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 Four trends that changed AI in 2023

Existential risk has become one of the biggest memes in AI. The hypothesis is that one day we will build an AI that is far smarter than humans, and this could lead to grave... Read more »

Navigating a shifting customer-engagement landscape with generative AI

A strategic imperative Generative AI’s ability to harness customer data in a highly sophisticated manner means enterprises are accelerating plans to invest in and leverage the technology’s capabilities. In a study titled... Read more »

Developing climate solutions with green software

There’s several standards that we’ve been focusing on in the Green Software Foundation, one’s called the SEI, which is a software carbon intensity specification. Again, to prove it as an ISO standard,... Read more »

The Download: a microbiome gold rush, and Eric Schmidt’s election misinformation plan

Over the last couple of decades, scientists have come to realize just how important the microbes that crawl all over us are to our health. But some believe our microbiomes are in... Read more »

Get ready to fight misinformation in 2024. Eric Schmidt has advice.

One of the biggest areas to watch, of course, will be generative AI, particularly how it changes social media, political campaigning, and the fight over election misinformation. This confluence of new tech... Read more »

Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolved math problem

FunSearch (so called because it searches for mathematical functions, not because it’s fun) continues a streak of discoveries in fundamental math and computer science that DeepMind has made using AI. First AlphaTensor... Read more »

The hunter-gatherer groups at the heart of a microbiome gold rush

The first step to finding out is to catalogue what microbes we might have lost. To get as close to ancient microbiomes as possible, microbiologists have begun studying multiple Indigenous groups. Two... Read more »

Eric Schmidt has a 6-point plan for fighting election misinformation

But that’s taken agency away from users (we don’t control what we see) and has instead left us with conversations full of hate and discord, as well as a growing epidemic of... Read more »

The Download: beyond CRISPR, and OpenAI’s superalignment findings

Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem The news: Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics.... Read more »

Vertex developed a CRISPR cure. It’s already on the hunt for something better.

Such drawbacks are why a pill to alleviate sickle-cell, if developed, could sweep CRISPR from the playing field. A pill version could also resolve a brewing moral dilemma: Vertex so far has... Read more »