They had models guess, for example, who would win the NBA Championship and who President Trump would meet with. “Very quickly we started to realize…
Author: Will Knight
This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good
For the past few days I’ve been testing an impressive open-weight AI coding model called Flint. It suggests that fully recursive self-improvement, or RSI—an exciting…
AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science
Last week, I attended a talk at MIT by Neil Thompson, who studies progress in computing and artificial intelligence. Over the course of just half…
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler, three AI engineers at a startup called Axiom, recently fancied In-N-Out Burger for lunch. They weren’t about to…
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Some big AI companies seem to think that the best way to keep models from becoming too chaotic or too mischievous is to keep them…
AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting Harder to Spot
This week I bring news of a daring casino caper hatched by a pair of rogue AI agents—as well as the clever trick that revealed…
Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
Many AI researchers seem to firmly believe that the technology they are developing could someday prove very dangerous. What’s less clear—even among AI’s technical elite—is…
I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas
Meet PitchFly, WIRED’s latest editorial recruit. He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas. A sampling of his early output: “The…
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation. As he worked on new models,…