Technology
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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 […]
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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.
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How AI Can Prompt Your Inner Artist
A cognitive scientist on the pleasures of generative image programs.
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Will Neurotech Force Us to Update Human Rights?
One question for Nita Farahany, a philosopher at Duke University.
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Don’t Worry If Your Kids Aren’t Polite to Alexa
The ubiquitous AI assistants are gathering huge amounts of data on them.
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AI Is Terrible at Detecting Misinformation. It Doesn’t Have to Be
A look at Elon Musk’s predicament at Twitter, and how AI might help.
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Making Sense of Big Ocean Data
Ocean conservation science is experiencing a data explosion—but can we utilize it properly?
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We’ve Got News for You About Supercharging Your Brain
Today’s brain-computer interfaces perform medical miracles. Beyond the clinic is another story.
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A New Doorway to the Brain
Neuroscientists can now explore the “wild west” in our heads in incredible detail—a boon to medicine and understanding what makes us tick.
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The Chess Cheat in the 21st Century
If only the 18th-century hoaxer could see his “Mechanical Turk” now.
