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Tag: AI
SOFTWARE INTENDED TO SPOT HALLUCINATIONS HAS RISKS OF ITS OWN
Everyone knows that chatbots “hallucinate”: they can randomly make up stuff out of thin air in response to a question or set of instructions.
STARGATE ANNOUNCES PLAN TO EXPAND ABROAD
Stargate—the Softbank-funded partnership among Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and others—is expanding.
FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” FILE…
OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the latest version of the company’s Chat-GPT AI, was hauled in for repairs after it was found to have a habit of kissing up to users—obsessively flattering or complimenting them even when they told the AI they stopped taking their medication or that they liked to harm animals.
AI DESIGNS MOLECULES THAT CAN TURN GENES ON AND OFF
Researchers at Spain’s Center for Genomic Regulation tasked a custom-designed AI with a challenge no AI had been given before.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ROBOT BOOM, HUMAN BUST
Elon Musk told a Saudi official that humanoid robots are set to be more numerous than cars—or humans—in the not-too-distant future.
AI PROFIT, SAFETY AND POLITICS: A PRIMER FOR DECIPHERING LEGACY MEDIA COVERAGE
Partisan legacy media has an expansive definition of “AI safety” that is often used in articles to advocate for “woke” and “politically correct AI” under the guise of safety, in the same breath that it warns that AI might be doing things like secretly replicating itself, and lying to researchers about its activities.
AI CAN MAKE IRRATIONAL DECISIONS JUST LIKE PEOPLE DO, STUDY FINDS
OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 large language models, recent AIs that run on the company’s Chat-GPT platform, are “impressively consistent” in their ability to reason, according to a study by researchers in Australia and Canada.
U.S. AIR FORCE RECRUITS AI TO POWER MINI-DRONES
The U.S. space program in the last half of the 20th century gave us advances ranging from artificial limbs to Tang orange drink mix.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SCRAPS BAN ON EXPORTING AI CHIPS
The Trump administration has abolished a rule, slated to take effect 15 May, that banned exporting AI chips.