The Download: AI doppelgängers in the workplace, and using lidar to measure climate disasters
—James O’Donnell Digital clones—AI models that replicate a specific person—package together a few technologies that have been around for a ...
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Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use
“We’re not comfortable revealing that for various reasons,” Dean told me on our call. The total number is an abstract ...
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RFK Jr’s plan to improve America’s diet is missing the point
“Medical schools understand the critical role that nutrition plays in preventing, managing, and treating chronic health conditions, and incorporate significant ...
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The Download: Humans in space, and India’s thorium ambitions
One more thing How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime Tokelau, a string of three isolated ...
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The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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The Download: introducing: the Security issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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The AI Hype Index: AI-designed antibiotics show promise
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary ...
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Recent books from the MIT community
Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal GoodBy Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the ...
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How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion
“We are talking about over the airport, over taxiways, over runways,” Suffolk County’s chief deputy sheriff, Chris Brockmeyer, told local ...
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How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters
“They give us a lay of the land,” he says. “This is what a particular region has been like at ...
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