WASHINGTON — The distance in the march from the American Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence is almost beyond comprehension. But leaders of the Smithsonian Institution are using AI to bridge the divide. As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary of independence, Smithsonian leaders are turning to AI to better understand items in
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman offered a strikingly aggressive forecast for artificial intelligence’s development at the Ford Pro Accelerate event in Detroit, saying that an earthquake is headed our way. “The models that we see today are the worst models we’ll ever use in our lives,” Schulman said in conversation with Fortune’s Diane Brady. “Every two
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews of the technology during a meeting at the White House. “I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump
GAIA is a scanning transmission electron microscope with a built-in system to cool samples to ultra-low temperatures with liquid helium. Credit: Cameron Johnson When it comes to imaging materials, the colder the sample is, the better. At room temperature, atoms hum with thermal energy and appear blurry in images, but at ultra-cold temperatures, near absolute
In almost 30 countries, energy prospectors are hunting for a potential game changer in the quest to fight global warming. Their quarry is hydrogen gas trapped deep underground in hidden deposits. They hope to find big reservoirs of this geological hydrogen — substantial enough that the gas could become a green replacement for fossil fuels.
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