New Scientist - Technology
New Scientist - Technology
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OpenAI’s warnings about risky AI are mostly just marketing
A powerful new AI called o1 is the most dangerous that OpenAI has ever released, the firm claims – but who are these warnings for, asks Chris Stokel-Walker
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The deepfakes of Trump and Biden that you are most likely to fall for
Experiments show that viewers can usually identify video deepfakes of famous politicians – but fake audio and text are harder to detect
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Electric vehicles race combustion cars in 'battle of technologies'
‘Battle of Technologies’ sees electric vehicles and combustion cars compete at the highest level. Who will win?
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How Star Trek-style replicators could lead to a food revolution
Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. This time, Rowan Hooper takes us to the early 2030s, when a technological step change enabled us to produce all the food we needed without the use of animals
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A riveting exploration of how AI models like ChatGPT changed the world
Supremacy, a new book from tech journalist Parmy Olson, takes us inside the rise of machine learning and AI, and examines the people behind it