I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet
They had models guess, for example, who would win the NBA Championship and who President Trump would meet with.“Very quickly ...
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An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding
On Thursday morning, as the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) began the second day of its annual conference in Mexico ...
AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science
Last week, I attended a talk at MIT by Neil Thompson, who studies progress in computing and artificial intelligence. Over ...
Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
Say you’re a guy who reads WIRED—you know a thing or two about artificial intelligence. You recognize the names of ...
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Some big AI companies seem to think that the best way to keep models from becoming too chaotic or too ...
A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records
Academic libraries across the globe are stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments. Though many are so ...
A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Computer scientists recently discovered a way to extract the hidden “thinking” that frontier AI models perform as they work through ...
AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet
If you think an artificial intelligence model running on thousands of cutting-edge computer chips is smart, allow me to introduce ...
I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You
These days, the frontier AI labs are all racing to build self-improving models. Some believe it’s the surest route to ...
This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Reports of an artificial intelligence arms race are everywhere—even in this very publication. But what if that framing is fundamentally ...
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