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

And the focus on AI is distracting us from some deeper and longer-lasting threats to democracy. This year, close to half the world’s population has the opportunity to participate in an election.

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 ...

Hundreds of AI-driven tools are being built to save teachers time on grading, lesson planning, and other tasks. But not all educators are on board. This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly ...

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.

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 ...

The rise of AI porn could change our expectations of relationships. The power of pornography doesn’t lie in arousal but in questions. What is obscene? What is ethical or safe to watch?

We are increasingly learning and communicating by means of the moving image. It will shift our culture in untold ways. The other day I idly opened TikTok to find a video of a young woman ...

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 ...