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How electricity could clean up transportation, steel, and even fertilizer

I’m starting to feel that way about “Electrify everything,” a common refrain in climate circles. The basic concept is a simple one: there are some parts of our world that are largely... Read more »

What’s next for the world’s fastest supercomputers

To use Frontier, approved scientists log in to the supercomputer remotely, submitting their jobs over the internet. To make the most of the machine, Oak Ridge aims to have around 90% of... Read more »

New approaches to the tech talent shortage

A 2021 Gartner survey of IT executives shows that a majority — 64% — believe the ongoing tech talent shortage is the most significant barrier to the adoption of emerging technologies. By... Read more »

Make Machine Learning Work for You

IBM reveals that nearly half of the challenges related to AI adoption focus on data complexity (24%) and difficulty integrating and scaling projects (24%). While it may be expedient for marketers to... Read more »

Moving data through the supply chain with unprecedented speed

Driving adoption of this phygital connection are technological enablement and standards for interoperability. Standards define a common language between technologies and can make data more technology agnostic. These standards, along with evolving... Read more »

The Download: AI movie soundtracks, and DeepMind’s disease prediction tool

1 Google’s Bard AI is everywhere nowIn your Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs accounts, at least. (NYT $)+ It’s a practical demonstration of how AI can boost Google’s biggest products. (Bloomberg $)+... Read more »

The deepfake avatars who want to sell you everything

But with large language models and text-to-speech technologies, these AI streamers can say whatever you want them to say—meaning they can speak other languages too. Just last week a new AI-translation product... Read more »

DeepMind is using AI to pinpoint the causes of genetic disease

With the rise of gene sequencing, doctors can now decode people’s genomes and then scour the DNA data for possible culprits. Sometimes, the cause is clear, like the mutation that leads to... Read more »

A Disney director tried—and failed—to use an AI Hans Zimmer to create a soundtrack

But a longer piece in the style of Hans Zimmer is significantly more complex to generate than a simple piano melody with one instrument, he adds. AI systems are limited by what... Read more »

The Download: AI to cure diseases, and China’s deepfake influencers

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are cofounders and co-CEOs of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Cells are key to understanding disease—yet so much about them remains unknown. We do not know, for example,... Read more »