When Mark Zuckerberg rebooted his company’s artificial intelligence efforts last year, it seemed to be a very expensive gamble. Meta’s latest AI models, Muse Wonder…
Author: Will Knight
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,…
I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again
As the author of a newsletter about artificial intelligence, I consider it my duty to experience the bleeding edge of this technology firsthand. This week,…
These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words
I recently met with some brilliant Russian mathematicians who showed me a way for artificial intelligence models to communicate via something akin to machine telepathy.…