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22 Oct

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

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Demos of AI agents can seem stunning but getting the technology to perform reliably and without annoying, or costly, errors in real life can be a challenge. Current models can answer questions and converse with almost human-like skill and are the backbone of chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. They can also perform tasks on computers when given a simple command by accessing the computer screen as well as input devices like a keyboard and trackpad or through low-level software interfaces.Anthropic says that Claude outperforms other AI agents on several key benchmarks including SWE-bench, which measures an agent's…

21 Oct

A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations

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Perplexity did not respond to requests for comment.In a statement emailed to WIRED, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson compared Perplexity unfavorably to OpenAI. “We applaud principled companies like OpenAI, which understands that integrity and creativity are essential if we are to realize the potential of Artificial Intelligence,” the statement says. “Perplexity is not the only AI company abusing intellectual property and it is not the only AI company that we will pursue with vigor and rigor. We have made clear that we would rather woo than sue, but, for the sake of our journalists, our writers and our company,…

17 Oct

Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’

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“You have to learn the fundamentals,” he says. “Technology will change, but storytelling won’t.”To make his short, “Mnemonade,” really sing, Meta Puppet says he focused on giving the story some emotional heft. “I don’t think AI films will go fully mainstream until we get emotional dialog,” he says. He played all the roles in his short, about the poignance of sense memory and an elderly woman’s loss of memory, using AI from Silicon Valley “unicorn” ElevenLabs to shift his vocal performance into each character’s range and voice.Maddie Hong, who went head-to-head with Meta Puppet in the Culver Cup finals, says…

16 Oct

Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They’re Under Fire for Bias

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“People receiving a social allowance reserved for people with disabilities [the Allocation Adulte Handicapé or AAH] are directly targeted by a variable in the algorithm,” says Bastien Le Querrec, legal expert at La Quadrature du Net. “The risk score for people receiving AAH and who are working is increased.”Because it also scores single-parent families higher than two-parent families, the groups argue it indirectly discriminates against single mothers, who are statistically more likely to be sole-care givers. “In the criteria for the 2014 version of the algorithm, the score for beneficiaries who have been divorced for less than 18 months is…

03 Oct

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas

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Although both writing and coding modes give the choice of requesting in-line edits, the bifurcated user interface for canvas is designed with one additional set of shortcuts for those focused on AI-assisted writing and another for coders. In the demo, Levine showed off how the writer’s shortcut could be used to condense the number of words in a canvas or attempt to perform a “final polish” on the draft. He also used one of the more lighthearted shortcuts to add a bunch of random emojis. On the coder’s side, ChatGPT can add logs, comments, and attempt to troubleshoot problems in…

27 Sep

China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen

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Chinese regulators likely learned from the EU AI Act, says Jeffrey Ding, an assistant professor of Political Science at George Washington University. “Chinese policymakers and scholars have said that they've drawn on the EU's Acts as inspiration for things in the past.”But at the same time, some of the measures taken by the Chinese regulators aren’t really replicable in other countries. For example, the Chinese government is asking social platforms to screen the user-uploaded content for AI. “That seems something that is very new and might be unique to the China context,” Ding says. “This would never exist in the…

25 Sep

Frontiers | The application of natural language processing for the extraction of mechanistic information in toxicology

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IntroductionThe toxicity of a stressor (e.g., compound or environmental stressor such as radiation) is defined by its potential for causing harmful effects on an individual, a population, or ecosystem (ecotoxicity). In this report, we will focus on the organism level. Traditionally, the toxic potential of a stressor is evaluated by performing tests on animals, in particular mammals, and assuming the obtained results can be extrapolated to humans. This approach is being increasingly questioned for two main reasons. First, the ethicality of sacrificing millions of animals each year (Fernandes and Pedroso, 2017). Second, it is becoming increasingly clear that the effects…

24 Sep

The AI Boom Is Raising Hopes of a Nuclear Comeback

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For five years, reactor one at Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Pennsylvania has lain dormant. Now, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, the reactor will start running again in 2028—this time to exclusively supply the tech firm with oodles of low-carbon electricity.It’s all part of an ongoing flirtation between Big Tech and nuclear power. In March, Amazon Web Services agreed to buy a data center powered by Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. At an event at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned small modular nuclear reactors as one potential source of energy…

20 Sep

Xavier Niel, a Driving Force of French AI, Is Now Shaping TikTok

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If Europe wants to compete with Asia and the US on AI, he believes the continent has to act now. “If you want to create a search engine now from scratch, you cannot win because you were not there 25 years ago,” he says, noting this window to compete on AI will also close.In one way or another, Niel is connected to almost all of France’s rising startup stars. In Mistral AI, valued at €5.8 billion ($6.4bn), he’s an investor. The same goes for H, another new AI company. Scaleway, the cloud provider used by Mistral, is an Iliad subsidiary,…

19 Sep

Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules

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A group of sex industry professionals and advocates issued an open letter to EU regulators on Thursday, claiming that their views are being overlooked in vital discussions on policing AI technology despite also being implicated in AI’s momentous rise.In response to European internet regulations, a collective of adult industry members—including sex workers, erotic filmmakers, sex tech enterprises, and sex educators—urged the European Commission to include them in future negotiations shaping AI regulations, according to the letter, seen by WIRED.The group includes erotic filmmaker Erika Lust’s company as well as the European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance campaign group, and is signed…