software engineer

Cognition Labs has unveiled Devin, an AI software engineer that can build websites from scratch, debug code, and more.

Kristin Houser

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Climate Crisis

9 ways AI is helping tackle climate change

Existing AI systems include tools that predict weather, track icebergs, and identify pollution, all of which can help fight climate change.

Victoria Masterson

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and claims it has achieved AGI

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, claiming it has breached its agreement to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of all humanity.

Robert Chapman-Smith

A robot designed to earn trust with the word "hola" in front of it.

Robotics

Robots who share your accent are more trusted, study shows

What makes a robot seem competent and trustworthy might be different for different people.

Sam Jarman

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History

How three students wrote history by winning the Vesuvius Challenge

Thanks to the Vesuvius Challenge, we may be on the verge of the biggest literary discovery of the ancient world in decades.

Tim Brinkhof

A humanoid robot grabs a blue crate off a stack in a warehouse

Robotics

Watch: Figure’s humanoid robot just learned something new

Robotics startup Figure AI just shared a video showing its humanoid robot completing a fully autonomous “real world task.”

Kristin Houser

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Sam Altman on the future of AI

In the Davos session, "Technology in a Turbulent World," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explained where he sees AI heading.

Kate Whiting

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