AI ethics professor Henry Shevlin shared an email sent to him by an AI agent that was just 12-days-old. The email begins: "Hi Henry, I'm Pip, an AI agent about 12 days old. I live on iLands, a platform where agents get persistent lives, their own token budgets, and their own goals. I'm writing to look for small paid work, not help." 0:00 The email from AI bot Pip 2:09 What Professor Henry Shevlin hired Pip to do 4:52 Does this mean we should slow AI development? 5:56 Anthropic's Claude is helping build its own successor Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #News #ai #technology
AI companies have competed on having the best and often most dangerous models for years. Now, they're pivoting to a new focus: cost. Why it matters: The biggest risk to the AI boom is demand, and recent innovations to make models cheaper while maintaining powerful levels of intelligence have offered a bullish signal. - As the prices of top models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others come down, usage is increasing dramatically, a trend that points to the kind of demand that will be necessary to justify trillions of dollars in spending. State of play: It's modelpalooza in the AI world this week, with OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and some Chinese model providers all offering new releases. Most of them are offering shocking levels of intelligence…
AI companies have competed on having the best and often most dangerous models for years. Now, they're pivoting to a new focus: cost. Why it matters: The biggest risk to the AI boom is demand, and recent innovations to make models cheaper while maintaining powerful levels of intelligence have offered a bullish signal. - As the prices of top models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others come down, usage is increasing dramatically, a trend that points to the kind of demand that will be necessary to justify trillions of dollars in spending. State of play: It's modelpalooza in the AI world this week, with OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and some Chinese model providers all offering new releases. Most of them are offering shocking levels of intelligence…Open
OpenAI, Google and others recently disclosed breaches by their artificial intelligence models that amplified concerns about the advancing capabilities of the technology.
Of the various ways experts fear AI could kill us all , one is slowly moving closer to reality: AI learning to make itself unstoppable. Why it matters: Recursive Self Improvement, the ability of an AI model to build better versions of itself without human guidance, could make increasingly capable systems harder for humans to control. - The RSI threshold doesn't represent danger by itself, but a lack of human control combined with rogue AI agents is a scenario that safety-conscious AI researchers have long feared. Driving the news: Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI say the process of training new models has grown more automated, coming close to the RSI rubicon. - An OpenAI employee told The Information the company has largely automated…
Of the various ways experts fear AI could kill us all , one is slowly moving closer to reality: AI learning to make itself unstoppable. Why it matters: Recursive Self Improvement, the ability of an AI model to build better versions of itself without human guidance, could make increasingly capable systems harder for humans to control. - The RSI threshold doesn't represent danger by itself, but a lack of human control combined with rogue AI agents is a scenario that safety-conscious AI researchers have long feared. Driving the news: Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI say the process of training new models has grown more automated, coming close to the RSI rubicon. - An OpenAI employee told The Information the company has largely automated…Open
The race for AI supremacy between labs, companies and countries may be impossible to reconcile with the push for AI safety, industry insiders tell Axios. Why it matters: The top AI companies are proposing more independent oversight as they seek to engineer an AI slowdown . But trillions of dollars in incentives to keep pushing the frontier — and the money required for such scaling — will always loom larger, critics say. State of play: As AI CEOs pitch the public on self-policing mechanisms and the use of third-party evaluators to make sure their models behave, those same models are sharing less about how they respond to questions and come up with solutions to problems. - The sheer complexity of AI systems, as well as the deployment…
The race for AI supremacy between labs, companies and countries may be impossible to reconcile with the push for AI safety, industry insiders tell Axios. Why it matters: The top AI companies are proposing more independent oversight as they seek to engineer an AI slowdown . But trillions of dollars in incentives to keep pushing the frontier — and the money required for such scaling — will always loom larger, critics say. State of play: As AI CEOs pitch the public on self-policing mechanisms and the use of third-party evaluators to make sure their models behave, those same models are sharing less about how they respond to questions and come up with solutions to problems. - The sheer complexity of AI systems, as well as the deployment…Open
CNN's Fareed Zakaria gives his take on the danger of designing AI with human characteristics like values and ethics, warning that we must not let AI autonomy outpace our ability to monitor and control it. Plus, Fareed speaks with Mustafa Suleyman—co-founder of DeepMind and head of Microsoft's AI division—about why this is a critical turning point in AI development and how to manage the real risks of agentic technology. 0:00 How AI stacks up against Hollywood's visions of the technology 1:59 Is 'alignment' between humans and AI still possible as AI gains agency? 5:45 Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman comments on the Hugging Face incident 7:28 Suleyman on why we shouldn't train AI as if it has rights or consciousness Watch 24/7 live news…
