Harry Booth

Booth is an editorial fellow at TIME. He covers tech, with a focus on AI. He is a Tarbell fellow.

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When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats

When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

By Harry Booth

Inside France’s Effort to Shape the Global AI Conversation

France’s AI Action Summit marks a departure from previous gatherings. Some welcome the change. Others say safety has been sidelined.

By Harry Booth / Paris

5 Predictions for AI in 2025

AI has began to reason more deeply and interact via voice and video—trends that AI experts and leaders say will accelerate. Here’s what to expect in 2025.

By Tharin Pillay and Harry Booth

How China Is Advancing in AI

AI advances by Chinese companies are raising the stakes in the global AI race.

By Harry Booth

Which AI Companies Are the Safest—and Least Safe?

A new report graded companies including Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI on their AI safety measures. Many were found lacking.

By Harry Booth

Cameo's CEO on Rebuilding After the Pandemic

Steven Galanis spoke with TIME about how Cameo is adapting to a post-pandemic world, artificial intelligence, and the changing nature of fame.

By Harry Booth

How Science Can Drive Global Solutions

TIME100 Talks explored a crucial challenge: how to transform promising breakthroughs in science into real solutions.

By Harry Booth

Has AI Progress Really Slowed Down?

Recent reports say leading AI companies are experiencing diminishing returns.

By Harry Booth

Michael D. Smith: TIME100 Climate

For decades, AmeriCorps volunteers have been on the front lines of climate change by helping to restore natural spaces and support communities impacted by extreme weather events. But the American Climate Corps, an initiative announced...

By Harry Booth

Boyan Slat: TIME100 Climate

As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the planet’s natural defenses against climate change. A 2023 study suggests microplastics may interfere with phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms that help...

By Harry Booth

What Donald Trump's Win Means For AI

Following a historic victory at the polls, what will a second Trump term mean for America's AI future?

By Harry Booth and Tharin Pillay

How AI Is Being Used to Respond to Natural Disasters in Cities

AI is spurring a new generation of earthquake monitoring and climate forecasting systems.

By Harry Booth and Tharin Pillay

An AI Solution for Stutters

As someone who stutters, Joris Castermans, the CEO and founder of Dutch startup Whispp, knew whispering helps with fluency. Castermans undertook the “really labor intensive” work of creating a dataset of phrases in both spoken...

By Harry Booth

AI Seer Facticity.AI

Find out why AI Seer Facticity.AI is one of the best inventions of 2024

By Harry Booth

Keeping Chatbots in Check

Find out why Aporia Guardrails is one of the best inventions of 2024

By Harry Booth

The Largest-Ever Chip

To run an AI model, computers must constantly shift vast amounts of data between separate memory and logic chips, a process that chokes performance. To solve this, Cerebras Systems in 2019 engineered a dinner plate–sized...

By Harry Booth

Business-Centric AI

Cohere's Command R+, an AI large language model released in April, excels at tasks businesses need: summarizing documents, answering questions based on that information, and responding in multiple languages. It also has the ability to...

By Harry Booth

Finding Cures

In 2020, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold 2, a machine-learning algorithm that in 2022 would prove capable of predicting, with near-experimental accuracy, the structure of nearly every known protein. The breakthrough recently earned co-founder and CEO...

By Harry Booth

AI Explains It All

Released in July 2023 by Google Labs, the AI-powered NotebookLM helps users make sense of complex information by digesting up to 50 sources—documents, YouTube videos, even entire books—and summarizing them, suggesting follow-up questions, or creating...

By Harry Booth

Generative AI for Marketers

Marketers were quick to jump on the generative AI trend, using it to draft content. But Abhay Parasnis, a former Adobe executive and the founder and CEO of AI marketing company Typeface, says most are...

By Harry Booth
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