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These robots know when to ask for help
A new training model, dubbed “KnowNo,” aims to address this problem by teaching robots to ask for our help when…
The lucky break behind the first CRISPR treatment
The association technique hasn’t always paid off—but starting in 2007 the gene searches hit pay dirt for…
The Download: Google’s Gemini is here, and Sundar Pichai talks AI
Hype about Gemini, Google DeepMind’s long-rumored response to OpenAI’s GPT-4, has been building for months.…
How carbon removal technology is like a time machine
Imagine all carbon removal technology as one big time machine, winding the clock back on emissions. If the…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Gemini and the coming age of AI
There will be newer jobs that are created, there will be jobs which are made better, where some of the…
Google Deepmind’s new Gemini model looks amazing—but could signal…
“The model is innately more capable,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, told…
The Download: AI coding assistants, and China’s app disputes
Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah Gift…
How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made
The key idea behind Copilot and other programs like it, sometimes called code assistants, is to put the…
Chinese apps are letting public juries settle customer disputes
I’m fascinated by these experiments that give power back to the users and let them make decisions on platform…
Big Tech’s AI stranglehold, and gene-editing treatments
—By Amba Kak, Sarah Myers West and Meredith Whittaker, members of the AI Now Institute Until late November,…