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[ad_1] So what is AI, anyway? The best way to think of artificial intelligence is as software that approximates human thinking. It’s not the same, nor is it better or…
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[ad_1] Betaworks is embracing the AI trend not with yet another LLM, but instead a clutch of agent-type models automating everyday tasks that nevertheless aren’t so simple to define. The…
Read More »Why it’s impossible to review AIs, and why TechCrunch is doing it anyway
[ad_1] Every week seems to bring with it a new AI model, and the technology has unfortunately outpaced anyone’s ability to evaluate it comprehensively. Here’s why it’s pretty much impossible…
Read More »Microbiome startups respond as industry is accused of ‘questionable practices’
[ad_1] The biotech sector has embraced the microbiome in recent years, a green field market powered by cheap genome sequencing and venture dollars, promising bespoke treatments for everything from gut…
Read More »Saildrone’s first aluminum Surveyor autonomous vessel splashes down for Navy testing
[ad_1] Ocean intelligence company Saildrone has just put the first of a new generation of Surveyor autonomous vessels in the water: an aluminum version that the Navy is keen to…
Read More »Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’
[ad_1] AI is “not open in any sense,” the battle over encryption is far from won, and Signal’s principled (and uncompromising) approach may complicate interoperability efforts, warned the company’s president,…
Read More »Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu on the nature of startups: ‘Grow faster, or die faster,’ just don’t give up
[ad_1] Rabbit co-founder and CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t afraid of death … the death of the company, at least. He told TechCrunch that the company is a startup whose fortunes…
Read More »‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI
[ad_1] Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image-generating model that injected diversity into pictures with a farcical disregard for…
Read More »Tomorrow.io’s radar satellites use machine learning to punch well above their weight
[ad_1] Those of us lucky enough to be sitting by a window can predict the weather just by looking outside, but for the less privileged, weather forecasting and analysis is…
Read More »Japan’s SLIM mission makes historic moon landing, but its time is running out
[ad_1] Japan’s long-planned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon has successfully touched down on the lunar surface, making the nation the fifth in history to do so. But all is not…
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