Archive: October 2020

AI models are notoriously likened to black boxes, meaning the humans who build them can’t look inside to see how they transform mountains of training data into lines of code, sonnets, or whatever else they’re asked to generate. Not completely, anyway. A subfield called interpretability research has blossomed in recent years, aimed at shining various lights on how AI models “think.” One of the brightest lights is called chain-of-thought reasoning, or CoT. T

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Like humans, artificial intelligence learns by trial and error, but traditionally, it requires humans to set the ball rolling by designing the algorithms and rules that govern the learning process. However, as AI technology advances, machines are increasingly doing things themselves. An example is a new AI system developed by researchers that invented its own way to learn, resulting in an algorithm that outperformed human-

Douyin / Lu In Disney’s beloved 1993 family film, “Homeward Bound,” a ragtag group of two dogs and a cat embark on a daring quest through the wildness of the Sierra Nevada mountains to return to their owners. The movie was a major success, tugging at the heartstrings of pet owners everywhere. Now, viral video footage of a group of dogs stranded on the side of a busy roadway in China has drawn plenty of comparisons to the story, showing a reminiscent group

Continuous context — это способность агентской системы накапливать понимание своего пользователя, его проектов и принятых решений. рост контекста моих агентов с февраля 2026 Недавно общался со стартапом Embody-OY из кремниевой долины. Говорят, следующая прорывная фишка будет непрерывный контекст. У Rabbit r1, типа, не вышло, Ray-Ban Meta* Charm, значит, неизвестно, справится ли, а они, типа, точно смогут создавать эффективный непрерывный контекст. Эффектив

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Anthropic launched, on this Wednesday (7), the Claude Haiku 5.5, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model from the company aimed at tasks that require speed, high volume processing, and low cost.The launch updates the Haiku 4.5 version and completes the new Claude 5.5 family, which also includes the models Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5. According to Anthropic, the Haiku 5.5 is their fastest, cheapest, and most c

After agreeing to somewhat of a truce with his AI rivals this weekend over the need to rein in the pace of AI development, Elon Musk now seems to be offering Apple an olive branch too. SpaceXAI, the AI division of Musk’s SpaceX, filed paperwork Monday to drop its antitrust claims against Apple from a lawsuit it brought last year. In a filing in Texas federal court, SpaceXAI said it had resolved its claims against Apple and asked the court to dismiss them w

@shu15511551(shu)Fable-kun made his appearance; that night, together with Professor Opus, we created the first instance of the GAS Manager AI Agent. PythonExcelAIClaudeCodeMCP0Posted on 2026-11-11 Introduction ―― The “beams” have returned. Professor Opus (Claude Opus), who had been on leave for a while, has returned. During his absence, I worked with Fable-kun (Gemini Flash) to improve the GAS Manager. The biggest achievement was that the process of rewrit

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI is revolutionizing cyberattacks, as advancements in the tech allow bad actors to find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities in software across the web. If there were ever a time to shore up your security habits — or maybe just nuke your entire digital history — it’s now. A pair of terrifying stories dropped this week highlighting exactly how vulnerable all of us are right now. One, publi

Everything about ChatGPT see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about OpenAI see more OpenAI announced on Thursday (15) an update to ChatGPT’s Voice mode, with improvements to speech recognition, the understanding of different accents, and the naturalness of conversations. The update includes the GPT-Live-1.1 and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip models, a smaller version of the technology, as well as new voice options in different languages

A report from an organization called Transluce says Library and Archives Canada was subject to “a series of apparently failed rudimentary hacking attempts” by AI agents on two dates this year, May 28, and June 9. Transluce calls itself a “nonprofit research lab dedicated to public oversight” of AI systems. Its report calls this a case in which “rogue” agents were “aggressive” in their tactics, but it should be noted that it also says the purpose of the att

Law enforcement is continuing to warn that a “flood” of AI-generated fake child sex images is making it harder to investigate real crimes against abused children, The New York Times reported. Last year, after researchers uncovered thousands of realistic but fake AI child sex images online, every attorney general across the US quickly called on Congress to set up a committee to squash the problem. But so far, Congress has moved slowly, while only a few stat

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock By now, it should be pretty clear that the corporate executives of the world aren’t exactly into AI because they think it’ll cure cancer. They’re making a different calculation, motivated by simple economics: pretty soon, they believe, AI will be efficient enough to do many or even all workers’ job, removing employee payroll from the corporate equation. That means more money for those at

Getty Images / Futurism By now, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t broadly familiar with the AI heavyweights and their flagship models. OpenAI has ChatGPT, Anthropic has Claude, Google has Gemini. But what does Amazon have? Not a whole lot, it turns out. Unlike its competitors in the tech megacorp scene, Amazon’s standout AI model — organized under the name “Nova” — is about the farthest thing from a household name. And that’s not likely to cha

This is how a prohibition on automatically retrying the task once the subscription limit was reached ended up in the file. Its owner set it: the retry hits the same limit. With usage credits enabled (an additional paid balance used to cover work beyond the subscription limit), the retry also costs money: according to the limits documentation, with credits enabled, work does not stop at the limit and continues using credits. Therefore, to the question of wh

OpenAI is sticking to its story that it never intended to copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice when seeking an actor for ChatGPT’s “Sky” voice mode. The company provided The Washington Post with documents and recordings clearly meant to support OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s defense against Johansson’s claims that Sky was made to sound “eerily similar” to her critically acclaimed voice acting performance in the sci-fi film Her. Johansson has alleged that OpenAI hired

Shutterstock / Futurism Saber, the developer behind the upcoming Rideshare “Stimulator” video game, is being accused of replacing its writers with AI. The accusation was made Tuesday by Stella Sacco, who says she was fired back in December 2023 while the game was still under development. “I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development,” Sacco wrote on Bluesky. “All the passenger voices were AI too,” she added.

Shutterstock Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go. Sure the industry has made remarkable progress in beefing them up to generate seemingly human-level sentences, but in measures of reasoning and productivity, AI has its work cut out. But how do today’s large language models stack up against humans when it comes to learning to speak? Not any better, it turns out. In a breakdown of the AI teachi

John Lamparski/Getty Images The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI to imitate their inspirations — one of those inspirations being himself. In an interview with IndieWire, the 84-year-old — whose wide-ranging filmography includes 1982’s “Fitzcarraldo,” 2009’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” and 1979’s “Nosferatu the Vampyre“ — was asked about a 2025 movie called “About a