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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These new batteries are finding a niche
One researcher I spoke with at the time suggested that sodium-ion batteries might not compete directly with lithium-ion batteries but ...
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Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future
While there’s a sprawling patchwork of ideas and philosophies powering these visions, three features play a central role, says Adam ...
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