Tag: ai

Anthropic AI’s safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming ‘the world is in peril’, and so he’s off to become ‘invisible’ and study poetry

Anthropic AI’s safety lead…

Mrinank Sharma, who was leading the Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic, has resigned from the company with one of…
Anthropic has developed an AI ‘brain scanner’ to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought

Anthropic has developed an…

It’s a peculiar truth that we don’t understand how large language models (LLMs) actually work. We designed them. We…
As if your work meetings weren’t already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion

As if your work…

Imagine a new work colleague who remembered everything you or anyone else ever said in a meeting. Wouldn’t that…
‘No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense’: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth uses decoy pages to trap web-crawling bots and feed them slop ‘as a defensive weapon’

‘No real human would…

The web is plagued by bots. That’s nothing new of course, but now we’re in the midst of our…
‘Humans still surpass machines’: Roblox has been using a machine learning voice chat moderation system for a year, but in some cases you just can’t beat real people

‘Humans still surpass machines’:…

The rise of voice chat in online videogames has inevitably led to a growth in bad behavior between players—it…
I’m creeped out by this trailer for a generative AI game about people using an AI-powered app to solve violent crimes in the year 2028 that somehow isn’t a cautionary tale

I’m creeped out by…

Wolf Games describes itself as “a generative gaming startup backed by the minds behind Law and Order and Chicago…
Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a ‘diminished skill for independent problem-solving’ and at least one AI model seems to agree

Microsoft co-authored paper suggests…

If you think that workers heavily reliant on generative AI may be less prepared to tackle questions that can’t…
Microsoft unveils Copilot for Gaming, an AI-powered ‘ultimate gaming sidekick’ that will let you talk to your console so you don’t have to talk to your friends

Microsoft unveils Copilot for…

Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot assistant thing, is coming to Xbox as “Copilot for Gaming,” which aims to “help you…
8 months into their strike, videogame voice actors say the industry’s latest proposal is ‘filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse’

8 months into their…

The SAG-AFTRA union says “progress has been made” in negotiations over the videogame voice and motion capture actors strike…
LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: ‘I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds’

LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art…

A minor kerfuffle in the Balatro subreddit has led developer LocalThunk to weigh in on the topic of AI-generated…