AI’s Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law
A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and…
AI Turns Classic Memes Into Hideously Animated Garbage
Have you ever wondered what your favorite memes might look like if they were animated? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence technology, you can now see…
AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
Kimberly Gasuras doesn’t use AI. “I don’t need it,” she said. “I’ve been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?” That logic…
New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI’s ‘Black Box’
Despite the fact that they’re created by humans, large language models are still quite mysterious. The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing…
Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning: What’s the Difference?
Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be confusing. Two of the most important fields in AI development are “machine…
OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the…
Google I/O: ‘Ask Photos’ Will Make it Easier to Dig Through Your Google Photos
Google’s latest I/O conference was an absolute slurry of AI promises. The company took so many stabs with new AI models, showing off new AI capabilities that integrate Gemini into…
Former Pixar Animator Gives One Big Reason AI Video Won’t Work in Hollywood
AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that’s supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics…
Weird Teeth Give Away the Fakery In Microsoft’s Latest AI Video Generator
Researchers at Microsoft released a paper this week about VASA-1, a new AI tool that can generate a convincing video of someone speaking, using just a still image. Microsoft doesn’t…
DARPA Tests AI Dogfighting (But Won’t Say If the Human Pilot or Computer Won)
The U.S. Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced successful tests of a new artificial intelligence system using the experimental X-62A VISTA aircraft on Wednesday. The tests—AI…