This Grand Theft Auto creator is back – with a novel about an AI that hijacks your mind
New method improves the reliability of statistical estimations
Let’s say an environmental scientist is studying whether exposure to air pollution is associated with lower birth weights in a particular county. They might train a machine-learning model to estimate the magnitude of this association, since machine-learning methods...
New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age
Artificial intelligence can enhance decision-making and enable action with reduced risk and greater precision, making it a critical tool for national security. A new program offered jointly by the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering (Course 2, MechE) and...
Enabling small language models to solve complex reasoning tasks
As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that human-like reasoning is around the corner. In reality, they still trail us by a wide margin on complex tasks. Try playing Sudoku with one, for...
Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell
During early development, tissues and organs begin to bloom through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to predict, minute by minute, how individual cells will fold, divide, and rearrange...
Astronomers discover images of rare Tatooine-like exoplanet with a strange 300-year orbit: ‘Exactly how it works is still uncertain’
Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary. The twin stars in the sky over the newly-found extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," likely bear a resemblance to the twin stars...
Spacecraft from Chinese launch nearly slammed into Starlink satellite, SpaceX says
One of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites just dodged a bullet in orbit. That bullet was one of the nine spacecraft that launched atop a Chinese Kinetica 1 rocket on Tuesday (Dec. 9) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert. It zoomed dangerously...
Data centers in space: Will 2027 really be the year AI goes to orbit?
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research "moonshot" aiming to build a data centre in space. The tech giant...
December’s overlooked meteor shower peaks next week — will the Ursids surprise us?
When skywatchers think of meteor showers in December, they immediately think of the Geminids, which over the years have evolved into the most prolific and reliable of the dozen or so annual meteor displays that occur. And yet, there is also another notable meteor...
Why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS’ close Earth approach is an early Christmas gift for astronomers
Darryl Z. Seligman is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered —- an asteroid or comet that originated outside of our solar system and was...