Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
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Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers
Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for…
The CPU Comeback Is Upon Us
Earlier this year, leaders at Amazon Web Services delivered a new mandate to their engineers: they need to conserve CPU cycles at all costs. AWS has…
When AI models aren’t allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview
A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights,…
OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups
OpenAI shut down its “Preparedness” team, which evaluated whether the company’s own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been parceled…
Anthropic’s bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests
In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During…
Optima tackles AI benchmarking’s biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared…
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they…
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