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IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
12+ hour, 54+ min ago (299+ words) The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment. IBM has rolled out the newest models in its family of open-weight large language models designed to be downloaded and self-hosted. The newly launched Granite 4.2 comes in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter variants....
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1076+ words) Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data. This year alone, there have been numerous known instances—often via lawsuits—of AI chatbots (most often, OpenAI’s ChatGPT) that have gone horrifically wrong. A January lawsuit…...
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (474+ words) “Context bombing” tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm. Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice LLMs to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users....
The weather and climate science AI revolution isn’t revolutionary
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1703+ words) Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used? It feels like there’s no escaping AI right now, whether you’re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital “assistant” or struggling to find a new refrigerator…...
Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (620+ words) Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an…...
An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1916+ words) I tried to explain OpenAI’s solution more clearly than OpenAI did. In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the…...
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (283+ words) Fine-tuning tests show “bias … toward confidently representing the claims as true.” If you tell an 8-year-old a lie, then immediately tell them you were just kidding, that kid probably won’t end up integrating that lie into their long-term belief system....
Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (16+ words) Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data. See full article......
Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (195+ words) One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media. AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical diagrams have all slipped past editors and peer reviewers, and…...
What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (905+ words) New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry. I don’t—thankfully—have to follow every statement that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, makes about the world. Many of these statements seem more like “hustles” or…...