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The future of autonomous retail stores

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Technological advancement has made it possible for retailers to gather accurate insights into customer behavior, allowing them to... Read more »

Earth is probably safe from a killer asteroid for 1,000 years

About 66 million years ago, it’s believed, the dinosaurs were wiped out in part by the impact of a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid, killing most land-based life in a matter of hours as molten... Read more »

Introducing the chief trust officer

“Trust is a clear competitive differentiator,” says Elena Kvochko, the first chief trust officer to be appointed at software company SAP. “Having a recognized awareness that this is an important function and... Read more »

The Download: catching bad content, and farming from space

Big Tech is surprisingly bad at catching, labeling, and removing harmful content. In theory, new advances in AI should improve our ability to do that. In practice, AI isn’t very good at... Read more »

Catching bad content in the age of AI

Large language models still struggle with context, which means they probably won’t be able to interpret the nuance of posts and images as well as human moderators. Scalability and specificity across different... Read more »

The Download: open vs closed AI, and Google’s uneasy demo

Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google, said out loud what many in Silicon Valley must have been whispering for weeks:... Read more »

The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last?

Like the wider open-source community, Pineau and her colleagues believe that transparency should be the norm. “One thing I push my researchers to do is start a project thinking that you want... Read more »

Why tiny viruses could be our best bet against antimicrobial resistance

Within a few decades of their discovery, they were largely abandoned in favor of antibiotics. But as antibiotics increasingly fail us, and the deadly threat of antimicrobial resistance looms large, interest in... Read more »

That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI

Three years ago, the company forced out Timnit Gebru, the co-lead of its ethical AI team, essentially over a paper that raised concerns about the dangers of large language models. Gebru’s concerns... Read more »

The Download: Google’s big bet on AI, and a new human genome map

The news: Google is stuffing powerful new AI tools into tons of its existing products and launching a slew of new ones, including a coding assistant, it announced at its annual I/O... Read more »