Machine Learning & AI

Commercial image-generating AI raises all sorts of thorny legal issues

TechCrunch: This week, OpenAI granted users of its image-generating AI system, DALL-E 2, the right to use their generations for commercial projects, like illustrations for children’s books and art for newsletters. The move makes sense, given OpenAI’s own commercial aims…

Dreaming up new proteins, AI churns out possible medicines and vaccines

Science: Computational biologist Jue Wang was already striving to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) to churn out candidate medicines when he had to rush his 2-year-old son to the…

The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

Technology Review: It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. It…

Robots Aren’t Done Reshaping Warehouses

New York Times: The pace of automation has accelerated in the pandemic, as big players invest billions in their efforts to streamline how goods are sorted and shipped. When Digit spends an afternoon unloading boxes from a tractor-trailer in 100-plus-degree heat, co-workers…