The promised artificial intelligence revolution requires data. Lots and lots of data. OpenAI and Google have begun using YouTube videos to train their text-based AI models[1]. But what does the YouTube archive actually include?
Our team of digital media[2] researchers[3] at the University of Massachusetts Amherst collected and analyzed random...
In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson[1] and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a gully[2]. It proved to be the first of 47 bones of a single individual – an early human ancestor whom Johanson nicknamed “Lucy.” Her...
For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom[1] felt at the top of the world – and indeed he was.
Grissom crewed the Liberty Bell 7 mission[2], a ballistic test flight that launched him through the atmosphere from a rocket. During the test, he sat inside a small capsule and reached a peak of over 100 miles up...