New algorithms for intelligent and efficient robot navigation among the crowd
Credit: University of Eastern Finland
Service robots have started to appear in various daily tasks such as parcel delivery, as guide dogs…
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This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
Large language models like those powering ChatGPT and other recent chatbots have broad and impressive capabilities because they are trained with massive amounts of text. Michael Sellitto, head of geopolitics and security at Anthropic, says…
Heritage algorithms combine the rigors of science with the infinite possibilities of art and design
The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be “open source,” where cultural mixing, sharing and collaborating…
Social media algorithms exploit how humans learn from their peers
In prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely to be reliable and result in group success. However, with the advent of diverse and…
Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy of the latest issue of WIRED!). It’s the exact sort of question that I hoped Google…
Fighting AI With AI: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic join hands to tackle dangerous algorithms
Some of the top most AI studios have vowed to…
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of other users. When they scrolled through their newsfeed, Facebook and Instagram…
This Startup Wants to Give Farmers a Closer Look at Crops—From Space
Aspia Space is joining the ranks of companies and space agencies working on remote sensing, tracking the physical attributes of things on the ground by using sensors on satellites. The majority of Earth observation satellites, like NASA’s…
What My Solitary Confinement in Iran Revealed About the Dangers of an Isolated Internet
Five months into my eight-month solitary confinement and right before the Persian New Year, Nowruz, the guards put me in a new cell at the other end of the Evin prison high-security facility in Tehran. Measuring 3 by 3 meters, it was much…
AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
The White House has struck a deal with major AI developers—including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—that commits them to take action to prevent harmful AI models from being released into the world.Under the agreement, which the…