Generally speaking, AI poisoning refers to the process of teaching an AI model wrong lessons on purpose. The goal is to corrupt the model's knowledge or behavior, causing it to perform poorly, produce ...

Some of today’s most capable AI systems are refined versions of large language models (LLMs) that predict text on the basis of associations made in learning from internet data. In March, researchers ...

There is no problem in principle for machines to design other machines, for systems to generate other systems, and so on until human contribution is nothing more than a distant memory ...

It took an emotionally complex man to first imagine a world in which machines could ‘think’, writes Satyen K. I don’t recall the AI system I was tinkering with back in 2019, but I remember my reaction ...

In a new book, Cory Doctorow says that to reverse the decline of platforms such as Facebook and X, we must understand the principles they discarded.

Verification challenges are rooted in the open nature of the Internet. “There’s no intrinsic way to verify who you are when you connect to the Internet,” said Kevin Gosschalk, founder and CEO of ...

Artificial intelligence is doing its damndest to change everything, and what you drive is no exception. AI is everywhere. Or it will be soon, at least, if you listen to the endless techy pundits ...

Things get weird but not weird enough in the slow burn slog, The Astronaut, which stars Kate Mara as a NASA astronaut who violently returns to Earth with no recollection of what happened and only a ...

His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

Artificial intelligence models are starting to succeed in science. The pace of progress has some researchers convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) could compete with science’s greatest minds in ...

This month is the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”.