Aceasta este ediția de astăzi a Descărcarea, Buletinul nostru informativ din timpul săptămânii, care oferă o doză zilnică despre ce se întâmplă în lumea tehnologiei.
How to build a better AI benchmark
It’s not easy being one of Silicon Valley’s favorite benchmarks.
SWE-Bench (pronounced “swee bench”) launched in November 2024 as a way to evaluate an AI model’s coding skill. It has since quickly become one of the most popular tests in AI. A SWE-Bench score has become a mainstay of major model releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google—and outside of foundation models, the fine-tuners at AI firms are in constant competition to see who can rise above the pack.
Despite all the fervor, this isn’t exactly a truthful assessment of which model is “better.” Entrants have begun to game the system—which is pushing many others to wonder whether there’s a better way to actually measure AI achievement. Citește povestea completă.
—Russell Brandom
A cauzat energia solară pană de curent în Spania?
At roughly midday on Monday, April 28, the lights went out in Spain. The grid blackout, which extended into parts of Portugal and France, affected tens of millions of people—flights were grounded, cell networks went down, and businesses closed for the day.
Over a week later, officials still aren’t entirely sure what happened, but some have suggested that renewables may have played a role, because just before the outage happened, wind and solar accounted for about 70% of electricity generation. Others, including Spanish government officials, insist that it’s too early to assign blame.
It’ll take weeks to get the full report, but we do know a few things about what happened. Here are a few takeaways that could help our future grid.
—Casey Crownhart
Acest articol este din The Spark, buletinul informativ săptămânal despre climă al MIT Technology Review. Pentru a-l primi în căsuța dvs. poștală în fiecare miercuri, înscrie-te aici.
Lecturile obligatorii
Am căutat pe internet ca să vă găsesc cele mai amuzante/importante/înfricoșătoare/fascinante povești de astăzi despre tehnologie.
1 The Trump administration will repeal some global chip curbs
It’s drawing up new rules that prioritize direct negotiations with various nations. (Bloomberg $)
+ The curbs have always been leaky anyway. (Economist $)
2 India and Pakistan have accused each other of overnight drone attacks
The conflict between the two countries is rapidly escalating. (Gardianul)
+ Pakistan claims to have shot down 25 drones in its airspace. (Reuters)
+ Mass-market military drones have changed the way wars are fought. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
3 The FDA is interested in using AI for drug evaluation
And has met with OpenAI to hear more about how to do it. (Cu fir $)
+ An AI-driven “factory of drugs” claims to have hit a big milestone. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
4 The US is pushing nations facing its tariffs to adopt Starlink
Government officials in India and other countries have fast tracked approvals. (WP $)
+ India recently announced new rules for satellite internet providers. (Restul lumii)
5 Apple is overhauling its Safari browser to focus on AI search
Its search volume is down for the first time in 22 years. (Pragul)
+ Apple exec Eddy Cue thinks AI search will replace traditional search engines. (Bloomberg $)
+ Inteligența artificială înseamnă sfârșitul căutărilor pe internet așa cum le știam. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
6 Mark Zuckerberg is betting big on AI chatbots
He’s on a media charm offensive to convince us that AI friends are the future. (WSJ $)
+ Revoluția relațiilor bazată pe inteligența artificială este deja aici. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
7 Students can’t wean themselves off ChatGPT
And experts fear that they’ll emerge into the workforce essentially illiterate. (Revista NY $)
+ Some educators believe that AI highlights how the ways we teach need to change. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
8 We don’t really know how memory works 🧠
But these researchers are doing their best to find out. (Quanta Magazine)
9 The vast majority of the sea depths are still unexplored
What lies beneath is a mystery. (Nou om de știință $)
+ Meet the divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
10 Pet psychics are taking over TikTok 🔮
But does your furry friend have anything to say?(NYT $)
+ Humans are still better than AI at futuregazing—for now. (Vox)
+ How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)
Citatul zilei
“It’s like living in hell.”
—Elizabeth Martorana, a Virginia resident, describes what it’s like to live in a development zone for Amazon, Microsoft, and Google data centers, Semafor rapoarte.
Încă un lucru
How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink
“This is one of the least visited places on planet Earth and I got to open the door,” Matty Jordan, a construction specialist at New Zealand’s Scott Base in Antarctica, wrote in the caption to the video he posted to Instagram and TikTok in October 2023.
In the video, he guides viewers through the hut, pointing out where the men of Ernest Shackleton’s 1907 expedition lived and worked.
The video has racked up millions of views from all over the world. It’s also kind of a miracle: until very recently, those who lived and worked on Antarctic bases had no hope of communicating so readily with the outside world.
That’s starting to change, thanks to Starlink, the satellite constellation developed by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX to service the world with high-speed broadband internet. Citește povestea completă.
—Allegra Rosenberg
Încă putem avea lucruri frumoase
Un loc pentru confort, distracție și distragere a atenției, care să-ți însenineze ziua. (Ai vreo idee?) Scrie-mi câteva rânduri sau trage cu ei spre mine.)
+ Does Boston still drink? Not in the same way it used to.
+ Where in the US you should set up camp to stargaze chiar acum.
+ Wow: this New Zealand snail lays eggs from its neck. 🐌
+ Jurassic World Rebirth is coming: and it looks suitably bonkers.
Romanian 
English