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Americans are ready to test embryos for future college chances, survey shows

“For the foreseeable future and maybe forever, this technology is going to be available only to people who are already wealthy or are privileged in other ways,” says Meyer. “To the extent... Read more »

The Download: ChatGPT’s origins, and making cement greener

We’ve reached peak ChatGPT. Released in December as a web app by the San Francisco–based firm OpenAI, the chatbot exploded into the mainstream almost overnight.  According to some estimates, it is the... Read more »

The climate solution beneath your feet

CaCO3 (limestone) + heat ? CaO (lime) + CO2 (carbon dioxide) Making cement this way requires releasing CO2—the greenhouse gases are basically baked into the process.  Solutions One major approach to cutting... Read more »

Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

Today, innovation agencies and educational institutions still continue to sell design thinking to individuals, corporations, and organizations. In 2015, IDEO even created its own “online school,” IDEO U, with a bank of... Read more »

ChatGPT is everywhere. Here’s where it came from

1980s–’90s: Recurrent Neural Networks ChatGPT is a version of GPT-3, a large language model also developed by OpenAI.  Language models are a type of neural network that has been trained on lots... Read more »

Out with the old and in with the “new IT”

But the human baby does not learn to recognize a cat this way. The babies, they go out, see a cat or two, and then they know what a cat looks like.... Read more »

Building the backbone for innovation, speed and thriving humanity

“Normally, we wouldn’t think of tablets as life-saving equipment, but when emergency hospitals needed to be built during the Covid-19 outbreak, these devices and innovative infrastructure played a critical role,” says Yuanqing.... Read more »

The Download: inside our chaotic brains, and small nuclear reactors

Podcast: The AI in the newsroom OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has taken the internet by storm since it launched late last year. The latest episode of our award-winning podcast, In Machines We Trust,... Read more »

How Telegram groups can be used by police to find protesters

3. Baidu, China’s leading search engine and AI company, is planning to release its own version of ChatGPT in March. (Bloomberg $) 4. The past three months should have been the busiest... Read more »

We were promised smaller nuclear reactors. Where are they?

“It is a big deal and should be celebrated as a milestone,” Buongiorno says. However, he says, minimizing what’s still to come would be a mistake: “Nothing is easy and nothing is... Read more »