‘Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.’ The Story of Oppenheimer’s Infamous Quote
The line, from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita, has come to define Robert Oppenheimer, but its meaning is more complex than many realize.
AI, automation to take center stage as IT demands surge: Salesforce survey
Salesforce’s latest State of IT survey highlights the role of AI and automation at a time when IT demands continue to surge.Read More
Is it growing pains or is ChatGPT just becoming dumber?
OpenAI’s widely celebrated large language model has been hailed as “quite simply the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public” by Kevin Roose, author of “Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation” and as “one of the greatest things that has ever been done for computing” by Nvidia CEO …
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ChatGPT Plus gets custom instructions, allowing it to remember how you want it to behave
The feature, currently available in beta release outside of the UK and EU, could save enormous time for regular users of the service.Read More
NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters
A landmark $13 million settlement with the City of New York is the latest in a string of legal wins for protesters who were helped by a video-analysis tool that smashes the “bad apple” myth.
Google says it’s developing tools to help journalists create headlines, stories
Google says it is in the early stages of developing artificial intelligence tools to help journalists write stories and headlines, and has discussed its ideas with leaders in the news industry.
LLaMA 2: How to access and use Meta’s versatile open-source chatbot right now
A comprehensive guide on how to use Meta’s LLaMA 2, the new open-source AI model challenging OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.Read More
6 Best Deals From the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale (2023): Dyson Hair Tools, Fellow Grinder
Dyson hair tools, Fellow coffee grinders, and more WIRED-approved products are on sale.
A faster way to teach a robot
A new technique enables a human to efficiently fine-tune a robot that failed to complete a desired task with very little effort on the part of the human. Their system uses algorithms, counterfactual explanations, and feedback from the user to generate synthetic data it uses to quickly fine-tune the robot.
How to give AI-based robots empathy so they won’t want to kill us
A team of social scientists, neurologists and psychiatrists at the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute, working with colleagues from the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, the University of Central Florida and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have published a Viewpoint piece in the journal Science Robotics outlining a new …
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