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Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

Rapid advancements in AI today have the potential to change everything about everything. But will they? We’re exploring what will change, how, and whether we’re building digital gods or stochastic parrots.
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AI
Will AI supercharge hacking — if it hasn’t already?
The future of hacking is coming at us fast, and it isn’t clear yet whether AI will help attackers and defenders more.
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AI
No, LLMs still can’t reason like humans. This simple test reveals why.
Most AI models are incredible at taking tests but easily bamboozled by basic reasoning. “Simple Bench” shows us why.
Aerial view of a car using semi-autonomous driving automation to parallel park between two other cars. Red and green sensor indicators display the car's proximity to obstacles while guiding its reverse parking.
Automation
The rise of the semi-autonomous car
A look back at the history of driving automation and the kinds of tech we can expect to see hitting the road in the coming years.
A tool, a rival, or a collaborator?
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Series| Coded
How AI could revolutionize coffee
Could the blockchain be used to make fair trade goods live up to their promise?
AI
Can an algorithm catch a serial killer?
A self-professed data nerd, Thomas Hargrove believes everything around us is following a mathematical formula…including murder.
AI
You should start learning about artificial intelligence. Here's how.
There are a lot of different levels of artificial intelligence being applied in a lot of different ways. Here’s a…
AI
Meet the startup developing human-level artificial intelligence
The story of Vicarious’ mission to build the world’s first human-level artificial intelligence and use it to help…
Series| Challengers
Can AI solve our biggest problems?
Vicarious believes smart machines could solve virtually every problem humans can’t.
AI
This week in ideas: Beer that delivers itself, chatbots from beyond, and how to set a very strange world record
Uber’s self-driving beer truck, how a chatbot can help the grieving process, and more of our favorite stories from…
AI
This computer can write 2,000 snarky articles per second
What does it mean for the future of journalism when a computer can turn mounds of data into a cohesive narrative?
AI
Can tech giants get ahead of AI?
Companies gather to discuss impact of A.I. A possible neural lace breakthrough. And unmanned cargo ships. This is…
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