The first step to finding out is to catalogue what microbes we might have lost. To get as close to ancient microbiomes as possible, microbiologists have begun studying multiple Indigenous groups. Two... Read more »

But that’s taken agency away from users (we don’t control what we see) and has instead left us with conversations full of hate and discord, as well as a growing epidemic of... Read more »

Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem The news: Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics.... Read more »

Such drawbacks are why a pill to alleviate sickle-cell, if developed, could sweep CRISPR from the playing field. A pill version could also resolve a brewing moral dilemma: Vertex so far has... Read more »

The vaccine outlined in the recent Nature paper is meant to be inhaled. It is a subunit vaccine, meaning it contains a portion of the pathogen. In this case, the subunit is... Read more »

OpenAI’s approach to the superalignment problem.OPENAI The researchers point out that the problem is hard to study because superhuman machines do not exist. So they used stand-ins. Instead of looking at how... Read more »

FunSearch (so called because it searches for mathematical functions, not because it’s fun) continues a streak of discoveries in fundamental math and computer science that DeepMind has made using AI. First AlphaTensor... Read more »

1 Google’s AI search tool could upend the internetPublishers in particular fear it could take a sledgehammer to their traffic. (WSJ $)+ OpenAI is partnering with a major publisher. (The Guardian)+ Chatbots could one day... Read more »

While other types of AI, such as large language models, are trained on huge repositories of data scraped from the internet, the same can’t be done with robots, because the data needs... Read more »