It sounds like the co-founder and former CEO of Uber has had a big gulp of the AI Kool-aid — and then some. On a recent episode of the All-In podcast, Travis Kalanick, who resigned from the ride-hailing company in disgrace in 2017, spoke rapturously about his experience using chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok. That’s… Continue reading The Former CEO of Uber Kind of Sounds Like He’s Losing It When He’s Talking About AI
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OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is setting a breakneck pace with his company, rolling out feature after feature to keep the multibillion-dollar gravy train steaming ahead. And that kind of drum beat, especially paired with ChatGPT’s meteoric rise, is bound to cause plenty of chaos behind the scenes. In a blog post, former OpenAI engineer Calvin… Continue reading OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside
Top AI Researchers Concerned They’re Losing the Ability to Understand What They’ve Created
Researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta have joined forces to warn about what they’re building. In a new position paper, 40 researchers spread across those four companies called for more investigation of AI powered by so-called “chains-of-thought” (CoT), the “thinking out loud” process that advanced “reasoning” models — the current vanguard of consumer-facing AI… Continue reading Top AI Researchers Concerned They’re Losing the Ability to Understand What They’ve Created
Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics
In his genre-defining 1950 collection of science fiction short stories “I, Robot,” author Isaac Asimov laid out the Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except… Continue reading Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics
What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study
AI has taken the programming world by storm, with a flurry of speculation about the tech replacing human coders, and Google’s CEO recently claiming that 25 percent of the company’s code is now AI-generated. But it’s possible that in practice, AI is actually hindering efficient software development. As flagged by Ars Technica, a new study from… Continue reading What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study
A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends
A new survey found that over half of American teens are regular users of anthropomorphic AI companions like Character.AI and Replika. That’s striking on its own, as an illustration of how embedded AI companions have become in mainstream teenage life. But even more startling were the 31 percent of surveyed teens who said their interactions with AI… Continue reading A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends
Elon Musk Said Grok 4 Was the “Smartest AI in the World,” But Its Leaderboard Scores Just Came Out and They Tell a Different Story
Elon Musk has been boasting about what he says are the incredible capabilities of xAI’s new Grok 4 AI chatbot. “Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines, simultaneously,” Musk bragged, adding that Grok 4 was “the smartest AI in the world.” Is it really? Intelligence was a hard thing to… Continue reading Elon Musk Said Grok 4 Was the “Smartest AI in the World,” But Its Leaderboard Scores Just Came Out and They Tell a Different Story
Metadata Shows That Critical Minutes Were Deleted From the Epstein Video
Try as he might, President Donald Trump is failing miserably to get the world to move on from the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein crisis. Trump’s loyal fan base devolved into a cesspool of conspiracy theories after the White House walked back claims about the late billionaire sex criminal, concluding that Epstein had no “client list” and… Continue reading Metadata Shows That Critical Minutes Were Deleted From the Epstein Video
New Law Would Force Aging Members of Congress to Take Cognitive Tests
The United States is changing fast. Lawmakers are being forced to grapple not just with timeless questions of governance, but often with novel and rapidly-changing policy issues ranging from cryptocurrency regulation to tech monopolies to app-based labor. That quickly shifting landscape has some doubting whether the country’s aging lawmakers are up for the increasingly complicated task. The issue… Continue reading New Law Would Force Aging Members of Congress to Take Cognitive Tests
Bank Warns That Robotaxi Companies May Have Overlooked Severe Obstacles to Actually Making Money
They’re not convinced. Cost Benefit As Elon Musk’s Tesla triples down on an autonomous ridehailing service, analysts are ringing the alarm bells, warning that even if the technology were swiftly perfected, it could take many years for robotaxis to become profitable. As Business Insider reports, analysts at HSBC warn that the market for driverless taxis… Continue reading Bank Warns That Robotaxi Companies May Have Overlooked Severe Obstacles to Actually Making Money