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The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology…
The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
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What’s next for AI and math
This year, a number of LRMs, which try to solve a problem step by step rather than spit out the first result…
The Download: Reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and…
One more thing A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?In the fall…
Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite
AI video is on another level When we tested the energy demands of various models, we found the energy required…
The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities…
One more thing Adventures in the genetic time machineAn ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed…
The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Numerous researchers whose grants were terminated didn’t respond to inquiries from MIT Technology Review or…
Fueling seamless AI at scale
Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most…
The Download: sycophantic LLMs, and the AI Hype Index
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of…
This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us
It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms. Previous research has…