3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (648+ words) AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people. But there's more to the story than the results, underpinning how difficult it is to put "creativity" in a measurable box....

2+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (535+ words) It may surprise some to learn that Polaris has a serious research, development, and testing facility. One that rivals the kinds of equipment and know-how found at many full-scale automotive manufacturers. I got a full tour of the place, along…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (453+ words) Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust before reappearing at the surface. These drastic changes erased most traces…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (422+ words) When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked audience, it made headlines " but not for the reasons its creators at Xpeng had hoped. The robot moved so…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (332+ words) An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive undertaking that will dramatically enhance our understanding of biology, and inform conservation and biodiversity restoration efforts. This work is particularly crucial because…...

3+ mon, 53+ min ago   (465+ words) At MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, a new supercomputer has arrived. TX-GAIN, capable of two AI-exaflops, fuses more than six hundred GPUs into a single, coordinated pulse of processing power. Built not just to calculate but to comprehend, it promises to accelerate…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (231+ words) But this clever filtering comes at a steep cost. Most of the energy CNNs use goes into these complex operations, which are like running a marathon through every pixel of an image. It's powerful, but not exactly efficient. As AI…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (256+ words) To find the right mix of metals for their green ammonia catalyst, scientists turned to AI. The result was a breakthrough that makes their technique of producing ammonia from air and water more efficient and much more accessible. "We selected…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (486+ words) Although AI-based restoration methods can indeed bring new life to damaged paintings, the end result is typically a digital copy of the original painting. By contrast, a new MIT technique applies reversible repairs to the physical painting itself, in the…...