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A Google Software Engineer Believes an AI Has Become Sentient. If He’s Right, How Would We Know?

Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software...

In its Greatest Biology Feat Yet, AI Decoded the Protein Complexes That House Our DNA

AI has done it again. After solving one of the grandest mysteries in biology—predicting protein structure—it decoded how proteins link up into complexes, and dreamed...

Scientists Used Human Cells to Make Self-Healing ‘Living Skin’ for Robots

Androids that are part human, part robot are a staple of science fiction. But they’re now a step closer to reality after researchers crafted...

Microsoft to Archive Music on Futuristic Slivers of Glass That Will Live 10,000 Years

War, disease, division—things aren’t looking too rosy for humanity at the moment. But thanks to Microsoft, at least we’ll be listening to Stevie Wonder...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 11)

COMPUTING Photonic Chip Performs Image Recognition at the Speed of LightCharles Q. Choi | IEEE Spectrum“In a new study, researchers have developed a photonic deep...

Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language?

A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models can produce “creative” images on-demand based on a text prompt. The likes of Imagen, MidJourney, and...

The World’s Biggest 4-Day Work Week Pilot Just Launched in the UK

Just under a year ago, a think tank called Autonomy released a report on what was at the time the world’s biggest four-day work...

Summer Could Bring Rolling Blackouts as Power Grids Get More Unstable

The rush to decarbonize our energy supply has led to some ambitious goal-setting, like President Biden’s plan to create a zero-emissions power sector by...

A Photonic Quantum Device Took Microseconds to Do a Task a Conventional Computer Would Spend 9,000 Years On

Are quantum computers overhyped? A new study in Nature says no. A cleverly-designed quantum device developed by Xanadu, a company based in Toronto, Canada, obliterated...

Quantum Chip Takes Microseconds to Do a Task a Supercomputer Would Spend 9,000 Years On

Are quantum computers overhyped? A new study in Nature says no. A cleverly-designed quantum device developed by Xanadu, a company based in Toronto, Canada, obliterated...

New CRISPR Tool Protects Against Viruses Without Making Any DNA Cuts

When CRISPR first burst onto the biotech scene, it rose to fame for its precise cutting prowess—break a target DNA strand, silence a gene....

Ultima Genomics Claims the $100 Genome and Raises $600M to Go Even Lower

In 2014, genomic sequencing giant, Illumina, announced that their new machine could sequence whole human genomes for $1,000 per genome. It was a significant...

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