A 17-year-old took home $250,000 for his award-winning discovery in computer 'brains' that could make AI smarter and safer

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Achyuta Rajaram took first prize at the Regeneron Science Talent Search for his project on computer vision models.

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3 students won $700,000 for using AI to translate 2 tweets worth of text from previously unreadable ancient scrolls

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The Herculaneum papyri were buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which also buried the ancient city of Pompeii.

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The AI explosion has made machine learning jobs hot commodities. But do you really need a Ph.D. to get one?

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Techies debated on X, formerly known as Twitter, whether a PhD is necessary to become a machine learning engineer.

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Machine learning can accurately predict death nearly 80% of the time, a new study found

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Researchers studied 6 million people in Denmark to create a deep-learning model able to predict mortality.

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A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius

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A charred black Herculaneum scroll with red laser lines being scanned at Institut de France by Brent Seales and his team
The University of Kentucky team scanned the Herculaneum scroll and took X-ray images of the inside.

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'This is the last opportunity for us to wake up': A leading economist warns we're headed for an AI-driven cataclysm

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"This is the last opportunity for us to wake up," warns Daron Acemoglu.

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How a leading economist learned to start worrying and fear artificial intelligence 

A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people's data to train AI

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Sun Valley conference this year.

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