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Why the AI field's biggest names are betting billions on 'world models"
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (846+ words) Playing peekaboo isn't just a game for babies. It's also one of the first ways they learn that something is still there, even if they can't see it. When you hide your face and suddenly reappear'peekaboo!'the delightful surprise leads…...
Creativity is as important as data literacy in the AI era, says IBM exec
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (530+ words) Good morning. AI is reshaping jobs faster than workers can retrain for them. "The skills we need in the AI age are fundamentally different from before," said Charu Mahajan, senior partner and VP of IBM Consulting APAC, during a panel…...
Anthropic's Mythos is a wake up call, but experts say the era of AI-driven hacking is already here
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (612+ words) Some researcher say is not clear, however, how much the new models increase the chances of this kind of cyber-Armageddon. But the reason for their skepticism is not reassuring: they say that much of what Mythos can do may already…...
Is AI's visual understanding mostly a 'mirage'? New research suggests so.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (193+ words) Ok, now, if you own a dog, as I do, there will be moments you'll recognize that we fundamentally don't understand how dogs perceive the world. So interacting with an LLM is probably the closest thing we've had so far…...
Anthropic leaks its own AI coding tool's source code in second major security breach
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (218+ words) Anthropic has accidentally leaked the source code for its popular coding tool Claude Code." A spokesperson said: "No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed. This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security…...
Rogue AI is already here
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (916+ words) One incident is a curiosity. Three in three weeks is a pattern. Rogue AI is no longer hypothetical. AIs turning against humans may sound like science fiction, but top AI experts have long debated and tested for exactly this scenario....
Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz backs Deeptune's $43 M Series A to build "training gyms' for AI agents
2+ mon, 22+ hour ago (648+ words) Fortune Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz backs Deeptune's $43 M Series A to build "training gyms' for AI agents AI startup Deeptune has raised a $43 million Series A to build what it calls "training gyms" for AI agents, Fortune has learned exclusively. Andreessen…...
Why everyone is talking about Andrej Karpathy's autonomous AI research agent
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (196+ words) Fortune "The Karpathy Loop: Former Open AI researchers autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days'and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of Open…...
AI can double output. Human biology can't
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (644+ words) Scott Hutcheson is a Senior Lecturer of Technology and Engineering Leadership at Purdue University and the author of Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Impact. In recent weeks, Accenture made headlines for linking senior managers" promotion prospects…...
We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say 'likely' but humans hear 65%
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (456+ words) When a human says an event is "probable" or "likely," people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what that means. But when an AI chatbot like Chat GPT uses the same word, it's not assessing the odds the…...