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Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.

We do know that exosomes are tiny particles that bud off from cells and that their contents can vary hugely, depending on the source of the cell (some popular options include human... Read more »

AI will add to the e-waste problem. Here’s what we can do about it.

E-waste is the term to describe things like air conditioners, televisions, and personal electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops when they are thrown away. These devices often contain hazardous or... Read more »

The Download: an interview with Palmer Luckey, and AI-assisted math tutors

Artificial intelligence could help. A new tool could improve the one-on-one tutoring sometimes used to supplement class instruction in these schools, by letting tutors tap into more experienced teachers’ expertise during virtual... Read more »

Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality

Though few would bet against Luckey’s expertise in the realm of mixed reality, few observers share his optimism for the IVAS program. They view it, thus far, as an avalanche of failures. ... Read more »

This AI system makes human tutors better at teaching children math

Researchers from Stanford University developed an AI system calledTutor CoPilot on top of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and integrated it into a platform called FEV Tutor, which connects students with tutors virtually. Tutors and... Read more »

The Download: Wayve’s driverless ambitions, and AI models built by kids

The UK driverless-car startup Wayve is headed west. The firm’s cars learned to drive on the streets of London. But Wayve has announced that it will begin testing its tech in and... Read more »

Kids are learning how to make their own little language models

“What does it mean to have children see themselves as being builders of AI technologies and not just users?” says Shruti. The program starts out by using a pair of dice to... Read more »

Avoiding value decay in digital transformation

“Most implementations are viewed as IT projects,” says Tim Hertzig, a principal in Deloitte’s Technology practice and global product owner of Deloitte’s Ascend digital transformation solution. “These projects fail to achieve the... Read more »

Reckoning with generative AI’s uncanny valley

Mental models and antipatterns Mental models are an important concept in UX and product design, but they need to be more readily embraced by the AI community. At one level, mental models... Read more »

How Wayve’s driverless cars will meet one of their biggest challenges yet

Figuring out why the model behaves as it does tells Wayve what kinds of scenarios require extra help. Using a hyper-detailed simulation tool called PRISM-1 that can reconstruct 3D street scenes from... Read more »