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Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift... Read more »

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

That could make it valuable for neuroscientists studying the brain, says Sprague. “None of us can afford 40 hours of imaging for a new subject,” he says. “It’s something like $600 to... Read more »

The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

The researchers hope the “mindreading” tool could reveal more about how the brain works. It could also help locked-in people communicate and, incredibly, maybe even allow scientists to recreate the content of... Read more »

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan

Other teams have done this, too, and several other tools have been used to recreate images based on brain scan data. But they’re not good enough, says Irani. Say a person saw... Read more »

How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid

Large, utility-scale battery installations are coming online quickly around the world. But there’s been some pushback from communities—especially population-dense ones like NYC—because of concerns about relatively rare but high-profile battery fires. “The... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response

MIT Technology Review Narrated: smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta... Read more »

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

An OpenAI spokesperson says: “As frontier models have become more capable, we continue to evolve our security practices, but recognize a need to move faster. We know we have more work to... Read more »

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over Hugging Face, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

An OpenAI spokesperson says: “As frontier models have become more capable, we continue to evolve our security practices, but recognize a need to move faster. We know we have more work to... Read more »

The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem

Once a year, we compile a list of 10 companies that we believe have done the most, or have the best chance, to make a real dent in emissions or improve public... Read more »

Making AI an asset, not an expense

At that point, the question is no longer simply which model to consume, or which provider offers the lowest token price: It is how to run AI economically, predictably, and at sustained... Read more »