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This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories
“The physical world is where we have most of our problems, because it is so complex and fast moving that…
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The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge
Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an…
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DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Solve the Climate Crisis
It’s a perennial question at WIRED: Tech got us into this mess, can it get us out? That’s particularly true…
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Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies
In 2016, Oskarina Fuentes got a tip from a friend that seemed too good to be true. Her life in…
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AI Hurricane Predictions Are Storming the World of Weather Forecasting
This did not look guaranteed to work, says Matthew Chantry, machine-learning coordinator at the ECWMF, who is spending this storm…
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Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center
Google’s first data center consisted of 40-foot, server-filled shipping containers, which enabled advanced cooling and fewer construction headaches. It opened…
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Palantir’s Reputation Stalks Its Bid for the UK’s National Health Data
These comments were made by Thiel in a private capacity, says Palantir’s McArdle. “Our CEO has made it clear he…
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These Prisoners Are Training AI
Across a sterile white table in a windowless room, I’m introduced to a woman in her forties. She has a…
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Self-Driving Cars Are Being Put on a Data Diet
Self-driving-car developers initially held a similar philosophy of data maximization. They generate video from arrays of cameras inside and outside…
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