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The Download: ChatGPT in schools, and deep sea mining

Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking tool that made it laughably easy to cheat.  Schools swiftly blocked access... Read more »

These deep-sea “potatoes” could be the future of mining for renewable energy

Because of the impressive array of metals they contain, at least one company has likened each nodule to a battery in a rock. That’s why over the past decade, companies have begun... Read more »

ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it

Teachers are asking students to use ChatGPT to generate text on a topic and then getting them to point out the flaws. In one example that a colleague of Stansbury’s shared at... Read more »

How a Chinese battery company powers Turkey’s home-grown EVs

I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be spending my time outside petting the street cats of Istanbul, I’m a... Read more »

The Green Future Index 2023

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

The Download: Turkey’s EV ambitions, and making AI fair for artists

2023 is a big year for Turkey, with both the republic’s 100-year-anniversary and a high-stakes election coming up. It’s also the year when the country is set to start shipping its first... Read more »

China Report: How a Chinese battery company powers Turkey’s home-grown EVs

I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be spending my time outside petting the street cats of Istanbul, I’m a... Read more »

Digital simulations open up real-world possibilities

Peter: Yeah, I know. That is indeed a big question and we get that question a lot nowadays, particularly because of crypto and cryptocurrency and the whole notion of proof of work... Read more »

The Download: Russia’s crumbling tech industry, and an AI security disaster

In the months after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, Russia saw a mass exodus of IT workers. According to government figures, about 100,000 IT specialists left Russia in 2022, or... Read more »

The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song

“Causal reasoning is critical for machine learning,” says Nailong Zhang, a software engineer at Meta. Meta is using causal inference in a machine-learning model that manages how many and what kinds of... Read more »