If you listen to Silicon Valley’s biggest names, humanity is basically three years away from building a digital Einstein who never sleeps and might even cure death before brunch. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg says “superintelligence is in sight.” Anthropic’s Dario Amodei predicts…
Turns out the secret to jailbreaking AI is poetry
It turns out you don’t need elite hacker skills or a hoodie-and-dark-room setup to break an AI chatbot. All you need, apparently… is poetry. Yes, really. According to a new study from Icaro Lab, delightfully titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal…
ChatGPT turns 3, and it has changed how people look things up
On November 30th, 2022, OpenAI quietly dropped a little experiment onto the internet, “a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way.” Cute. Understated. Like announcing a “small meteor” headed toward Earth. Within months, the chatbot had rewritten tech, business,…
AI won’t admit it, but it probably is biased
In early November, a developer who goes by Cookie sat down for what she thought would be another routine chat with Perplexity, her AI assistant of choice. She’s a Pro subscriber, uses the fancy “best” mode, and mostly asks it to…
How computer vision learns to read the streets
Key takeaways Graffiti is a planned, creative craft, not random paint on walls. Its bold colors and shapes make clear visual signals for cameras. Vision systems compare “before and after” images to spot fresh tags quickly. Mapped alerts help crews find…
US Patent Office says AI can help invent, but can’t take credit
For anyone hoping to see “ChatGPT, Inventor” stamped on a shiny new patent, the US government has stopped you right there, and gently slid over a reality check instead. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just updated its guidance on…
AI can crack jokes but still doesn’t get your puns
We all laughed when AI started writing limericks and dad jokes that were technically jokes. But a new academic study has arrived to gently place its hand on our shoulder and say, “We need to talk.” And what it has to…
Are we about to pop the humanoid robot bubble?
Apparently, we’re inflating a brand-new balloon filled with humanoid robots that probably still can’t fold your laundry properly. Lately, tech watchers have been warning that we might be living inside an “AI bubble,” where investment money is flying around faster than…
Anthropic to face Congress over Claude’s China use
Congress has set its sights on AI, again, and this time, the spotlight is on Anthropic and its chatbot Claude, which allegedly got roped into a cyber-espionage campaign linked to China. According to a new Axios report, the House Homeland Security…
OpenAI lets the problematic AI teddy bear back in
Remember that AI teddy bear that went viral for all the wrong reasons? Yeah, the one that absolutely should’ve stayed on the nice list? It looks like it might be getting a redemption arc, with help from OpenAI. Earlier this month,…