European Parliament votes to approve the AI Act (www.technologyreview.com)
After three years, the AI Act, the EU’s new sweeping AI law, jumped through its final bureaucratic hoop last week when the European Parliament voted to approve it.
Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos (www.technologyreview.com)
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Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)
From the article: “In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is...
The Download: tiny TikTok-style soap operas, and how algorithms change us. (www.technologyreview.com)
People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. (www.technologyreview.com)
In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right....
How hot salt could transform nuclear power (www.technologyreview.com)
When the race for fusion ground to a halt (www.technologyreview.com)
The worst technology failures of 2023 (www.technologyreview.com)
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The race to produce rare earth materials (www.technologyreview.com)
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem (www.technologyreview.com)
The researchers started by sketching out the problem they wanted to solve in Python, a popular programming language. But they left out the lines in the program that would specify how to solve it. That is where FunSearch comes in. It gets Codey to fill in the blanks—in effect, to suggest code that will solve the problem....
Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model (www.technologyreview.com)
Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone (www.technologyreview.com)
A controversial US surveillance program is up for renewal. Critics are speaking out. (www.technologyreview.com)
Huawei’s 5G chip breakthrough needs a reality check (www.technologyreview.com)
