innovation

Finally, an AI that can drive a digital car as a goat.

Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”

Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.

Vaccines targeting some of our deadliest cancers are showing promise in early trials.

It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace.

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

It’s not enough just to stay current and competitive with AI — you’ll also need to build a long-term strategy.

“Stargate” could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.

Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

On the morning of April 20, 1961, all conditions were “go” for an attempt at free flight. A man was on standby with a fire extinguisher. Just in case.

Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.

Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.

If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.

Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in “Elden Ring” and beyond.

Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.

Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.

Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.

Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.

Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.

NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.

What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.

Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.

Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.

“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

The futuristic weapon could be ready for the battlefield in 5 years.

The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.

Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.