This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence
Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but the latest models still need some additional tutoring to help...
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’
Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity and drinking water in your home....
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer
Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open-weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight...
Amazon’s AGI Lab Reveals Its First Work: Advanced AI Agents
Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, but it has quietly created a lab that...
Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the company at $33 billion, including $12...
If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in a conference room and darts over...
How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the...
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model...
OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at understanding what ChatGPT users mean with...
Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks
Reinforcement learning is a decades-old way of having a computer learn to do something through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback. It came to the...