Are humans the only ones that can be creative?
What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence? That’s a fundamental, perhaps unanswerable, question. Is it also an obsolete one? The question today seems to be: What is the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence? We tend to think of…
How zapping the brain can supercharge meditation
Life is not just a deluge of bad news. Every day, all sorts of wonderful things are happening. People fall in love. New vaccines are getting closer to saving the roughly 500,000 children who die from malaria each year. And…
Yuval Noah Harari on whether democracy and AI can coexist
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What it means that new AIs can “reason”
In this photo illustration, the sign of OpenAl o1, the first in a planned series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, is displayed on a smartphone screen on September 13, 2024, in Suqian, Jiangsu…
The new followup to ChatGPT is scarily good at deception
OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, is trying something different. Its newly released AI system isn’t just designed to spit out quick answers to your questions, it’s designed to “think” or “reason” before responding. The result is a product — officially…
Why the SpaceX spacewalk is such a huge deal
The privately funded Polaris Dawn mission lifted off on September 10 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. | Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis completed the first privately funded spacewalk Thursday…
Apple’s new AI is magically mediocre
Apple announced that its new AI technology would be available in October at an event at its Cupertino campus on September 9, 2024. Apple Intelligence is cool, useful, and perhaps most importantly, charmingly unfinished. Unlike some other AI projects, this…
There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?
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Why Nvidia triggered a stock market freakout
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia, the world’s leading AI chip manufacturer, sparked a global stock market downturn Wednesday,…
Electric school buses are the future we deserve
In August, the Oakland Unified School District became the first major school district in the country to electrify its entire bus system. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Riding an electric school bus seems like it would be an…