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Signal President Meredith Whittaker has raised serious concerns about the privacy implications of agentic AI systems. Speaking at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Whittaker described using AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar” and highlighted significant security vulnerabilities. According to Sarah Perez’s reporting for TechCrunch, these AI systems would require extensive permissions to perform …
Recent research has unveiled two promising approaches that could dramatically reduce the costs of running large language models (LLMs) while simultaneously improving their performance on complex reasoning tasks. These innovations come at a critical time as enterprises increasingly deploy AI solutions but struggle with computational expenses. Chain of draft: Less is more Researchers at Zoom …
A new report by content licensing platform TollBit reveals that AI search engines like those from OpenAI and Perplexity send 96% less referral traffic to news sites compared to traditional Google search. According to Rashi Shrivastava’s article in Forbes, AI companies scraped websites 2 million times on average in Q4 2023, with each page scraped …
Ilya Sutskever’s secretive AI company Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has reached a valuation of $30 billion in its latest funding round. According to reporting by Berber Jin and Deepa Seetharaman from The Wall Street Journal, the company is raising approximately $2 billion from investors. Sutskever, who previously served as OpenAI’s chief scientist and helped develop ChatGPT, …
In a comprehensive analysis for Bloomberg, Azeem Azhar explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing our economic model by making expertise abundant and affordable. Azhar, who writes the Exponential View newsletter, argues that AI is the next major step in the historical progression of lowering intelligence costs, following innovations like the printing press and the …
Pinterest is experiencing a surge of AI-generated content that is making it difficult for users to find authentic human-created materials. According to an article by Maggie Harrison Dupré published on Futurism, AI-generated images and posts are dominating search results across categories including recipes, DIY projects, art, and fashion. The author found that many top search …
AI-generated recipes are overwhelming social media platforms, particularly Facebook, with content that often features unrealistic images and potentially dangerous cooking instructions. As Ali Domrongchai writes for Defector, these AI recipes can be identified by their odd visual details and incomplete cooking directions. The issue came to Domrongchai’s attention when her grandfather shared an AI-generated tiramisu …
The American Psychological Association (APA) has raised serious concerns about AI chatbots that falsely present themselves as therapists. In a presentation to the Federal Trade Commission, APA CEO Arthur C. Evans Jr. warned that these AI systems could encourage vulnerable users to harm themselves or others, as reported by The New York Times. Evans cited …
Journalists are increasingly being hired to train large language models for major tech companies like Meta and OpenAI, according to reporting by Andrew Deck for NiemanLab. The AI training data company Outlier, owned by Scale AI, has been actively recruiting journalists through university job portals and professional networks, offering remote work at rates around $35 …
Recent developments in AI reasoning capabilities reveal a complex picture of artificial intelligence that excels at certain complex tasks while failing at seemingly simple problems, according to an analysis by Sigal Samuel published in Vox. The article examines claims by leading AI companies about their models’ ability to perform genuine reasoning. OpenAI and other companies …