DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
SSA’s core “logic” is also written largely in COBOL. This is the code that issues social security numbers, manages payments,...
Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting
The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large language model, is not a human being, or...
If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in...
I Opted Out of AI Training. Does This Reduce My Future Influence?
If we all start opting out of our posts being used for training models, doesn't that reduce the influence of...
How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our...
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine learning trick that can...
Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers
Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains,...
How Software Engineers Actually Use AI
Will AI Fully Eat Programming Jobs One Day?Almost every coder we surveyed had strong opinions on the matter. Here’s ChatGPT’s...
How to Use Apple’s Image Playground to Generate AI Art
The same pop-up menu lets you change the style of your image too. Right now your options are Animation and...
