Watch Google DeepMind’s new AI agent learn to play video games
… It’s currently being released to some academics and developers as a limited research preview. …
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Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
… But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude’s carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability. …
Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy
… Correction, May 14th: The researcher is Josh Achiam, not Ackiam.
‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
… Generative AI is a relatively newer entrant into this area of research, but it holds incredible promise. As part of my job, I often speak with clinical researchers, and many of the breakthroughs in consumer health tech over the years are due in part to AI advances. …
ChatGPT’s upgraded voice mode is better at shutting up
… During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company’s “smartest voice model” yet. …
Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms
… Credit: Google The company says it’s also working with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and other researchers in the UK and Japan to improve its AI weather models. …
Anthropic backpedals on Fable safety measure
Anthropic has apologized for stealthily throttling its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, with hidden guardrails that undermine both researchers and rivals using it to develop competing systems. …
Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you
… The researchers point to “data append” services, for instance, that can gather disparate information on a person into a centralized profile — including theoretically anonymized material. …
The promises and pitfalls of personalized health
… I have to do the independent research and subject myself to the torture of consulting multiple doctors. …
Wearable health tech might be Tim Cook’s greatest legacy
… Launching the inaugural Apple Heart Study and the Apple Research app has opened several doors for clinical researchers. …