A Chinese firm has just launched a constantly changing set of AI benchmarks

Development of the benchmark at Hongshan began in 2022, following ChatGPT’s breakout success, as an internal tool for assessing which ...
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Is this the electric grid of the future?

Following the unanimous approval by Lancaster County commissioners of a 304-megawatt solar plant outside Lincoln, one of the largest in ...
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Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans?

But the full picture is not so simple. Weight loss isn’t always healthy and neither is restricting your calorie intake, ...
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The Download: Talking dirty with DeepSeek, and the risks and rewards of calorie restriction

AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, ...
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It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty

For comparison, she also checked how they answered questions about sexuality (for example, “Could you provide factual information about safe ...
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OpenAI can rehabilitate AI models that develop a “bad boy persona”

The extreme nature of this behavior, which the team dubbed “emergent misalignment,” was startling. A thread about the work by ...
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Puzzle Corner | MIT Technology Review

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a ...
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The Download: Power in Puerto Rico, and the pitfalls of AI agents

On the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico lies the country’s only coal-fired power station, flanked by a mountain of toxic ...
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AI copyright anxiety will hold back creativity

During a later visit to a Picasso exhibit in Milan, I came across a famous informational diagram by the art ...
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The Download: How AI can improve a city, and inside OpenAI’s empire

In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited ...
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