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• Scientists developed an AI system for predicting human psychosis

  A team of European scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck institute recently developed the world's first cybernetic system for predicting psychosis onset in high-risk patients. According to the NIH, about three percent of the general population (data is US-specific) ...

  • Tristan Greene

• GPT-3 is the world's most powerful bigotry generator. What should we do about it?

  GPT-3 is, arguably, the world's most advanced text generator. It costs billions of dollars to develop, has a massive carbon footprint, and was trained by some of the world's leading AI experts using one of the largest datasets ever curated. And, in spite of all that, it's also inherently ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Microsoft partners with GM to make self-driving cars a reality

  Driverless car startup Cruise, a GM subsidiary, today announced the finalization of a two-billion dollar equity fund from primary investors Microsoft, Honda, and GM. Leading off: Microsoft's money is the big ticket item here for Cruise. While the company's valuation has skyrocketed ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists figured out how to turn black holes into power sources

  A group of scientists from Columbia University recently published a paper detailing how humanity could power an off-Earth colony by tapping into one of the universe's largest and most powerful resources: black holes. The big idea here is that a spinning black hole gives off a certain ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Stanford team behind BS gaydar AI says facial recognition can expose political orientation

  Stanford researcher Michael Kosinski, the PhD behind the infamous “Gaydar” AI, is back with another phrenology-adjacent (his team swears it's not phrenology) bit of pseudo-scientific ridiculousness. This time, they've published a paper indicating that a simple facial recognition ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms

  Everyone's always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vacation would be just to pause the clock for a bit. Who among us couldn't use a five or six month break after 2020 before we commit to an entire new calendar year? It's not you 2021; it's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Trump admin launches National AI Initiative Office

  The White House today announced the launch of its National AI Initiative Office, marking what should be President Trump's final manipulation of the country's gutted Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). According to an OSTP press release: The Office is charged with overseeing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The US Army is developing a nightmarish thermal facial recognition system

  The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Army's corporate research department, last week published a pre-print paper documenting the development of an image database for training AI to perform ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists use supercomputers and AI to determine how good (or deadly) your street drugs are

  A team of researchers from the University of Victoria have developed an AI system capable of determining the expected chemical ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 4 founders explain the biggest hurdles to flattening the climate curve in 2021

  While a lot of our career, personal, and travel plans have been put on hold this year, there’s one thing we as a society ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Here's what happened in the world of artificial intelligence in 2020

  The year 2020 was long and treacherous, but the biggest bright spot for me was the official launch of Neural. That's our ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Neural's AI predictions for 2021

  It's that time of year again! We're continuing our long-running tradition of publishing a list of predictions from AI experts ...

  • Tristan Greene