AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
Last year, the team began experimenting with a tiny model that uses only a single layer of neurons. (Sophisticated LLMs have dozens of layers.) The hope was that in the …
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The US Is Forming a Global AI Safety Network With Key Allies
The US is widely seen as the global leader in artificial intelligence, thanks to companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. But the US government says it needs help from other …
It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype
Folks, when dogs talk, we’re talking Biblical disruption. Do you think that future models will do worse on the law exams? If nothing else, this week proves that the rate …
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
“It’s really radical,” Stanley told me of Maven, “We got rid of likes and follows. That’s like insanity.” Some early adopters seem to be on board. “I quit all social media …
OpenAI’s Chief AI Wizard, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company
Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist at OpenAI, has left the company. The former Google AI researcher was one of the four board members who voted in November to fire …
It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It
Google Search is about to fundamentally change—for better or worse. To align with Alphabet-owned Google’s grand vision of artificial intelligence, and prompted by competition from AI upstarts like ChatGPT, the …
Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It
Would it be too disruptive if protests staged sit-ins or chained themselves to the doors of AI developers, one member of the Discord asked. “Probably not. We do what we …
OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn
OpenAI released draft documentation Wednesday laying out how it wants ChatGPT and its other AI technology to behave. Part of the lengthy Model Spec document discloses that the company is …
Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA
Google spent much of the past year hustling to build its Gemini chatbot to counter ChatGPT, pitching it as a multifunctional AI assistant that can help with work tasks or …
Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything?
Philosopher Nick Bostrom is surprisingly cheerful for someone who has spent so much time worrying about ways that humanity might destroy itself. In photographs he often looks deadly serious, perhaps …