Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space
New benchmark shows how AI models lack intuitive visual reasoning:…Humanity’s Sixth Sense highlights some shortcomings of current AI systems…AI startups…
Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun
Here’s a speech I gave on Saturday the 17th of October at the IMF meeting in Bangkok. This speech is…
Import AI 478: Math for alignment; ProgramBench; and Mirendil shows what RSI means
Tech Tales:The Magical Realism Robot Workshop for Sick KidsSo one of the jobs that no one expected was designing cute…
Import AI 479: Spacewar; low-latency tasks versus LLMs; Genie 4
LLMs are very bad at low-latency tasks:…Realtime-Bench says it’ll be a while till AI systems can play games or do…
Cambridge scientists create a $10 chip that could put a medical lab on your wrist
A new optical sensor costing just $10 could bring laboratory-level precision to wearable health monitors, potentially allowing people to track…
MIT scientists build a tiny robot that swims using living muscle cells
A swimming robot does not necessarily need a bulky motor or powerful mechanical parts to move through water. MIT researchers…
Scientists overcome a hidden obstacle to more powerful quantum computers
Silicon spin qubits could play a major role in the future of quantum computing because they can be produced using…
Tiny magnetic vortices could help computers work more like your brain
Tiny magnetic structures called skyrmions could help pave the way for a new generation of computers that process information more…
A tiny supercurrent could unlock quantum information without destroying it
One of the biggest obstacles in quantum computing is surprisingly simple to describe: how do you read information without changing…
Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery
Regina Barzilay, MIT’s School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI and Health, and James Collins, MIT’s Termeer Professor of Medical…