Archive: September 2023

It’s a nightmare scenario that’s long haunted the imaginations of cybersecurity experts: computer malware that spreads autonomously from device to device, learning as it goes and exploiting different vulnerabilities along the way. Now, researchers have demonstrated that such a “worm” can in fact be built today, with publicly available AI models, and at a disconcertingly low cost. A preprint paper published Tuesday by a team from the University of Toronto,

16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read employee records and Bing search analytics, a 16-year-old security researcher has disclosed. The researcher, who goes by Faav, found that Titan did not verify the signature on login tokens. That let him pose as the service’s administrator and run SQL queries against

Explosive memory recall, illustrated through children playing on a curved neural landscape. Credit: Robin Hoshino A new international study has introduced Curved Neural Networks—a new type of AI memory architecture inspired by ideas from geometry. The study shows that bending the "space" in which AI "thinks" can create explosive memory recall—an effect similar to a lightbulb moment in the human brain. The research opens new paths for brain-inspired computi

Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New technologies usually follow the technology adoption life cycle. Innovators and early adopters rush to embrace new technologies, while laggards and skeptics jump in much later. At first glance, it looks like artificial intelligence is following the same pattern, but a new crop of studies suggests that AI might follow a different course—one with signif

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images It’s becoming increasingly clear that OpenAI put staggeringly little thought into the rollout of Sora 2, its latest text-to-video generating app, a “move fast and break things” approach that has resulted in plenty of drama. Last week, the Sam Altman-led company released the TikTok-style app that churns out endless feeds of low-rent and mind-numbing AI slop. It’s an “unholy abomination” that intentionally encourages users to gen

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has revealed that the displacement of skilled workers by technology began nearly two decades ago—well before the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence that have sparked widespread concern over jobs becoming automated in the future. Published in the Socio-Economic Review, the research shows that leading sectors in the so-called "knowledge economy"—including finance, tech, and professional services—hav

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk constructed his personal mythology around a pair of weighty accomplishments: building actual, stable businesses around both rockets and electric cars. So far, he has yet to accomplish the same thing around his AI business. According to documents obtained by Bloomberg, xAI recorded a net loss of $1.46 billion over the third quarter of 2025. That’s an even worse loss than previous months — in the first quarte

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Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Artificial intelligence has changed quite a bit since the end of 2022, when ChatGPT was launched. Today, the technology probably speeds up one thing here and another there for you, whether in personal life or at work.Using the technology may seem harmless. But there's "a toll you'll pay later." That's what Cristiano Nabuco, psychologist and rector of Artmed School of Psychology (APSY), said in an interview

Getty / Futurism One of the core promises of the AI industry is that its tools can automate work for you and perform entire tasks without intervention. Oftentimes, however, the stuff that today’s AI will do on your behalf is less than helpful — or even so comically harmful that you’d be better off just doing a task yourself. A developer learned this lesson the hard way when using Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork model, which was seen as being so potentially d

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andreas Solaro / AFP via Getty In a closed-door meeting with clergy from the Diocese of Rome late last week, Pope Leo XIV clobbered his priests with a distinctly 21st-century request: to resist the “temptation to prepare homilies with artificial intelligence,” according to Vatican News. “Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die,” the Pope reportedly sai

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If the whole “AI-startup to billion-dollar tech giant” pipeline is wearing you thin, you’re not alone. As it turns out, even the guys lavishing tech entrepreneurs with billions of dollars in venture capital funding are getting sick of the AI schtick. That’s courtesy of TechCrunch, which interviewed a number of investors at venture capital firms — the early-investors who try to turn young,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it can be hard to stay positive in the wake of recent headlines. Jack Dorsey’s Block just cut 4,000 roles citing AI, which came on the heels of Amazon’s rolling layoffs, which sent some 16,000 office workers packing. Oracle, meanwhile, just announced it’s culling at least 20,000 workers from its ranks. In

Getty / Futurism Scanning the headlines, it can be easy to get the impression that every investor, banker, and financial analyst is enamored with AI. Yet this simplified view obscures a more complicated story: the US economy isn’t where tech companies say it is. By and large, businesses have gone bonkers over automation, lavishing $410 billion on AI in 2025 alone. To them, it’s a productivity miracle. AI should obviously make everybody work faster, reducin