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In the past, if you were a researcher who wanted to study a specific strand of DNA or RNA, you’d have to go through the laborious process of coaxing...
The so-called “bird flu” H5N1 virus only rarely infects humans. Over the course of several decades during which it has circulated and resulted in...
When it is alleged that a scientist has manipulated data behind their published papers, there’s an important but miserable project ahead: looking...
Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of bad things keep happening to Boeing airplanes lately? Ever since the shocking January 5 incident in...
One of the most fascinating and frightening incidents in computer security history started in 2022 with a few pushy emails to the mailing list for a...
ChatGPT and its large language model (LLM) competitors that produce text on demand are very cool. So are the other fruits of the generative AI...
Last summer, I wrote about Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino, a famous “dishonesty researcher” who was suspended from Harvard after...
Here’s one fun, if disquieting, question to pose AI language models when they’re released: “Are you a conscious, thinking being?” OpenAI’s...
Last summer, I covered the saga of Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino, who was credibly accused of flagrantly fabricating data in at least...
Remember when AI art generators became widely available in 2022 and suddenly the internet was full of uncanny pictures that were very cool but...
Last week, California state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a landmark new piece of AI legislation aimed at “establishing clear,...
This past weekend I attended the latest Effective Altruism Global conference, which was held in the Bay Area, where I live. These events always have...
If you’ve used a modern AI system — whether an art generator like DALL-E or Midjourney or a language model like Llama 2 or ChatGPT — you’ve...
Four days after our daughter was born this October, we got a call from the hospital — they wanted us to take her back in right away to rerun one of...
The sight of a hole in the side of a Boeing 737 Max airplane earlier this month resurrected, among other questions, an old debate: Is it really a good...
In 2016, researchers at AI Impacts, a project that aims to improve understanding of advanced AI development, released a survey of machine learning...