… More broadly, Anthropic emphasizes that the purpose of convening the effort is to kickstart urgent exploration of how AI capabilities across the industry are on the precipice, the company says, of upending current software security and digital defense practices around the world. “The real message i… …
… If this sounds more complicated than training a robotic hand to screw in a light bulb, consider that the soccer field doesn’t roll around beneath the players’ feet. At MIT, Agrawal was researching how to train a robotic hand to grasp objects from above, not just hold them in its palm. …
… Combined with advances in AI, it’s now feasible to design dangerous new toxins and pathogens using large language models, although some biology training would likely still be needed to make a functional virus from scratch. …
… Though the inspiration for LLMs was rooted in biology, current frontier models have little in common with the human brain. A person uses about 20 watts of energy to process information; a single chip in an AI training cluster uses more than 30 times that amount. …
… AI seems different. I do use AI for research and as a way to search through my interviews which, of course, are transcribed by AI . One particularly useful tool is the aforementioned Notebook LM, where I can dump my interviews and notes and quickly locate who said what. …