The AI Fix #14: There are two Rs in “strawberry”, and an AI makes unsmellable smells

In episode 14 of “The AI Fix”, Graham makes an apology, Mark wonders if suicide drones have second thoughts, people pretend to be robots, and some researchers prove that all you need for an AI to generate a somewhat usable version of the computer game … Continue reading The AI Fix #14: There are two Rs in “strawberry”, and an AI makes unsmellable smells

Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024

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Why is it always a helium leak? It seems whenever there’s a scrubbed launch or a narrowly averted disaster, space exploration just can’t get past the problems of helium plumbing. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 1, 2024

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Deals With U.S. AI Safety Institute, Handing Over Frontier Models For Testing

OpenAI and Anthropic will give the U.S. government early access to their frontier models for safety evaluation. Continue reading OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Deals With U.S. AI Safety Institute, Handing Over Frontier Models For Testing

OpenAI Says ChatGPT Doubled its User Base to 200 Million Weekly Active Users in a Year

ChatGPT has crossed 200 million weekly active users and doubled its user base since last year, OpenAI said today.
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The AI Fix #13: ChatGPT runs for mayor, and should we stop killer robots?

In episode 13 of “The AI Fix””, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn’t pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, h… Continue reading The AI Fix #13: ChatGPT runs for mayor, and should we stop killer robots?

The AI Fix #12: AI made from human brain cells, and is there life after death?

In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on “do no evil”, and our hosts feel lik… Continue reading The AI Fix #12: AI made from human brain cells, and is there life after death?

OpenAI bans accounts linked to ‘covert Iranian influence operation’ 

The effort was part of a sprawling Iranian campaign to target U.S. elections unmasked by various tech companies in recent days.

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The AI Fix #11: AI gods, a robot dentist, and an angry human

In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there’s no sound on a video of an AI dentist.

Graham finds religion wit… Continue reading The AI Fix #11: AI gods, a robot dentist, and an angry human