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Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.

Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke AI — an open-source creative engine — outlines the pros and cons of open-source and closed-source AI tools.

In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.

Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.

The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.

When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.

A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.

Business advisor Michael C. Fillios has developed a repeatable playbook for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to add value from technology.

Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.

Your brain is not an obsolete piece of technology. Once properly trained for learning, it’s your ticket to navigating the AI landscape.

AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.

Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.

In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.

Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.

The reported supremacy of generative AI over human brain-power in business ideation depends on how you define “better.”

AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.

Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.

To reap the benefits of AI technologies, businesses must keep humans in the driving seat.

AI-powered voice technology is poised to revolutionize the ways we do business.

Can AI and animals coexist? Philosopher Peter Singer gives us a nuanced take on the issue.

Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.

New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line. 

We used to think, “That email isn’t going to write itself.” But now it can, thanks to AI. And there’s so much more, from coding to marketing.

Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.

Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.

Talent wants to be free — but a safe company culture puts “the maze in the mouse” and shackles progress.

AI programs like ChatGPT can create “thanabots” based on deceased loved ones’ digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.

AI was the most divisive topic in a recent predictions tournament.

It could lead to earlier diagnoses, better treatment, and fewer deaths from pancreatic cancer, which kills 88% of patients within five years.