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There’s Neuralink—and There’s the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It

Mark Jackson is playing a computer game with his mind. As he reclines in bed, three blue circles appear on a laptop screen...

AI

Where Are All the AI Drugs?

A new drug usually starts with a tragedy.Peter Ray knows that. Born in what is now Zimbabwe, the child of a mechanic and...

AI

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

I found the human-AI couples by posting in relevant Reddit communities. My initial outreach hadn’t gone well. Some of the Redditors were convinced...

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Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish

If you reach a point where progress has outstripped the ability to make the systems safe, would you take a pause?I don't think...

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The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019,...

AI

‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

Almost no one hits it big in music. The odds are so bad it’s criminal. But on a late spring evening in Louisville,...

Block Chain

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the PayPal cofounder and Affirm CEO—sees a new...

Block Chain

If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in a conference room...

AI

Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers

Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes is so important...

Block Chain

The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin:...

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Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI

But more piles of fascinating research are only useful to Google if they generate that most important of outputs: profit. Most customers generally...

AI

Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You

“Maybe an Alzheimer’s patient is frightened, so a nurse has to spend some time calming them down, or perhaps they have lost some...

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