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Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

Today, innovation agencies and educational institutions still continue to sell design thinking to individuals, corporations, and organizations. In 2015, IDEO even created its own “online school,” IDEO U, with a bank of... Read more »

ChatGPT is everywhere. Here’s where it came from

1980s–’90s: Recurrent Neural Networks ChatGPT is a version of GPT-3, a large language model also developed by OpenAI.  Language models are a type of neural network that has been trained on lots... Read more »

Out with the old and in with the “new IT”

But the human baby does not learn to recognize a cat this way. The babies, they go out, see a cat or two, and then they know what a cat looks like.... Read more »

Building the backbone for innovation, speed and thriving humanity

“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 »