2023
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads platform
July 7, 2023
CS professor Ben Zhao discusses the timing of Meta's Threads launch.
Axiom’s zero-knowledge proofs might one day help detect deepfakes
July 6, 2023
Assistant professor of statistics Yi Sun discusses his startup Axiom developing technology to quickly and accurately detect deepfakes on the internet.
Sixteen UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships
July 5, 2023
Sixteen UChicago faculty members, including PSD professors Michael Franklin and Dan Nicolae, have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.
What’s AGI, and why are AI experts skeptical?
June 30, 2023
Computational linguist Allyson Ettinger explains language processing for ChatGPT in Wired
Gig drivers for Walmart say they’re forced to compete against bots for deliveries
June 30, 2023
Computer scientist Marshini Chetty weighs in on bots taking jobs from gig workers.
In new paradox, black holes appear to evade heat death
June 30, 2023
Computer scientist Bill Fefferman talks quantum gravity and black holes in Quanta Magazine.
Streaming with Brad: The future of lab-grown meat
June 29, 2023
Chemist Bryan Dickinson discusses lab-grown meat following the USDA’s approval for consumer purchase.
Glaze 1.0 modifies art to block AI-generated imitations
June 29, 2023
Article discusses an open source tool Glaze 1.0 developed by UChicago computer scientists that protects artwork by shifting pixels around on images, making them more difficult for AIs to ingest.
How easy is it to fool A.I.-detection tools?
June 28, 2023
Assistant professor of computer science Chenhao Tan comments on AI detection technologies, saying that “in general I don’t think they’re great, and I’m not optimistic that they will be.”
Argonne finishes building its most powerful supercomputer yet
June 23, 2023
Computer science professor Rick Stevens discusses the capabilities of Argonne's supercomputer, Aurora.
Infrastructure woes could slow South Pole telescope plans
June 23, 2023
Astrophysicist John Carlstrom discusses the launch of CMB-S4.
Photography by Keith Vanderlinde
Eleven books to read over summer 2023
June 20, 2023
UChicago teaching award winners, including chemist Bozhi Tian, share their selections.
Photo by Jean Lachat
Designing a less toxic method for MXene synthesis
June 20, 2023
Prof. Dmitri Talapin, Doctoral Candidate Di Wang, and Postdoctoral Researcher Chenkun Zhou discuss a new method to synthesize MXenes.
Image by Di Wang
Flow proof helps mathematicians find stability in chaos
June 16, 2023
Prof. Amie Wilkinson discusses a series of new papers that describe how to reconstruct key dynamical systems with relatively little data.
‘Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed
June 14, 2023
Prof. Jack Szostak comments on several new papers that suggest a path for key biomolecules to have accumulated on Earth's surface in just one mirror image form, saying “it’s a real breakthrough...homochirality is essential to get biology started, and this is a possible—and I would say very likely—solution.”