Archive: July 2022

The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in real-world applications has been evident in recent years. However, these models are typically limited in their performance on higher-level tasks, such as learning to use external tools like APIs. Previous work has attempted to construct instruction tuning data for tool use, but these efforts have been hindered by their failure to fully stimulate tool-use capabilities. They are also constrained by l

What’s the opposite of Absolute Cinema? According to the New York Times, Martin Scorsese has accepted a role as an advisor for a generative AI firm and, even more devastatingly, has apparently started to use the technology during the storyboarding process for his next film. The company in question is Black Forest Labs, the maker of text-to-image and video models, including Flux, which has been used for image and video generation by companies including Adob

El director general de Nvidia, Jensen Huang, sonríe en un evento el 11 de junio de 2025, en París. Credit: Sarah Meyssonnier/Foto compartida vía AP Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence to China. The news came in a company blog post late Monday and Huang also spoke about the coup on China's state-run CGTN television n

Dividing worker and AI expert perspectives among four task zones showed mismatches in what workers want and what is technically feasible. Credit: Stanford Social and Language Technologies (SALT) Lab A Stanford study captures the gap between worker desires and AI's abilities and highlights areas ripe for research and development. Artificial intelligence is radically shifting the labor market. Today's workers are increasingly turning to AI for everyday tasks

No driver is needed -- except by legislation to supervise its operation, at least for now. A rail line linking two northern Czech towns is testing Europe's first driverless train operating in an open environment, its developer told AFP on Tuesday. The train named Edita has been running since April on a local railway used as a testing track by the Prague-based private AZD company producing transport control and signaling systems. "The train runs autonomousl

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI claims that its new flagship model, GPT-5, marks "a significant step along the path to AGI"—that is, the artificial general intelligence that AI bosses and self-proclaimed experts often claim is around the corner. According to OpenAI's own definition, AGI would be "a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work." Setting aside whether this is something humanity should be striv

Meta outlines Muse Wonder safeguards for AI agents acting on your behalf Meta’s Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The models combine document analysis and tool use with the ability to retain relevant details across conversations and work through obstacles toward a user’s goal. Intended for commercial and research use, they support w

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10, all but forcing users to either upgrade or pay more money to keep getting essential security updates for the OS they already own. No matter that its replacement, Windows 11, can’t be run on nearly half a billion machines, meaning it’ll create mountains of e-waste as those old, perfectly usable PCs get thrown out for new ones. If possi

MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images China’s government might have some lofty ambitions for AI, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to let the tech run roughshod over the country. According to Nikkei Asia, the People’s Republic has recently begun tightening regulations around AI-generated misinformation, as part of what it’s calling the “Clean Up the Internet: Rectifying the Abuse of AI Technology” campaign. Like in other countries unleashing AI, China ha

While large language models (LLMs) dominate the AI landscape, Small-scale Large Language Models (SLMs) are gaining traction as cost-effective and efficient alternatives for various applications. Despite their growing relevance, there is a significant gap in understanding the training behavior and computational requirements of SLMs, especially in contrast to their larger counterparts. In a new paper Computational Bottlenecks of Training Small-scale Large La

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Throughout 2025, the top Silicon Valley firms have been engaged in a feeding frenzy of epic proportions, shelling out hundreds of millions — sometimes even topping a billion — dollars to poach top AI experts from their rival corporations. The result is that tech workers at companies building AI — the technology which, their bosses insist, will one day automate all jobs — are making an astonishing amount of money. That’s accor

The US government deployed xAI's Grok to give dietary advice -- and it's giving some eyebrow-raising advice. “Use Grok to get real answers about real food.” Until very recently, that was the message on the Trump administration’s just-launched website for its new protein-centric dietary guidelines, RealFood.gov, which was announced in a Super Bowl commercial starring Mike Tyson. And what better harbinger to spread the good word than xAI’s Grok, Elon Musk’s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images; AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon over the military’s use of its AI systems flared up this week around a hypothetical nuclear strike scenario, according to new reporting from the Washington Post. The Claude AI builder has frustrated the Pentagon by objecting to its systems being used for autonomous weaponry

reaction-buzzfeed-new-ai-apps2 Futurism BuzzFeed made an unfortunate announcement during its company’s earnings report last week, admitting that “there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern” and that it was “actively exploring strategic options” to address its “liquidity challenges.” The company remains neck-deep in debt, reporting a net loss of $57.3 million for 2025 — and, by most indications, it has yet to succe

DON MACKINNON/AFP via Getty Images In its early days, Twitter alternative Bluesky tried to paint itself as a safe haven from the onslaught of AI, promising in November 2024 that it had “no intention” of scraping user-generated posts to train AI models. It was a shot across the bow, clearly aimed at its rival X-formerly-Twitter, which had recently changed its terms of service to allow just that. And since then, backlash to AI slop and relentless AI integrat

Getty / Futurism Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses X-rays. At a panel held by Crain’s New York Business, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York’s 11-hospital public benefit corporation, made overt gestures of his desire to replace highly trained radiology experts with visual language AI models,