How students built Ireland’s first satellite

Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?

Angie Wang illustrates her toddler’s language-acquisition process, and how it compares with the learning process of large language models.

Covid test info of over 81 crore Indians reportedly breached

Personal data of over 81 crore Indians have allegedly been leaked and was put out for sale on the dark web.

The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans

As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. We analyze the emissions of several AI systems (ChatGPT, BLOOM, DALL-E2, Midjourney) relative to those of humans completing the same tasks. We find that an AI writing a page of text emits 130 to 1500 times less CO2e than a human doing so. Similarly, an AI creating an image emits 310 to 2900 times less. Emissions analysis do not account for social impacts such as professional displacement, legality, and rebound effects. In addition, AI is not a substitute for all human tasks. Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission levels than can humans.

Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve

A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record of innovation. The mechanization of agriculture, steam engines, electricity, modern medicine, computers, and the internet—these technologies radically changed the world. Still, the trend growth rate of GDP per capita in the world's frontier