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Scientists Are Reincarnating the Woolly Mammoth to Return in 4 Years
Hello, old friend.
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Rogue AI ‘could kill everyone,’ scientists warn as ChatGPT craze runs rampant
Researchers are calling rogue AI an “existential threat to humanity” that we need to regulate like nuclear weapons.
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Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft have used AI in their products for years. But OpenAI's ChatGPT is stealing the limelight, forcing them to move faster.
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How Much of Forza Motorsport Is Actually 'Built From the Ground Up?'
The phrase appeared four times in yesterday's official trailer. For a racing sim previously knocked for its repetitiveness, what does it mean?
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Advanced AI 'could kill everyone’, warn Oxford researchers
MPs told technology has become a ‘literal arms race’ for countries and area should be regulated like nuclear weapons
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Scientists Made a Liquid Metal Robot That Can Escape a Cage Like a Terminator
"It's almost T-1000-like," scientists said.
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The Earth Is Begging You to Accept Smaller EV Batteries
Electric vehicles are selling fast. But unless people change how they get around, the demand for battery materials threatens its own environmental disaster.
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Next up for CRISPR: Gene editing for the masses?
Last year, Verve Therapeutics started the first human trial of a CRISPR treatment that could benefit most people—a signal that gene editing may be ready to go mainstream.
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Inside the US facility that has cryofrozen 199 'patients' and 100 pets
This American cryonics facility has preserved "patients" in liquid nitrogen-filled tanks until a future date when technology allows them to be thawed.
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Aviation startup ZeroAvia flies largest ever hydrogen-electric aircraft
Airlines including American and United are investing in hydrogen-electric engines to help decarbonize flights.
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Here's Why OpenAI's ChatGPT Still Has A Long Way To Go
ChatGPT is the very popular AI-powered bot that can generate text on demand, but is it generating text with any depth, or are the same old biases creeping in?
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This Film Does Not Exist
How artificial intelligence can reimagine art from our past and influence our future.
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Can aging be cured? Scientists are giving it a try
Cutting-edge technologies are revealing the intricacies of human aging and sparking research into drugs to slow it, or even reverse it.
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Rate of scientific breakthroughs slowing over time: Study
The rate of ground-breaking scientific discoveries and technological innovation is slowing down despite an ever-growing amount of knowledge, according to an analysis released Wednesday of millions of research papers and patents.
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Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?
Film exploring the rise of deepfake porn, a new form of image-based sexual abuse.
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How Claude Shannon Invented the Future
Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.
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An A.I. Pioneer on What We Should Really Fear
“Some people naïvely think if we teach A.I. ‘Don’t kill people while maximizing paper-clip production,’ that will take care of it,” says Yejin Choi.
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See Spot spy? A new generation of police robots faces backlash
The LAPD plans to acquire a canine-like robot. Authorities say the technology will help, but critics worry the technology will mostly be used in poor areas.
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How artificial intelligence is helping us explore the solar system
Planetary scientists are finding creative ways to use machine learning.
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Bill Gates: 'Our grandchildren will grow up in a world that is dramatically worse off' if we don't fix climate change
In a letter published Tuesday on his personal blog, Bill Gates addresses areas he has been focusing on in the past year and what lies ahead.