Will Knight
AI with human feelings? Anthropic’s Claude edges closer
... A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, joy, and fear, ...
US dominance of artificial intelligence is threatened as China, France and others rush to join the AI development race
“Chinese models are catching up as far as performance to the US models,” [Vanessa Parli] adds, “but across the globe, ...
Does AI encourage violence? It comes close
In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking ...
Inside the ‘minds’ of AI companions: Uncensored programs bring mimic human-like conversations
In September, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of ...
‘Million dollar question’: Can advancements in ‘AI science’ create ‘AI scientists’
As amazing as today’s AI programs can be, they are limited by their need to consume human-generated training data. If ...
Conclusions drawn by many artificial intelligence studies cannot be replicated. Here’s why this is a concern
Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan and his PhD student Sayash Kapoor got suspicious last year when they discovered a strand of ...
The frightening thing about military AI: It may be too easily fooled, ‘turned against it owners’
Last March, Chinese researchers announced an ingenious and potentially devastating attack against one of America’s most prized technological assets—a Tesla ...
Why it’s critical for AI to be given a good dose of common sense
Wherever artificial intelligence is deployed, you will find it has failed in some amusing way. Take the strange errors made by translation algorithms ...
‘Turbocharged’ artificial synapses could make artificial intelligence 100 times more efficient
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech ...
We are entering the era of artificial intelligence—how should we get ready for it?
If the US were to draw up a new AI master plan, what should it aim to do? Funding AI ...
Improved ‘brains’ grant robots dexterity that could soon rival humans
It might not look that special, but the robot above is, according to a new measure, the most dexterous one ...
Dystopian ‘Black Mirror’ scenarios predict dark future for artificial intelligence
[A] new report by more than 20 researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, OpenAI, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation warns that ...