Silicon Valley is trying to make sense of the growing backlash against artificial intelligence, but so far, it’s not going that well. The inconvenient truth…
Category: Primers
I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices…
Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a…
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements…
The Powerful Chinese Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Here
It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that…
Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of having their content used to help train the artificial intelligence models of Twitch’s…
The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China
When Edward Warchocki speaks with you, he sounds like a regular guy. “Not super intelligent, but very emotional, very easy to make friends with,” says…
Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly’s yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been create more value than you capture. It’s no surprise…
These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
For 28 days, Keshav had a new item on his daily to-do list: masturbate for research purposes. Both before and after self-pleasuring, he logged his…