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Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

An apparent mix-up with the technology led to Danielle Horan being wrongly accused of shoplifting.

Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

We’re so busy absorbed in the hyper-speed cycle of press releases from the technoculture’s AI juggernaut that it's hard to take a moment to look into the past for insight. If we did, we might realise there was a piece of literature, published more than a century ago, paints a dark potential future o

Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Research Institute Download full report here. Introduction In the second half of 2023, generative AI is dominating headlines. Policymakers, technologists, and activists are all grappling with its potential implications for communities and the planet. Integrating LLMs (large language models) into search engines may multiply the carbon emissions associated with each […]

The AI gold rush has given rise to a new breed of prospector, self-anointed ‘AI experts’ who are well aware that expertise can be manufactured, performed and, most importantly, monetised.

The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.

New York and more than two dozen other US states sued 23andMe to challenge the sale of its customers’ private information after the genetic testing company filed for bankruptcy in March.

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

Luciano Floridi, Giannis Perperidis, and Alexandros Schismenos discuss the rapid evolution of AI technology and the nature of intelligence.

If our machines use less energy, will we just use them more?

Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …

The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus

As Judge Alsup is deliberating over Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on fair use, the parties continue to fight over discovery. One of the more fascinating discovery disputes relates t…

Whether we lose some of the skills artificial intelligence performs for us largely depends on how we use this tech

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

A Polish researcher used ChatGPT-4o to create a fake passport, which was approved by a platform that used standard ID and selfie-based verification. This might sound like the utopia everyone was afraid of, but it’s the reality as of today, and it exposes a serious gap in the way digital onboarding i

OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

OpenAI's large language model GPT-4o told a user who identified themself to it as a former addict named Pedro to indulge in a little meth.

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

In a complaint, filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the agency alleged that WW Internation

I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

As AI tools become cheaper and more accessible, the stakes for safety and ethics have never been higher. ElevenLabs’ Head of AI Safety Artemis Seaford and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica joined TechCrunch AI editor Kyle Wiggers for a critical discussion on the multitude of ethical challenges facing AI today.  From deepfakes to responsible deployment, they […]

Your watch or wearable isn't actually the most accurate way to determine how hard your last workout was. This completely analog method is.

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Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has been proposed as a method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning tasks. These intermediate tokens have been called "reasoning traces" or even "thoughts" -- implicitly anthropomorphizing the model, implying these tokens resemble steps a human might take when solving a challenging problem.In this paper, we present evidence that this anthropomorphization isn't a harmless metaphor, and instead is quite dangerous -- it confuses the nature of these models and how to use them effectively, and leads to questionable research.

It Isn’t Just Bias and Threats to Creative Livelihoods. Generative AI Is Built on Nihilism. Its Real Product Is Despair.

In my very first op-ed for The New York Times, I argue that the alliance we're now seeing between Silicon Valley and the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill that passed the House last week, now up in the Senate, which includes a clause that would ban states from regulating AI for the next decade, will only cement that trajectory. https://lnkd.in/en5PG9Vu | 13 comments on LinkedIn

Researchers have found that newer AI models can omit key details from text summaries as much as 73 percent of the time.