Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
…And because the early AI models were largely trained on white male datasets, they are even more inaccurate when identifying women and people of color. Age and hairstyle can throw off the…
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5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
Hi Will, I’ve been following your AI Lab newsletter and really appreciate your insights on open-source AI and agent-based learning—especially your recent piece on emergent behaviors in multi…
The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat
The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
…There is the training process, where you let a model loose on the corpus of the internet, and it gobbles up all the data, and it learns from it. And then there…
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
…Generative AI Is Getting Harder to Spot Generative AI platforms have been learning from their mistakes. Henk van Ess, an investigative trainer and verification specialist, says many of the classic tells—incorrect…
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
…Meta’s AI Support Hacked Its Own Users’ Accounts AI can do all kinds of things if you just ask it: Code an app, touch up your photos, or even hack President…
Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
Did you know that Google Chrome includes an automatic download of the Gemini Nano AI model? If not, you wouldn’t be alone. People who use Google’s wildly popular browser realized…
Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
…He has spent countless hours talking to developers, training engineers, and evangelizing GitHub and AI. He’s also smack in the middle of Microsoft’s belated effort to seize the agentic moment…
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
…The world of AI is now more focused on LLMs and a different approach to training that involves feeding vast quantities of human text scraped from books, internet pages, and other sources…
New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI
…Mary McCreary, a data engineer working at a US-based health tech company, says her employer helped her acclimate to new AI tools when she returned to work. Initially skeptical of AI…