At the same time, the risk is immediate and present with agents. When models are not just contained boxes but can take actions in the world, when they have end-effectors that let them manipulate the world, I think it really becomes much more of a problem. We are making progress here, developing much better [defensive]…
Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring similar to their US counterparts on the LMSYS benchmark. It notes that China publishes more AI papers and files more AI-related patents than the US, although it does not assess the quality of either. The US, in contrast, produces…
Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included an exemption for semiconductors, which, at least for now, won’t be subject to higher import duties. But just three days later, some US tech companies may be finding that the loophole actually creates more problems…
“DOGE’s actions at the VA are putting veterans’ lives at risk,” representative Gerald Connolly, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells WIRED. Veterans, he adds, risk being “stripped of the care they need and deserve because [President Donald] Trump and Elon have turned the VA over to lackeys who do not know the first…
If you’ve noticed a new light blue circle appear in your Whatsapp chats recently, and wondered what it was, Meta has recently expanded its implementation of Meta AI into new markets—and now, it’s in yours. While it began rolling out in the US and Canada in 2023, more recently it has started arriving on devices…
Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but the latest models still need some additional tutoring to help them be as clever as they can. Scale AI, a company that’s played a key role in helping frontier AI firms build advanced models, has developed a platform that…
Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity and drinking water in your home. When you go to the bathroom and flush the water, the sewage goes into a huge sewage system. That system is created and maintained by the state. But in…
Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” the CEO wrote on X. The move is partly a response to the runaway success of the R1 model from…
Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, but it has quietly created a lab that is now setting records when it comes to AI performance. Amazon’s AGI SF Lab, which is located in San Francisco and dedicated to building artificial general intelligence, or AI…
As well as CSAM, Fowler says, there were AI-generated pornographic images of adults in the database plus potential “face-swap” images. Among the files, he observed what appeared to be photographs of real people, which were likely used to create “explicit nude or sexual AI-generated images,” he says. “So they were taking real pictures of people…
