Technology
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The Wisdom of a Brainless Robot
How a soft-bodied machine uses physical intelligence to navigate.
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Is That Really Your Boss on the Phone?
Deepfakes are taking old scams to the next level.
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Building Superintelligence Is Riskier Than Russian Roulette
Why the “hard problem” of AI—controlling our superintelligent creations—is impossible.
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Requiem for the Foghorn
Across the US and around the world, foghorns have disappeared from the coastal landscape.
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Why E-Bikes Catch Fire
The dangerous chemistry of cheaply made lithium batteries.
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A Scientific Breakthrough in Noise Reduction
Ionized air and wires may take headphones to the next level.
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Human Super-Recognizers See Faces Better Than AI
Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
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Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans
Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills.
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How We’re Becoming Bigger Jerks Online
Face-altering images are encouraging selfish behavior.
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What to Wear in the Next Pandemic
Could a spacesuit designed for Mars help us quarantine on Earth?
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AI Shouldn’t Decide What’s True
Experts on why trusting artificial intelligence to give us the truth is a foolish bargain.
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The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses
From speaking flowers to smart watches, we’ve been seeking to understand ourselves with data since the 19th century.
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Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea
Our minds haven’t evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness.
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What Does ChatGPT Know About Science?
AI-powered chatbots get science facts basically right, but their reasoning is still shallow.
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Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We’re Saying?
One question for David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and president of the Santa Fe Institute for complexity science.
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Even Machine Brains Need Sleep
Without some downtime, artificial neural networks become catastrophically forgetful.
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Cultivating Joy in Science
A chemist and educational activist on helping Black girls believe in themselves.
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The Ghostwriter
In a work of fiction, holograms and memory collide.
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The Interim CEO of Black Girls CODE on the Importance of Self-Belief
For the month of February, the Nautilus Marketing Team will feature interviews with organizations and institutions working to increase opportunities for young Black people to imagine and succeed in STEM career paths—and we’ll donate 10 percent of all new member subscriptions toward their initiatives.Black representation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields totaled only […]
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Why Science Needs Diversity
Wilbur Walters’ mission: To use the platform of STEM to transform communities.
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Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning
“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
