It will make it easy to build new game environments on the platform, even if you don’t have any design skills.

The simplified approach makes it easier to see how neural networks produce the outputs they do. A tweak to the way artificial neurons work in neural networks could make AIs easier to decipher.

Sulfur hexafluoride is crucial for high-voltage equipment, but it can trap heat in the atmosphere for 1,000 years or more. And emissions are on the rise. The power grid is underpinned by a single ...

An intelligent digital agent could be a companion for life—and other predictions for the next 125 years. Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have ...

We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it? There is a photo of my daughter that I love. She is sitting ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot ...

If they were a country they’d rank as the fourth-highest emitter, behind only China, the US, and India. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter.

We hope the next US president will continue to fight for the rights of tech workers and consumers rather than billionaire political backers. Tangled up in the contest to be the next US president ...

Researchers have long disagreed over what constitutes open-source AI. An influential group has offered up an answer. Open-source AI is everywhere right now. The problem is, no one agrees on what ...

He didn’t expect to do well at MIT; he didn’t expect his music to be successful. But engineer Tom Scholz ’69, SM ’70, became an inventor, producer, and philanthropist—and the artistic ...

The rapid advancement of computing power, vast amounts of data, and evolving machine learning algorithms have made AI a focal point for business leaders, offering unprecedented potential and ...

The futurist argues that advances in AI and medicine will offer us unprecedented freedom. By the end of this decade, AI will likely surpass humans at all cognitive tasks, igniting the scientific ...