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AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery as a justification for their existence: If the technology eventually cures cancer and solves climate change, then all the carbon emissions and slop videos will have been well worth it. Already, LLMs can assist...
For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, they’d landed on a...
You’ve probably heard some version of this idea before: that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” That is to say, around 45,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens first arrived in Europe, they met members of a cousin species—the broad-browed, heavier-set Neanderthals—and, well, one thing led to...
La récente mise en garde d'un pionnier de l'IA révèle un enjeu crucial pour votre entreprise : une technologie adoptée trop vite, sans stratégie, peut...
Un vidéaste scientifique vient de reproduire des expériences de physique quantique depuis chez lui, avec un simple détecteur gamma portable et une capsule radioactive récupérée dans un vieux détecteur de fumée. Et les résultats sont plutôt convaincants. De la physique quantique dans un garage...
« Les gourous de l’IA » (8/12). S’il s’inquiète d’éventuels mésusages par des acteurs malveillants ou du risque d’un emballement incontrôlé des systèmes, le Prix Nobel de chimie 2024 considère l’IA comme révolutionnaire et ambitionne de s’en servir pour accélérer les découvertes scientifiques.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” Life Biosciences, a small Boston startup founded by Harvard professor and...
When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk said he hasn’t put much time into the problem but suspects it is “very solvable” and that when scientists discover why we age, it’s going to be something “obvious.” Not long after, the...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. All anyone wants to talk about at Davos is AI and Donald Trump —Mat Honan, MIT Technology Review’s editor in chief At Davos this year Trump is...
A number of startups and universities that are building AI scientists to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemists, have just won extra funding from the UK government agency that funds moonshot R&D. The competition, set up by ARIA (Advanced Research and...
Quand deux Nobel se disputent sur les retombées potentielles de l’intelligence artificielle, c’est le signe que les investissements massifs en cours sont risqués, relève, dans sa chronique, l’économiste Jean Pisani-Ferry. Or, à travers son épargne, l’Europe est elle aussi exposée à ce risque.
Ever since nuclear fusion was discovered in the 1930s, scientists have wondered if we could somehow replicate and harness the phenomenon behind starlight—the smashing together of hydrogen atoms to form helium and a stupendous amount of clean energy. Fusing hydrogen would yield 200 million times...