Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’
The organizations we recommend offer the best bang for the buck. That often means saving the lives of children under 5 who would otherwise die from preventable diseases. And look,...
Is AI the Future of NPCs?
Bloom, a non-player character with a face like a potato and a black beanie pulled tight around his ears, wants to know about my strategy and how I fare in...
A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims
Another image on the site showed a group of young teens who appear to be in middle school: a boy taking a selfie in what appears to be a school...
Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers compiled a list...
The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge
Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an AI revolution was brewing inside the US tech industry. The...
Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search
Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs. Srinivas remembers the moment seven years ago when an interview with Pichai popped up in...
The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations
Before he used AI tools to make his movies, Willonius Hatcher couldn’t get noticed. Now his AI-generated shorts are going viral and Hollywood is calling. Source
Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
In 2023, OpenAI told the UK parliament that it was “impossible” to train leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. It’s a popular stance in the AI world, where OpenAI...
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
The last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building 1945, they mostly worked in 1965 because it had a...
