The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should…
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This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements
Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to…
AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers
Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the story isn’t that simple: While younger…
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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?
During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that…
Democracy’s Machine Learning Problem
We can’t let either artificial intelligence or demagogic politicians tell us exactly what we want to hear. Source link
Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity
Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all human beings combined. “If you project our growth forward,…
GPT-5 Doesn't Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence
Since the all-new ChatGPT launched on Thursday, some users have mourned the disappearance of a peppy and encouraging personality in favor of a colder, more businesslike one (a move…
I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Website
A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack into my brand new vibe-coded website. The AI agents, developed by startup…
Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves
But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools to developers. Cline is a popular…
This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time
Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms: “wild west, cosmic, Roman Empire, golden, underwater.” He…
Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent
A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more…
Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta
OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Wei worked on OpenAI’s o1 and deep research models,…
AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well
The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at finding bugs in software, too. AI…
This AI Model Never Stops Learning
Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts…
A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World
A new machine learning approach that draws inspiration from the way the human brain seems to model and learn about the world has proven capable of mastering a number of simple video games…
Inside the AI Party at the End of the World
In a $30 million mansion perched on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI researchers, philosophers, and technologists gathered to discuss the end of humanity. The…
Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battleground
Wait though … Perplexity—like other AI search engines—has been criticized for hallucinating and getting things wrong. We welcome this criticism, because it’s the best way for us to…
A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley
An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models (LLMs), and a new research center in Silicon Valley…
Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?
Over the past year, veteran software engineer Jay Prakash Thakur has spent his nights and weekends prototyping AI agents that could, in the near future, order meals and engineer mobile…
Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini's New Abilities Point the Way to AGI
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says that reaching artificial general intelligence or AGI—a fuzzy term typically used to describe machines with human-like cleverness—will mean…
A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’
Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s AI tools produce works that can…
Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure
Any data, prompts, or requests you share helps teach the algorithm—and personalized information helps fine tune it further, says Jake Moore, global cybersecurity adviser at security outfit…
2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker
Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s…
AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
So, there's the training data. Then, there's the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really problematic stereotypes across countries, but then the bias…