Schools brief | Projections of the future
How modelling articulates the science of climate change
From paper and pencil to the world’s fastest computers
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AI needs regulation, but what kind, and how much?
Different countries are taking different approaches to regulating artificial intelligence
LLMs will transform medicine, media and more
But not without a helping (human) hand
How AI models are getting smarter
Deep neural networks are learning diffusion and other tricks
The race is on to control the global supply chain for AI chips
The focus is no longer just on faster chips, but on more chips clustered together
AI firms will soon exhaust most of the internet’s data
Can they create more?
A short history of AI
In the first of six weekly briefs, we ask how AI overcame decades of underdelivering