Before the internet learned to like, match, and swipe, it learned to ask one brutally simple question: hot or not? Launched in 2000, Hot or Not invited people to upload photographs of themselves and be rated by strangers on a scale from 1 to 10. It was crude, addictive, and, within weeks, one of the
Facebook owner Meta says an error during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation’s system. The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI industry, including breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, that have raised cyber-security concerns. A Meta
Two from OpenAI Cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a sandbox this week and hacked AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Additionally, this week researchers shed light on newly identified malware that is exploiting blind spots in AI software development infrastructure to capture logins and other sensitive data,
My son was 11 years old when he volunteered to be the boy soloist at the school Christmas concert. Nobody else would do it. That alone made me proud. He was standing there looking like a young Aled Jones, and he was magnificent. The school hall was full. Other parents leaned forward in their plastic
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models simply don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great with text, but are less adept at understanding how things actually move through space and time, an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. It turns out that gap could
a sunday At night, in the middle of Tompkins Square Park in New York City’s East Village, hundreds of people gather in front of a giant paper mache face of a woman wearing a crown. She is the backdrop of a play, her body is made up of curtains that look like a dress but