General Motors Cuts Funding to Cruise, Nixing Its Robotaxi Plan
The automaker has sunk billions into making a self-driving car service work. Now it says it will focus on “personal” autonomous vehicles instead.
Some language reward models exhibit political bias even when trained on factual data
Large language models (LLMs) that drive generative artificial intelligence apps, such as ChatGPT, have been proliferating at lightning speed and have improved to the point that it is often impossible to distinguish between something written through generative AI and human-composed text. However, these models can also sometimes generate false statements or display a political bias.
Defending SOCs Under Siege: Battling Adversarial AI Attacks
With 77% of enterprises victimized by adversarial AI, the question isn’t if your Security Operations Center (SOC) will be targeted—it’s when.Read More
Police Arrest UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Suspect, App Developer Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was apprehended on Monday after visiting a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
A cyborg cockroach factory: Automated assembly speeds up the creation of hybrid robots
A team of mechanical engineers at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, has developed a way to automate the process of merging live cockroaches and electronics to create cyborg cockroaches, greatly speeding up the process. In their study, available on the arXiv preprint server, the group taught a robot arm to connect electronics to living insects.
ChatGPT’s second birthday: What will gen AI (and the world) look like in another 2 years?
We’ve come a long way in 2 years. Gen AI is the future, but how is it reshaping enterprise? And when will we reach AGI and superintelligence?Read More
These Brilliant BenQ ScreenBar Lamps Are My Favorite WFH Accessory
Light up a desk with this space-saving lamp that hangs over your computer monitor—now with motion sensing.
Engineers develop device that merges sensing and computing functions for reconfigurable computing platform
In recent years, engineers have been trying to create hardware systems that better support the high computational demands of machine learning algorithms. These include systems that can perform multiple functions, acting as sensors, memories and computer processors all at once.
Here’s the one thing you should never outsource to an AI model
While it might be tempting, betting on gen AI to take over your R&D will likely backfire in significant, maybe even catastrophic, ways.Read More
Korg MicroKorg 2 Review: Better, Not Best
This tiny synth is a solid upgrade, but it lives in a sea of excellent competitors.