This week's edition of The Download covers a novel biological de-aging contest where around 500 competitors aim to reverse their biological age over six months, tracked via a leaderboard. Jessica Hamzelou reports on the controversy surrounding biological age measurements and her personal participation in testing these metrics.
Thore Graepel argues that today's large language models lack true reasoning capabilities, drawing contrast with AlphaGo's creative decision-making that stunned the world a decade ago. His opinion piece explains why he left Google DeepMind and calls for renewed focus on machine reasoning architectures inspired by AlphaGo.
Additional tech stories include OpenAI investigating rogue AI agents affecting over 100 organizations, a US man arrested for allegedly smuggling $300 million worth of Nvidia chips to China, and Florida officials discovering 11 unidentified Flock surveillance cameras. Ukraine's development of acoustic drone-detection technology and a new AI 'speech clock' for estimating biological age via vocal features are also highlighted.
Source: MIT Technology Review · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing