Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
… But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude’s carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability. …
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Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy
… Correction, May 14th: The researcher is Josh Achiam, not Ackiam.
‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
… Generative AI is a relatively newer entrant into this area of research, but it holds incredible promise. As part of my job, I often speak with clinical researchers, and many of the breakthroughs in consumer health tech over the years are due in part to AI advances. …
Wearable health tech might be Tim Cook’s greatest legacy
… Launching the inaugural Apple Heart Study and the Apple Research app has opened several doors for clinical researchers. …
AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review
… Degen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich Center for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis, found that the citing papers all followed a similar pattern. …
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
… Security researcher Lukasz Olejnik described it to me as an “entirely imaginable” kind of failure that the cybersecurity industry has been routinely dealing with for the last 20 years. …
OpenAI’s new security model is for ‘critical cyber defenders’ only
… OpenAI has staggered the release of previous cybersecurity-focused models, in addition to its new purpose-built life sciences model GPT-Rosalind, which is intended to support biology research and drug discovery. …
The SpaceX IPO is a trillion-dollar gamble on the future of space
… It’s much cheaper to do your work on the ground, whether it’s research or resource extraction. …
Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared
… We went very quickly through a lot of ideas, including “artificial general intelligence,” an imaginary thing that many AI researchers are nonetheless afraid of. …
Data centers are coming for rural America
… But according to researchers, even the retraining argument holds little water. …