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AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

App, Artificial Intelligence, Features and Investigations, Hype Correction

The microwave-size instrument at Lila Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doesn’t look all that different from others that I’ve seen in state-of-the-art materials labs. Inside its vacuum chamber, the machine zaps a palette of different elements to create vaporized particles, which then fly through the chamber and land to create a thin film, using a technique […]

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What even is the AI bubble?

App, Artificial Intelligence, Hype Correction, MIT Technology Review Explains

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. In July, a widely cited MIT study claimed that 95% of organizations that invested in generative AI were getting “zero return.” Tech stocks briefly plunged. While

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AI might not be coming for lawyers’ jobs anytime soon

App, Artificial Intelligence, Hype Correction, Why It Matters

When the generative AI boom took off in 2022, Rudi Miller and her law school classmates were suddenly gripped with anxiety. “Before graduating, there was discussion about what the job market would look like for us if AI became adopted,” she recalls. So when it came time to choose a speciality, Miller—now a junior associate

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Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs

Artificial Intelligence, Hype Correction, Opinion

On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul McCartney astonished his audience with a groundbreaking application of AI: He began to perform with a lifelike depiction of his long-deceased musical partner, John Lennon. Using recent advances in audio and video processing, engineers had taken the pair’s final performance

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The great AI hype correction of 2025

App, Artificial Intelligence, Hype Correction

Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry—and several world economies. Millions of people started talking to their computers, and their computers started talking back. We were enchanted, and we expected more. We got it. Technology companies scrambled to

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The AI doomers feel undeterred

App, Artificial Intelligence, Hype Correction

It’s a weird time to be an AI doomer. This small but influential community of researchers, scientists, and policy experts believes, in the simplest terms, that AI could get so good it could be bad—very, very bad—for humanity. Though many of these people would be more likely to describe themselves as advocates for AI safety

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A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype

App, Artificial Intelligence, Hype Correction

Each time you’ve heard a borderline outlandish idea of what AI will be capable of, it often turns out that Sam Altman was, if not the first to articulate it, at least the most persuasive and influential voice behind it. For more than a decade he has been known in Silicon Valley as a world-class

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