The real danger isn’t that machines will act without oversight; it’s that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually “thinking.” Thankfully, science may offer a way forward. Read the... Read more »
That has changed. The machines are yet unbuilt, but the money is flowing: Companies and investors put $6.1 billion into humanoid robots in 2025 alone, four times what was invested in 2024. ... Read more »
Brand is right, too, that maintainers haven’t gotten the laurels they deserve. Over the past few decades, scholars have shown that work from oiling tools to replacing worn parts to updating code... Read more »
At Ensemble, the strategy for addressing this challenge is knowledge distillation. The systematic conversion of expert judgment and operational decisions into machine-readable training signals. In health-care revenue cycle management, for example, systems... Read more »
SLMs are purpose-built for the needs of the department or agency that will use them. The data is stored securely outside the model, and is only accessed when queried. Carefully engineered prompts... Read more »
This “intention gap” between AI systems and human operators is precisely why we hesitate to deploy frontier black-box AI in civilian health care or air traffic control, and why its integration into... Read more »
6 The public backlash against data centers is intensifying in the US Protests and litigation are blocking projects. (CNBC) + One potential solution? Putting them in space. (MIT Technology Review) 7 Five-minute EV charging is becoming a... Read more »
Whatever, exactly, is happening behind the scenes, many in the industry are nervous, says Wil Burns, Co-Director of the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University. People viewed the company as... Read more »
Still, I recognize that living in harmony with nature sounds like a mushy idea. I was therefore stoked to participate in a meeting in Oxford, UK, that sought to build more precise... Read more »
Other, similarly nifty A/B tests followed. One was led by David Luther, a biologist at George Mason University (who also worked with Phillips on the covid-19 study in San Francisco). In 2015,... Read more »