The news: A new AI model for summarizing scientific literature can now assist researchers in wading through and identifying the latest cutting-edge papers they want to read. On November 16, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) rolled out the model onto its flagship product, Semantic Scholar, an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides […]
Asia’s biggest climate migration
On May 20, Super Cyclone Amphan was expected to make landfall in the Indian state of West Bengal. That morning, as the wind picked up, Mitali Mondol and her husband, Animesh, fled their house, leaving behind everything they owned. The Mondols live in Gosaba, an island in the Sundarbans, an archipelago that is home to […]
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society
A solar-powered autonomous drone scans for forest fires. A surgeon first operates on a digital heart before she picks up a scalpel. A global community bands together to print personal protection equipment to fight a pandemic. “The future is now,” says Frédéric Vacher, head of innovation at Dassault Systèmes. And all of this is possible with […]
EmTech Stage: Twitter’s CTO on misinformation
In the second of two exclusive interviews, Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield sat down with Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s Chief Technology officer to discuss the rise of misinformation on the social media platform. Agrawal discusses some of the measures the company has taken to fight back, while admitting Twitter is trying to thread a needle of […]
EmTech Stage: Facebook’s CTO on misinformation
Misinformation and social media have become inseparable from one another; as platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown to globe-spanning size, so too has the threat posed by the spread of false content. In the midst of a volatile election season in the US and a raging global pandemic, the power of information to alter […]
‘Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity’ Is an Uneasy Mix of Two Very Different Worlds
Nintendo’s highly anticipated hack-and-slash crossover misses too much of what makes Zelda: Breath of the Wild a masterpiece. Powered by WPeMatico
‘Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity’ Is an Uneasy Mix of Two Very Different Worlds
Nintendo’s highly anticipated hack-and-slash crossover misses too much of what makes Zelda: Breath of the Wild a masterpiece. Powered by WPeMatico
Ghostery’s Making a Privacy Browser—and Ad-Free Search Engine
The tracker-blocking company will soon launch a privacy-friendly desktop browser as well. Powered by WPeMatico
Marissa Mayer’s Next Act Is Here
The former Yahoo CEO wants to build a better address book on your phone. Does anyone want it? Powered by WPeMatico
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
It’s no secret that machine-learning models tuned and tweaked to near-perfect performance in the lab often fail in real settings. This is typically put down to a mismatch between the data the AI was trained and tested on and the data it encounters in the world, a problem known as data shift. For example, an […]