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Get ready to fight misinformation in 2024. Eric Schmidt has advice.
One of the biggest areas to watch, of course, will be generative AI, particularly how it changes social media,…
The hunter-gatherer groups at the heart of a microbiome gold rush
The first step to finding out is to catalogue what microbes we might have lost. To get as close to ancient…
Eric Schmidt has a 6-point plan for fighting election misinformation
But that’s taken agency away from users (we don’t control what we see) and has instead left us with…
The Download: beyond CRISPR, and OpenAI’s superalignment findings
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Vertex developed a CRISPR cure. Now it wants a pill to treat sickle-cell…
Such drawbacks are why a pill to alleviate sickle-cell, if developed, could sweep CRISPR from the playing…
Needle-free covid vaccines are (still) in the works
The vaccine outlined in the recent Nature paper is meant to be inhaled. It is a subunit vaccine, meaning it…
Now we know what OpenAI’s superalignment team has been up to
OpenAI's approach to the superalignment problem.OPENAI The researchers point out that the problem is hard to…
Google DeepMind used a large language model to discover new math
FunSearch (so called because it searches for mathematical functions, not because it’s fun) continues a streak…
The Download: Joy Buolamwini on AI, and Meta’s beauty filter lawsuit
1 Google’s AI search tool could upend the internetPublishers in particular fear it could take a sledgehammer to…
This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes
While other types of AI, such as large language models, are trained on huge repositories of data scraped from…