When Private Data Isn't Private Anymore

Every AI builder knows the anxiety: you spend months engineering prompts, tuning pipelines, and chaining calls together — then a new model drops and half your work evaporates overnight. It turns out researchers have been wrestling with this exact dynamic for 30 years, and they ke ...  Show more

From Atari to ChatGPT: How AI Learned to Follow Instructions by Katie Malone 

One of the more futuristic things around right now on Earth is research into encoding data into strings of genetic code.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Treating data as a treasure is a foundational principle for Jan Sheppard, the Chief Data and Analytics officer at New Zealand’s Crown Research Institute of Environmental Science and Research (<a href="https://www.esr.c ...

At Columbia University, data scientist Chris Wiggins and historian Matthew Jones teach a course called Data: Past, Present and Future. Out of this collaboration has come a book, How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, to be published on Tuesd ...  Show more

The Data Donators Meet Becky. She suffers from arthritis and is in constant pain. Like lots of people – patients and doctors alike – she has a hunch that bad weather could be exacerbating the problem.It’s a question that has been asked for at least 2000 years, but we have never h ...  Show more