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Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice.According to a bug…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI…

It was Meta itself that first told me about the new book attacking Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the allegedly bankrupt morals of their company. On March 7, a Meta PR person contacted me to ask if I’d heard about Careless People, a…

In late 2023, a team of third party researchers discovered a troubling glitch in OpenAI’s widely used artificial intelligence model GPT-3.5.When asked to repeat certain words a thousand times, the model began repeating the word over and…

In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of today’s best AI is that, for now, it remains squarely trapped inside the chat window.Google…

Chatbots are now a routine part of everyday life, even if artificial intelligence researchers are not always sure how the programs will behave.A new study shows that the large language models (LLMs) deliberately change their behavior when…

Marc Raibert, the founder and chairman of Boston Dynamics, gave the world a menagerie of two- and four-legged machines capable of jaw-dropping parkour, infectious dance routines, and industrious shelf stacking.Raibert is now looking to lead…

“I’ve defended you guys so much over the years, and you make great products, but even I can’t stick up for you anymore,” she stated.Róbertsdóttir, now a software developer for Icelandic air traffic control company Isavia, started her…

But do you expect to find it difficult to bring about a new era at Binance when the founder—who is synonymous with the company—remains the largest shareholder?We are very clear in terms of what we are trying to build: a best-in-class,…

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Many of us have witnessed unusual and even antisocial behavior at an airport or on a flight. These may range from benign acts such as sleeping on the floor…