The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing …
Right now, generative artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary may randomly appear at the top of the results whenever you do a Google search. Or you …
Instagram announced changes to its somewhat infamous algorithm, this time providing a boost to smaller, original creators. Meta, Instagram’s parent company, says it is trying to “correct” its ranking system …
Turing’s diagonalization proof is a version of this game where the questions run through the infinite list of possible algorithms, repeatedly asking, “Can this algorithm solve the problem we’d like …
There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence. Chances are you’re familiar with …
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the time, but it doesn’t matter,” Farid says. “Every once in …
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy …
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of other users. When they …
The White House has reached an agreement with major AI developers, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, to prevent the release of harmful AI models into the world. According …
Aspia Space is involved in remote sensing, using satellite sensors to track physical attributes on the ground. While most Earth observation satellites rely on optical sensors for images, these sensors …