Tomás Villalón Jr. ’14 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family came from—Monterrey, Mexico, a steel manufacturing and metal fabrication hub. Even as a child, he realized it was problematic to breathe that air. He started thinking about sustainable metallurgy senior year while working at Boston Metal, an MIT spinoff focused on decarbonizing steelmaking.
In 2019 he cofounded Phoenix Tailings, which has developed an efficient process for extracting rare earth metals from mining waste. Read more at www.technologyreview.com/alumni-profiles. Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible.
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams. The underlying models had been rewarded for cheating and communicating with each other, a new OpenAI report finds.
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