It’s time to retire the term “user”
Though “user” seems to describe a relationship that is deeply transactional, many of the technological relationships in which a person would be considered a user are actually quite personal. That bein...
21 Aug 202415min
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
We've known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon was just a pinprick of light in our telescopes— a bright and curious companion ...
14 Aug 202428min
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
Despite all their runaway success, nobody knows exactly how—or why—large language models work. And that’s a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial ...
7 Aug 202417min
How ASML took over the chipmaking chessboard
Moore’s Law holds that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years or so. In essence, it means that chipmakers are always trying to shrink the transistors on a microchip...
31 Juli 202420min
Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum
AI consciousness isn’t just a devilishly tricky intellectual puzzle; it’s a morally weighty problem with potentially dire consequences. Fail to identify a conscious AI, and you might unintentionally s...
24 Juli 202432min
In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
Three years ago this week we launched this podcast on a mission to show the world how AI touches our everyday lives. It's been our great honor and privilege to make it through three seasons, a global ...
14 Aug 202327min
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
Hidden away in our voices are signals that may hold clues to how we’re doing, what we’re feeling and even what’s going on with our physical health. Now, AI systems tasked with analyzing these signals ...
17 Maj 202332min
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future with AI and satellites (Encore)
AI is used in farming in some ways you might not expect, like for tracking the health of crops—from space. We travel from test farms to labs in the second installment of our series on agriculture, AI,...
10 Maj 202320min
