Tech: The great debate over artificial general intelligence

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June 25—This week, low-orbit satellites that threaten Earth's ozone layer, how a photographer's real picture stole the show at an AI image competition, and a new method to create programmable fluids. That and more below! --Ben Guarino, Associate Editor, Technology

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In the Race to Artificial General Intelligence, Where's the Finish Line? Claims of artificial general intelligence are increasingly common. But can anyone agree on what it is? Lauren Leffer

Can AI Save Schrödinger's Cat? Outcomes in quantum mechanics depend on observations. But must the observer be human? Anil Ananthaswamy

How This Real Image Won an AI Photo Competition Nature still outdoes the machine, says a photographer whose real image won an AI photography competition Allison Parshall

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Remembering Lynn Conway, of the Conway Effect, Who Helped Launch the Computing Revolution Lynn Conway, a trans woman and advocate for LGBTQ rights, was underappreciated and often underrecognized for her work in chip design Mar Hicks; The Conversation US

Badly Designed Streets Are an Overlooked Car Crash Cause, Traffic Engineer Warns Education and enforcement can only go so far in reducing crashes when badly designed roads are filled with large cars Wesley Marshall, partner content; The Conversation US

Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Hole Recovery Pollution from skyrocketing numbers of satellites burning up in Earth's atmosphere could threaten our planet's protective ozone layer Max Springer, intern writer

Tiny Spheres Key to Tunable 'Smart Liquid' Programmable liquids could aid robot grippers, shock absorption, acoustics, and more Simon Makin

First Wooden Satellite Will Test 'Green' Space Exploration Japan's LignoSat will test wood's resilience in space and could lead to a new era of more sustainable, less polluting satellites Tim Hornyak; Nature magazine

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