Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been.

AI models such as GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, or Claude 3 Opus rely on the many trillions of words shared online to get smarter, but as they gradually colonize the internet with their own output ...

Large language model AIs might seem smart on a surface level but they struggle to actually understand the real world and model it accurately, a new study finds.

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, tensions ...

A similar thing happens with language models and others that, essentially, favor the most common data in their training set for answers — which, to be clear, is usually the right thing to do.

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A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” ...