Or so says a controversial Stanford researcher, who finds that the latest systems have, against all odds, mastered a high-level cognitive skill.
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This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robots
Physical Intelligence, a well-funded startup chasing breakthroughs in robotic intelligence, has developed a robot capable of doing various household chores remarkably well.
The EU Is Investigating Temu for Illegal Products and Addictive Design
Toys, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics are suspected to be among the noncompliant products available to the Chinese shopping platform’s 90 million European users.
Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else
The race for better generative AI is also a race for more computing power. On that score, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta appears to be winning.
Europe’s Big Tech Hawks Brace for a Post-Biden Future
European ambitions to reign in the US tech giants depend on the outcome of the election—and the fate of antitrust firebrand Lina Khan.
AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
The blogging platform Medium is facing an influx of AI-generated content. CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.
A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot
Silicon Valley A-listers are funding Pacific Fusion, a startup that founding CEO Eric Lander says will have a full-scale demonstration system within a decade.
Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results
The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races.
Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network
Inspired by microscopic worms, Liquid AI’s founders developed a more adaptive, less energy-hungry kind of neural network. Now the MIT spin-off is revealing several new ultraefficient models.
Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer
Claude is the first major AI model to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work.