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The Download: animal welfare gets AGI-pilled, and the White House unveils…
Some brainstormed using custom agents in advocacy work, while others pitched cultivating meat with AI tools.…
The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions
But on Thursday I came across new research that deserves your attention: A group at Stanford that focuses on…
The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI
AI has injected a shot of optimism. Like much of Silicon Valley, many attendees at the summit subscribe to the…
OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher
“I think it’s going to be a long time before we can really be like, okay, this problem is solved,” he says.…
The Download: OpenAI is building a fully automated researcher, and a…
By September, the company plans to build “an autonomous AI research intern” that can take on a small number of…
Mind-altering substances are (still) falling short in clinical trials
This phenomenon can distort the results of psychedelic drug trials. While a placebo in a traditional…
The Download: Quantum computing for health, and why the world doesn’t…
The prize will go to the quantum computer that can solve real health care problems that conventional…
A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers are useful for…
Unfortunately, those patterns are hidden inside data sets so large that they overwhelm classical solvers.…
Why the world doesn’t recycle more nuclear waste
My reporting also helped answer another question that was lingering in my brain: Why doesn’t the world recycle…
What do new nuclear reactors mean for waste?
On the other hand, some other reactor designs could produce a smaller volume of spent fuel, but that isn’t…