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Artificial IntelligenceMagazineOpinionMay 2024

Travels with Perplexity AI

Generative search wouldn’t exist without the Internet Bob Kahn helped create

3 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceOpinion

Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

MLCommons has made benchmarks for AI performance—now it's time to measure safety

6 min read
Software Sucks, but It Doesn’t Have To
Climate TechOpinionClimate ChangeComputing

Software Sucks, but It Doesn’t Have To

How to make leaner, greener software

3 min read
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History of TechnologyMagazineOpinionMarch 2024

Sci-fi and Hi-fi

The microstory of a storyteller who delivers both

2 min read
EnergyOpinion

Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

Private utility companies are blocking new interregional transmission lines

6 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceOpinion

Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

But current regulatory trends threaten to quash transparency and competition in AI

7 min read
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TransportationMagazineOpinionClimate TechFebruary 2024Climate Change

The Greening of Transportation

We’ll need new inventions and novel adaptations to decarbonize the sector

2 min read
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TransportationWebinar

Modeling Cable Design & Power Electronics

Applications that will help ensure a consistent and long-term electricity supply

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Artificial IntelligenceOpinion

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

But the regulations that could rein it in would benefit all of AI

6 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceOpinion

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

19 min read