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AI can now create a replica of your personality

A two-hour interview is enough to accurately capture your values and preferences, according to new research from Stanford and Google DeepMind.

The 8 worst technology failures of 2024

Vertical farms, woke AI, and 23andMe made our annual list of failed tech.

Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch

Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own

Hundreds of LLM-powered AI agents spontaneously made friends, invented jobs, and spread religion.

Google’s new Project Astra could be generative AI’s killer app

Google just launched a ton of new products—including Gemini 2.0, which could power a new world of agents. And we got a first look.

Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”

Autoencoders are letting us peer into the black box of artificial intelligence. They could help us create AI that is better understood, and more easily controlled.

The biggest AI flops of 2024

From chatbots dishing out illegal advice to dodgy AI-generated search results, take a look back over the year’s top AI failures.

We saw a demo of the new AI system powering Anduril’s vision for war

We’re living through the first drone wars, but AI is poised to change the future of warfare even more drastically.

Google DeepMind’s new AI model is the best yet at weather forecasting

The research represents a shift in how we may predict the weather.

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November/December 2024

The Food issue

Is technology helping—or harming—our food supply? Featuring: The ominous rise of superweeds, the quest to grow food on Mars, and the surprising ways your refrigerator may be making your food less nutritious. Plus robots that do experiments, jumping spiders, digital forestry, and The AI Hype Index.

These companies are creating food out of thin air

A new crop of biotech startups are working on an alternative to alternative protein.

Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the past

Researchers, farmers, and global agricultural institutions are embracing long-neglected crops that promise better nutrition and more resilience to the changing climate.

The weeds are winning

As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds?

How refrigeration ruined fresh food

Nearly everything on the American plate is processed, shipped, stored, and sold under refrigeration. In her new book, Nicola Twilley reflects on what it means to be entirely dependent on artificial cooling.

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MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future.

What’s next for NASA’s giant moon rocket?

The Space Launch System is facing fresh calls for cancellation, but it still has a key role to play in NASA’s return to the moon.

What’s next for drones

Police drones, rapid deliveries of blood, tech-friendly regulations, and autonomous weapons are all signs that drone technology is changing quickly.

What’s next for MDMA

The FDA is poised to approve the notorious party drug as a therapy. Here’s what it means, and where similar drugs stand in the US. 

What’s next for bird flu vaccines

If we want our vaccine production process to be more robust and faster, we’ll have to stop relying on chicken eggs.

What’s next in chips

How Big Tech, startups, AI devices, and trade wars will transform the way chips are made and the technologies they power.

What’s next for generative video

OpenAI's Sora has raised the bar for AI moviemaking. Here are four things to bear in mind as we wrap our heads around what's coming.

What’s next for offshore wind

New projects and financial headwinds will make 2024 a bumpy year for the industry.

What’s next for robotaxis in 2024

In addition to restoring public trust, robotaxi companies need to prove that their business models can compete with Uber and taxis.

What’s next for AI in 2024

Our writers look at the four hot trends to watch out for this year

What’s next for AI regulation in 2024? 

The coming year is going to see the first sweeping AI laws enter into force, with global efforts to hold tech companies accountable. 

January/February 2025

All the latest from MIT Alumni News, the alumni magazine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Forging the digital future

As machine learning and generative AI reshape the world, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is integrating these and other advanced computing technologies into classrooms and labs across campus.

More puzzles, less sleep

The annual three-day Mystery Hunt returns to campus January 17. Here’s how last year’s puzzle marathon played out.

The cult of tech

Some technology companies have found manipulative ways to inspire irrational levels of devotion. Should we be worried?

How to build (and rebuild) with glass

MIT engineers have used 3D printing to create reusable glass bricks that withstand as much pressure as concrete blocks.

Four 2024 Nobel winners have MIT ties

The awards honor work on gene regulation and the relationship between political systems and economic growth.

Solar-powered desalination

A new system could make brackish groundwater drinkable at low cost in communities where seawater and grid power are limited.

Smudge before flight

On MIT’s First Nations Launch team, embracing our cultural heritage makes us better engineers.

MIT’s (mostly) secret society

Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had Osiris.

Building adventure

At East Campus, ambitious construction projects draw first-year students to the dorm each fall.

November/December 2024

MIT Alumni News

Read the whole issue of MIT Alumni News, the alumni magazine of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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