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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 »

The Download: the AI Hype Index, and spotting machine-written text

Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solve It’s a real problem, from a climate perspective at least, that burgers taste good, and so do chicken sandwiches and cheese and just... Read more »

Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solve

It’s a real problem, from a climate perspective at least, that burgers taste good, and so do chicken sandwiches and cheese and just about anything that has butter in it. It can... Read more »

Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source

SynthID introduces additional information at the point of generation by changing the probability that tokens will be generated, explains Kohli.  To detect the watermark and determine whether text has been generated by... Read more »

What do jumping spiders find sexy? How DIY tech is offering insights into the animal mind.

The raccoon smart box Why are raccoons so good at city living? One theory is that it’s because they’re flexible thinkers. To test this idea, UC Berkeley cognitive ecologist Lauren Stanton adapted... Read more »

The Download: introducing the Food issue

What are we going to eat? It is the eternal question. We humans have been asking ourselves this for as long as we have been human. The question itself can be tedious,... Read more »

Introducing: The AI Hype Index

There’s no denying that the AI industry moves fast. Each week brings a bold new announcement, product release, or lofty claim that pushes the bounds of what we previously thought was possible.... Read more »

GMOs could reboot chestnut trees

“It’s a hard time to be a tree. But there’s some really interesting promise and hope.” It is this genetically engineered strain of chestnut that American Castanea, too, is now planting and... Read more »

Green Revolution redux

Beyond reducing time to market, modern plant engineering efforts have shifted from yield per plant—a hallmark of the Green Revolution—to yield per acre. Slotkin cites corn: “By removing what’s called shade avoidance... Read more »

A Note from the Editor

This issue is all about food, and more to the point, how we can use technology—high tech and low tech—to feed more people.  Jonathan W. Rosen explores how some in Africa are... Read more »