AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
So, there’s the training data. Then, there’s the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really problematic stereotypes across countries, but then...
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...
Ads Popped Up on Drivers’ Screens. There May Be More on the Way
Last week, a Jeep driver turned to Reddit to do what people do best on the site—complain. Every time they hit the brakes on their Jeep,...
BYD’s Free Self-Driving Tech Might Not Be Such a Boon After All
Strictly speaking, God’s Eye is the camera, ultrasonic radar, and lidar array alone, split into A, B, and C variants, with A being best. The system’s...
Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It
The most challenging part of FMVSS 127 is the night-time Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking (PAEB) test, which, unlike the EU’s new AEB regulation, needs to work...
The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs
I asked Amko Leenart, director of design for Ford Europe, about why Ford used VW’s woeful controls in both the Explorer and the Capri, and he...
The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road
“The Cybertruck’s weight, stiff structure, and sharp design have raised valid concerns,” she tells WIRED. “Any loophole allowing these vehicles onto [UK] streets needs to be...
Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla
As I arrive, he’s laying out an impressive lunch spread of salads and carved ham and huge blocks of good cheese. There are already 385 mouths...
Jaguar’s Controversial EV Relaunch Has Leaked Online
In advance of the reveal, Jaguar has made much of the company’s ambition for its cars to be “a copy of nothing”, and a great deal...
Phone Maker Xiaomi Made the Car That Apple Couldn’t
You more than likely know Xiaomi, so-called Apple of China, as a maker of smartphones that offer a decent alternative to Samsung. You might also know...