AI/ML News

Anthropic warns of AI ‘worms’ spreading across smart gadgets

Small artificial intelligence models may be only months away from being able to behave like a computer worm, copying themselves…

3 weeks ago

I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine

My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent…

4 weeks ago

Coordinated software tools could cut AI training energy use by up to 50%

Around half of the energy used to train AI can be saved without affecting speed or performance, using software developed…

4 weeks ago

I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

4 weeks ago

AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they…

4 weeks ago

A new approach to sustainable AI: Offloading part of the computational burden onto light

As artificial intelligence technologies become increasingly widespread, the growing demand for processing power and energy is emerging as a global…

4 weeks ago

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe

The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

4 weeks ago

AI image watermarks can survive new model training, but durability varies by design

Watermarks are increasingly being used to make AI-generated images recognizable and to ensure their origin can be traced. Previous research…

4 weeks ago

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used…

4 weeks ago

Simple math formula predicts when AI chatbots will go rogue

Most of us now carry in our pockets devices capable of running small AI chatbots. These chatbots have little safety…

4 weeks ago