Andrei Mihai

Andrei is a science communicator and a PhD candidate in geophysics. He is the co-founder of ZME Science, where he published over 2,000 articles. Andrei tries to blend two things he loves (science and good stories) to make the world a better place -- one article at a time.

The Pandora’s Box of Generative Text AI

With all the craze surrounding text-generating AIs, we are all drawn to the potential that has suddenly opened up in front of us. But what dangers loom behind the sparkling promise? (This article was written …

15. Mar 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 28 comments

A Change You Can Hear: AI Now Mimics Voices

Technology is a tool, and it’s up to us to decide how we want to use it. Read more

15. Feb 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments

Ubiquitous Computing – Shwetak Patel

When Shwetak Patel was a student, he wanted to build something that would impact a million people – a lofty goal, but one that is hard to reach for a computer scientist at the start …

04. Jan 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment

How Gamified AI Outperforms Humans and Previous Algorithms in Multiplying Matrices

This could make processing faster and more efficient. Read more

23. Nov 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 3 comments

A Hot, Hot Topic Hits the Stage at #HLF22: Deep Learning

Few fields of maths and computer science have received as much attention in the past decade as deep learning. To non-practitioners and the general audience, deep learning seems to carry an almost mystical aura around …

19. Oct 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 3 comments

Computing for social good: Shwetak Patel’s take on how computers can make society better

The last day of the 2022 Heidelberg Laureate Forum kicked off with an engaging lecture from ACM Prize in Computing laureate Shwetak Patel, where he presented some of the ways in which computing can help …

06. Oct 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 2 comments

Three Laureates Walk on a Stage… and Start Debating Technology

Being able to attend a discussion between three titans of computer science is a unique opportunity. Read more

20. Sep 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments

Beyond Chess and Go: Why AI Mastering Games Could Be Good News For Everyone

Lee Sedol, one of the best Go players of of all time, wasn’t expecting much of a challenge when he faced the AI AlphaGo in 2016. But despite playing excellently, he was handed a serious …

17. Aug 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 11 comments

Can we use Asimov’s three laws of robotics in the real world?

In the past few weeks, the news was abuzz with talk of a Google engineer who claimed that one of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems had gained sentience. Google was quick to contradict the …

20. Jul 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 15 comments

The Logic of Space and Number: Dennis Sullivan’s quest for simplicity

You’re always a bit nervous when talking to a laureate, but as I was running with Dennis Sullivan in the hallway of a hotel in Oslo, my worries quickly vanished. In about two hours’ time, …

06. Jul 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment

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