How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth
For researchers and conservationists alike, the potential applications of machine learning are basically limitless. And Earth Species is not the only group working on decoding animal...
Meta’s News Block Causes Chaos as Canada Burns
The surrounding Charlotte County covers 1,323 square miles of territory—about twice the area of Greater London, and four times the size of New York City—with a...
AI Can’t Read Books. It’s Reviewing Them Anyway
Now that we’ve all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. Yes, they can write. But their prose doesn’t explode in...
The ‘Budget Ryan Reynolds’ Taking Bitcoin FC to the Big Leagues
A melt, a muppet, a fraud, a bungler, a Judas, a taker of bribes. A good boy, a lad, a maestro, a beauty. To the crowd...
Threads Is Rolling Out on the Web. That Just Might Save It
Threads, the text-based social network that Meta recently launched as part of Instagram, is finally on the web. Earlier this week, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg...
The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI
Models that are released under normal open source licenses, like GPT Neo from the nonprofit EleutherAI, are more fully open, the researchers say. But it is...
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
Programming is one area in which recent advances in AI have already had a considerable impact. In May 2021, GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, launched Copilot,...
Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
Cloud computing providers are very aware that their customers are struggling for capacity. Surging demand has “caught the industry off guard a bit,” says Chetan Kapoor,...
A Right-to-Repair Car Law Makes a Surprising U-Turn in Massachusetts
Who owns the data created by cars: their owners, or the companies that built them? In 2020, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved a law that began to...
Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT
Last winter, the unveiling of OpenAI’s alarmingly sophisticated chatbot sent educators into a tailspin. Generative AI, it was feared, would enable rampant cheating and plagiarism, and...