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- What AI Thinks It Knows About You
Large language models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, and DeepSeek can be so fluent that people feel it as a “you,” and it answers encouragingly as an “I.” The models can write poetry in nearly any given form, read a set of political speeches and promptly sift out and share all the jokes, draw a chart, code a website.How do they do these and so many other things that were just recently the sole realm of humans? Practitioners are left explaining jaw-dropping conversational rabbit-from-a-hat extractions with arm-waving that the models are just predicting one word at a time from an unthinkably large training set scraped from every recorded written or spoken human utterance that can be found—fair enough—or a with a small shrug and a cryptic utterance of “fine-tuning” or “transformers!”These aren’t very satisfying answers for how these models can converse so intelligently, and how they sometimes err so weirdly.… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI GarbageAt first glance, “Heat Index” appears as inoffensive as newspaper features get. A “summer guide” sprawling across more than 50 pages, the feature, which was syndicated over the past week in both the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer, contains “303 Must-Dos, Must-Tastes, and Must-Tries” for the sweaty months ahead. Readers are advised in one section to “Take a moonlight hike on a well-marked trail” and “Fly a kite on a breezy afternoon.” In others, they receive tips about running a lemonade stand and enjoying “unexpected frozen treats.”Yet close readers of the guide noticed that something was very off. “Heat Index” went viral earlier today when people on social media pointed out that its summer-reading guide matched real authors with books they hadn’t written, such as Nightshade Market, attributed to Min Jin Lee, and The Last Algorithm, attributed to Andy Weir—a hint that the story may have been composed by… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- A Phone That Blocks All of the Bad StuffOn a recent commute to work, I texted my distant family about our fantasy baseball league, which was nice because I felt connected to them for a second. Then I switched apps and became enraged by a stupid opinion I saw on X, which I shouldn’t be using anymore due to its advanced toxicity and mind-numbing inanity. Many minutes passed before I was able to stop reading the stupid replies to the stupid original post and relax the muscles of my face.This is the duality of the phone: It connects me to my loved ones, and sometimes I think it’s ruining my life. I need it and I want it, but sometimes I hate it and I fear it. Many people have to navigate this problem—and it may be at its worst for parents, who’ve recently been drowned in media suggesting that smartphones and social media might be harming their… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- ‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’
In the summer of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, was meeting with a group of new researchers at the company. By all traditional metrics, Sutskever should have felt invincible: He was the brain behind the large language models that helped build ChatGPT, then the fastest-growing app in history; his company’s valuation had skyrocketed; and OpenAI was the unrivaled leader of the industry believed to power the future of Silicon Valley. But the chief scientist seemed to be at war with himself.Sutskever had long believed that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, was inevitable—now, as things accelerated in the generative-AI industry, he believed AGI’s arrival was imminent, according to Geoff Hinton, an AI pioneer who was his Ph.D. adviser and mentor, and another person familiar with Sutskever’s thinking. (Many of the sources in this piece requested anonymity in order to speak freely about OpenAI without fear… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - The Day Grok Told Everyone about ‘White Genocide’Yesterday, a user on X saw a viral post of Timothée Chalamet celebrating courtside at a Knicks game and had a simple question: Who was sitting next to him? The user tapped in Grok, X’s proprietary chatbot, as people often do when they want help answering questions on the platform—the software functions like ChatGPT, except it can be summoned via reply to a post. And for the most part, Grok has performed reasonably well at providing responses. But not yesterday. Chalamet was sitting with Kylie and Kendall Jenner, but here is how the chatbot replied: “I believe you’re referring to a photo with Timothée Chalamet, but the context you mention doesn’t seem to align with this image. The post discusses South African politics, which doesn’t relate to Timothée or the people around him.” Nothing in the photo or post referenced South Africa or politics.Grok spit out similar answers to many… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- Trump’s Tactical Burger Unit Is Beyond ParodyThe first months of Donald Trump’s second presidency have included a systematic attempt to dismantle government agencies and pillage their data; state-sponsored renditions of immigrants; flagrant corruption; and brazen flouting of laws and the courts. The New York Times editorial board summed it up well: “The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction.”But let us also not forget how extremely dumb this term has been. We now inhabit a world beyond parody, where the pixels of reality seem to glitch and flicker. Consider the following report from Trump’s state visit to Saudi Arabia this week, posted by the foreign-affairs journalist Olga Nesterova: “As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.” A skeptical news consumer might be inclined to pause… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
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