Yuval Noah Harari on whether democracy and AI can coexist

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<img alt="A man in a light-colored dress shirt gestures as he speaks in front of a digital screen; a colorful bouquet of flowers in the foreground covers part of his torso." data-caption="Israeli historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari speaks at the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum on July 9, 2017, in Hangzhou in China’s Zhejiang Province. | Visual China Group via Getty Images” data-portal-copyright=”Visual China Group via Getty Images” data-has-syndication-rights=”1″…

What it means that new AIs can “reason”

Posted by: . Posted on: September 20, 2024 Comments: 0

In this photo illustration, the sign of OpenAl o1, the first in a planned series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, is displayed on a smartphone screen on September 13, 2024, in Suqian, Jiangsu Province of China. An underappreciated fact about large language models (LLMs) is that they produce “live” answers to prompts. You prompt them and they start talking in response, and they…

The new followup to ChatGPT is scarily good at deception

Posted by: . Posted on: September 14, 2024 Comments: 0

OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, is trying something different. Its newly released AI system isn’t just designed to spit out quick answers to your questions, it’s designed to “think” or “reason” before responding.  The result is a product — officially called o1 but nicknamed Strawberry — that can solve tricky logic puzzles, ace math tests, and write code for new video games. All of which is pretty cool.  Here are some…

Why the SpaceX spacewalk is such a huge deal

Posted by: . Posted on: September 12, 2024 Comments: 0

The privately funded Polaris Dawn mission lifted off on September 10 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. | Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis completed the first privately funded spacewalk Thursday — a critical aspect of a risky, somewhat troubled mission designed to test new SpaceX technology, gather valuable data about high-altitude space travel, and generally push the limits of space exploration. …