The Best of MIT Technology Review

The invasion of Ukraine supercharged the decline of the country’s already struggling tech sector—and undercut its biggest success story, Yandex.

“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”

«GPT-4 knows hundreds of times more than any one person does. So maybe it’s actually got a much better learning algorithm than us»

AI is already being used in the legal field. Is it really ready to be a lawyer?

We’re crawling with microbes, and scientists want to use them to treat disease.

A new kind of machine-learning model is set to improve automated decision making in finance, health care, ad targeting, and more.

Anyone looking for an illustration of how rapidly shopping habits changed when covid-19 hit needed only to glance at the top 10 search terms on Amazon in the week of April 12 to 18. In place of former…

New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.

Perfect Day says it’s figured out how to make ice cream that’s creamy without any animal protein.

The West has largely gotten China’s social credit system wrong. But draft legislation introduced in November offers a more accurate picture of the reality.

«In just one example, the province of Liaoning said in August that it’s exploring how to reward blood donation in the financial credit system.)»

Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.

Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. It was a viral meme using the technology that led her to research the possibility—and discover that it was…

In 2020, AI-synthetic media started moving away from the darker corners of the internet.

A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing.

Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life”.

It’s a development that could be useful for applications from outer space to the deep sea.

Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.

A quantum version of the building block behind neural networks could be exponentially more powerful.

«The big advantage of quantum computing is that it allows an exponential increase in the number of dimensions it can process.»

If it fulfills its promise, quantum machine learning could transform AI.

Unless you’re a physicist or an engineer, there really isn’t much reason for you to know about partial differential equations. I know. After years of poring over them in undergrad while studying…

Last month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year. Google was describing successful trials of an…

Hope, hype, and self-experimentation collided at an exclusive conference for ultra-rich investors who want to extend their lives past 100. I went along for the ride.

The device uses an algorithm to calculate a meal’s carbohydrates, then automatically releases insulin, taking those burdens off the patient.

This list represents a glimpse into our collective future.

A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.

Companies already have the systems in place that are needed to evaluate their deeper impacts on the social fabric.

«Facebook’s 2012 “emotional contagion” experiment, which showed that users’ affect (their mood as measured by their behavior on the platform) shifted measurably depending on which version of the product they were exposed to»

MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2020 outlines scientific discoveries, available now or in the very near future, that could most profoundly change people’s lives. Included this year: unhackable internet service; individual designer drugs; the proliferation of digital currency; anti-aging treatments; AI molecule searches for better medicines; satellite constellations boosting remote internet access; new uses for quantum computers, tiny, powerful AI apps for phones; bolstering Census privacy; and more accurate climate change forecasts.

One of the godfathers of deep learning pulls together old ideas to sketch out a fresh path for AI, but raises as many questions as he answers.

Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3

The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.