How Might AI Unlock a Better Future?

Alex Reben makes art with (and about) AI. I talked to him about what the new wave of generative models means for the future of human creativity.

Anthropogenic climate change is accelerating the hydrological cycle, causing an increase in the risk of flood-related disasters. A system that uses artificial intelligence allows the creation of reliable, global river flood forecasts, even in places where accurate local data are not available.

Regeneron Science Talent Search’s first-prize winner Achyuta Rajaram wants to improve machine learning to make it more efficient and safer.

From study design to patient recruitment, researchers are investigating ways that technology could speed up the process.

MIT’s Daniela Rus isn’t worried that robots will take over the world. Instead, she envisions robots and humans teaming up to achieve things that neither could do alone. 

Thanks to AI, Operation Warp Speed was a rare triumph for our federal bureaucracy. Now, it can help us blaze a new path to the shining city on a hill.

How communicating with whales could unsettle our basic notions of intelligence

To understand its strengths and limitations, we may need to adopt a new perspective.

New forms of AI can help us solve one of the biggest challenges the real estate sector faces—climate change.

Anderson’s experiments with language-based AI predated ChatGPT – with one machine modelled on her dead husband that her friends ‘just can’t stand.’

Large language models like ChatGPT no longer represent a categorical threat to the supremacy of homo sapiens’ sapience. They’re simply smart tools.

Embracing inclusive AI is our only chance to reshape the technological landscape.

Don’t plan to make individuals retrain for new jobs. Instead, build a society that upholds the lives of everyone.

Khan Academy has come up with a safe and accurate ChatGPT tutor. It’s also the best model we have for how to develop and implement AI for the public good.

AI models are revolutionizing weather forecasts.

A non-profit is using open-source intelligence (OSINT) to document starvation war crimes in Ukraine.

It turns out that large language models make surprisingly good research assistants for historians. Can the future of AI help reconstruct the past?

Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?

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