North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official
North Korea is escalating its cyber capabilities by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI), according to Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger.Read More
Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Working—for Now
A tough campaign to squash password-sharing appears to be working, according to Netflix’s latest earnings report.
Chatbots reveal troubling ability to infer private data
The ability of chatbots to infer private details about users from otherwise innocuous texts is a cause for concern, say Swiss university researchers at ETH Zurich.
PyTorch ExecuTorch extends open source AI for new quests at the edge
ExecuTorch was validated and vetted by actual real-world engineering problems and Meta has already proven the technology with deployment.Read More
Insiders Say X’s Crowdsourced Anti-Disinformation Tool Is Making the Problem Worse
X is promoting Community Notes to solve its disinformation problems, but some former employees and people who currently contribute notes say it’s not fit for that purpose.
New technique helps robots pack objects into a tight space
Anyone who has ever tried to pack a family-sized amount of luggage into a sedan-sized trunk knows this is a hard problem. Robots struggle with dense packing tasks, too.
‘Starfield’ Dev Bethesda Just Lost Peter Hines, One of Its Most Important Executives
After 24 years with the company and the launch of Starfield, Peter Hines, Bethesda’s head of publishing, is leaving.
A method to interpret AI might not be so interpretable after all
As autonomous systems and artificial intelligence become increasingly common in daily life, new methods are emerging to help humans check that these systems are behaving as expected. One method, called formal specifications, uses mathematical formulas that can be translated into natural-language expressions. Some researchers claim that this method can be used to spell out decisions …
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Google adds AI image generation to Search — but there’s a catch
The new feature is available only for those who have already opted into Google Search Labs, the company’s experimental beta testing service.Read More
Scientists begin building AI for scientific discovery using tech behind ChatGPT
An international team of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have launched a new research collaboration that will leverage the same technology behind ChatGPT to build an AI-powered tool for scientific discovery.