Natalie Wolchover

Scientists believe there are planets outside our solar system where life is even more abundant and sustainable. A few years ago, in a lab in Berlin, astrobiologist Iva Vilović was thrilled when she observed garden cress sprouting under a light designed to... See more

The computer scientist Moritz Hardt calls benchmarks 'the mistake that made machine learning.' He's studied where they went wrong, and why they've managed to drive progress anyway. Benchmarks are the rulers of AI, in both senses of the word. As measuring ... See more

Merijn Hos and Jurriaan Hos A few years ago, in a lab in Berlin, the astrobiologist Iva Vilović was thrilled when she observed garden cress sprouting under a light designed to mimic a 'K-dwarf' star — an orange-hued star that's cooler and slower burning t... See more

A few years ago, in a lab in Berlin, the astrobiologist Iva Vilović was thrilled when she observed garden cress sprouting under a light designed to mimic a 'K-dwarf' star — an orange-hued star that's cooler and slower burning than our yellow sun. To her s... See more

E verything that's swept the world since the 2022 release of ChatGPT — 'the AI economy'; data centers; chatbots acting as best friends, doctors, and mathematicians; talk of existential risk — it all starts, in some sense, with an intern in a University of... See more