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“Normally, we wouldn’t think of tablets as life-saving equipment, but when emergency hospitals needed to be built during the Covid-19 outbreak, these devices and innovative infrastructure played a critical role,” says Yuanqing.... Read more »

The Download: inside our chaotic brains, and small nuclear reactors

Podcast: The AI in the newsroom OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has taken the internet by storm since it launched late last year. The latest episode of our award-winning podcast, In Machines We Trust,... Read more »

How Telegram groups can be used by police to find protesters

3. Baidu, China’s leading search engine and AI company, is planning to release its own version of ChatGPT in March. (Bloomberg $) 4. The past three months should have been the busiest... Read more »

We were promised smaller nuclear reactors. Where are they?

“It is a big deal and should be celebrated as a milestone,” Buongiorno says. However, he says, minimizing what’s still to come would be a mistake: “Nothing is easy and nothing is... Read more »

Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos.

Ghuman, Wang, and their colleagues turned to people who were undergoing brain surgery for epilepsy. Some people with severe or otherwise untreatable epilepsy opt to have the small parts of their brain... Read more »

The Download: generative AI for video, and detecting AI text

The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video What’s happened: Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has released an... Read more »

Why detecting AI-generated text is so difficult (and what to do about it)

This tool is OpenAI’s response to the heat it’s gotten from educators, journalists, and others for launching ChatGPT without any ways to detect text it has generated. However, it is still very... Read more »

The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video

Set up in 2018, Runway has been developing AI-powered video-editing software for several years. Its tools are used by TikTokers and YouTubers as well as mainstream movie and TV studios. The makers... Read more »

The Download: trapped by grief algorithms, and image AI privacy issues

—Tate Ryan-Mosley, senior tech policy reporter I’ve always been a super-Googler, coping with uncertainty by trying to learn as much as I can about whatever might be coming. That included my father’s... Read more »

When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn’t escape it.

I am a mostly visual thinker, and thoughts pose as scenes in the theater of my mind. When my many supportive family members, friends, and colleagues asked how I was doing, I’d... Read more »