Deveillance’s Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics....
I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ 人工智能 assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well....
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”...
In this episode, our hosts unpack the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, particularly as the 人工智能 industry has been entrenching itself with the Department of Defense....
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications....
ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 人工智能 video 模型 seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up....
The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission....
“Data centers … they need some PR help,”President Donald Trump said at the event....
While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of 人工智能, Smack Technologies is 训练 模型 to plan battlefield operations....
Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad....
The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the 人工智能 company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after E...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 10 Things That Matter in 人工智能 Right Now For years, MIT Technology Review’s newsroom has been ahead of the curve, tracking the dev...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Online harassment is entering its 人工智能 era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an 人工智能 智能体’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a softwa...
The race to prevent the worst wildfires has been an increasingly high-tech one. Companies are proposing 人工智能 fire detection systems and drones that can stamp out early blazes. And now, one Canadian startup says it’s going after lightning. Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfir...
Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an 人工智能 智能体’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Like many open-source projects, matplotlib has been overwhelmed by a glut of 人工智能 code contributions, and so Shambaugh and his fellow maintainers have institute...
The transformational potential of 人工智能 is already well established. Enterprise use cases are building momentum and organizations are transitioning from pilot projects to 人工智能 in production. Companies are no longer just talking about 人工智能; they are redirecting budgets and resources to make it happen. Many ...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Listen to Earth’s rumbling, secret soundtrack The boom of a calving glacier. The crackling rumble of a wildfire. The roar of a surging storm front. Th...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires Startup Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent catastrophic fires...
On June 1, 2023, as a sweltering heat wave baked Quebec, thousands of lightning strikes flashed across the province, setting off more than 120 wildfires. The blazes ripped through parched forests and withered grasslands, burned for weeks, and compounded what was rapidly turning into Canada’s worst f...
Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."...
“Those who live in software land are about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”...
$100/hour, fully remote. Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of: bio, history, econ, math/physics, 人工智能/hardware....
Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Machines of Loving Grace, Max Hodak’s theory of consciousness, 神经 网络 训练 makes beautiful fractals...
The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture....
I’m confused why some people have short timelines and at the same time are bullish on the current scale up of 强化学习 atop LLMs. If we’re actually close to a human-like learner, this whole approach of 训练 on verifiable outcomes is doome...
Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up...
Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term...
“These 模型 somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”...
Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful 人工智能 datacenter in the world...
Plus, where Russia and China go from here...
Fab CapEx overhang, 1 GW a week, China privileged in long timelines, and much else...
Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be...
Daniel Dennett was right...
Will OpenAI someday be seen as the WeWork of 人工智能, as I have suggested several times, as far as back as late 2023? I still think so, and I think that moment is drawing close. They have, by any reasonable standard, seen rough times of late. Google and Anthropic have each largely caught up; various Chin...
I just sent the February edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. In this...
Because I write about LLMs (and maybe because of my em dash text replacement code) a lot of people assume that the writing on my blog is partially or fully created by those LLMs.
My current policy on this is that if text expres...
I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a single code block so I can easily copy it....
Agentic Engineering Patterns >
When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt.
For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fet...
An 人工智能 智能体 编程 skeptic tries 人工智能 智能体 编程, in excessive detail
Another in the genre of "OK, 编程 agents got good in November" posts, this one is by Max Woolf and is very much worth your time. He describes a...Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch() HTTP range requests
Here's a little prototype I built this morning from my phone as an experiment in HTTP range requests, and a general example of using LLMs ...“The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”...
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare...
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of 人工智能....
I am not alone in seriously doubting it...
”No 大语言模型, anywhere, in its current form, should be considered for use in a fully lethal autonomous weapon system. It's ludicrous even to suggest it.”...
Questions for developers:
- “What’s the one area you’re afraid to touch?”
- “When’s the last time you deployed on a Friday?”
- “What broke in production in the last 90 days...
Agentic Engineering Patterns >
The defining characteristic of a 编程 智能体 is that it can execute the code that it writes. This is what makes 编程 agents so much more useful than LLMs ...
Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager
Adnan Khan describes a devious attack chain against the Cline GitHub repository, which started with a 提示词 injection at...