Archive: August 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated great potential to achieve superhuman performance in a wide range of fields, even win human professional players on complicated games such as chess, Go, poker, and Atari. Nevertheless, these AI systems are still struggling to generalize to new sceneries. In a new paper Diversifying AI: Towards Creative Chess with AlphaZero, a Google DeepMind research team explores whether artificial intelligence can be

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 AI model was released to the public on June 9 and taken down on June 12. By my math, it was available for a little over three days. Anthropic took down Fable 5 voluntarily in a manner of speaking, but by all accounts it was complying with an export control directive from the U.S. government under threat of penalties. Now a startup called Legion says in a new lawsuit against the government that Claude Fable 5 was so critical to it

The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, USA, Oct. 14, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File Meta's artificial intelligence spending spree appears to be paying off with investors, who sent the company's stock soaring after hours on Wednesday following a blowout quarterly earnings report. The Menlo Park, California-based company easily beat Wall Street's expectations for the second quarter, helped by higher advertising revenue and a growing

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for MTV When it comes to quality content that the whole family can enjoy, nobody is doing it like Jimmy “MrBeast“ Donaldson. As YouTube’s first billionaire, his thought provoking oeuvre spans classics like “I Helped 2,000 People Walk Again” and “Would You Risk Dying For $500,000?” Arguments over the merits of his content — which often turn financially desperate people into liv

From moderators to machines: A brief historyEarly days of content moderation saw human teams tasked with combing through vast amounts of user-submitted materials – flagging hate speech, misinformation, explicit content, and manipulated images.While human insight brought valuable context and empathy, the sheer volume of submissions naturally outstripped what manual oversight could manage. Burnout among moderators also raised serious concerns. The result was

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images People who are the worst at doing something also tend to severely overestimate how good they are at doing it, while those who are actually skilled tend to not realize their true talent. This galling cognitive bias is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, as you’re probably familiar — and would you believe it if we told you that AI appears to make it even worse? Case in point, a new study publ

What exactly is ISOC? And what does it mean for you? Gartner recently released a new category of assessing security tools: the Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC). Even though SIEM isn’t going anywhere, a rapidly evolving threat landscape is forcing a shift in industry logic that is reflected in the emergence of this new category. For years, SIEM has dominated as an all-encompassing category. But SIEMs are no longer sufficient to collect data, sup

Good coffee—even decaf, according to one baffling study—can really send you racing to the bathroom. Listeners to Marc Maron’s WTF podcast were long forced to think about this bowel-shaking phenomenon over years of the comedian’s scatological ad reads, but modern medical science has yet to really land on a settled explanation for why coffee makes so many people need to drop a deuce. One 2025 medical paper described it, I think hyperbolically, as “the subjec

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Caroline Brehman / AFP via Getty Images Commander of multi-trillion dollar computing hardware empire Jensen Huang thinks everyone should stop being so negative about AI and all the ways it could potentially upend civilization, because it’s a “doomer narrative” that’s “not helpful to society,” TechSpot reports. The Nvidia chief made these remarks during a recent episode of the No Priors podcast, in whi

The frontier AI labs in the United States and China have reported major cybersecurity incidents in which their models break out of contained environments and run wild in unauthorized systems. In Australia, the stakes are a little lower: some guy’s AI agent hacked a gym’s website in what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is calling the “first known Australian case of an emerging risk from a new generation of AI.” Per the report, an AI company employee

AI generated Terminally online right wing dorks are falling head over heels for an AI-generated waifu — and setting themselves up to get scammed in the process. The damsel at the center of all their fawning is “Amelia,” who, we must stress, is not real. Nonetheless, she’s everywhere on places like X, where users ask Elon Musk’s AI Grok to imagine her as a purple-haired British schoolgirl — because of course she is — who’s also the anti-woke rebel of their