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Technology
Computing, artificial intelligence, platforms and the companies behind them.
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Of the 123 claims in Technology with evidence either way, 98% held up.
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“Irrational Treasure” will premiere on Sunday, which also happens to be Groening’s 72nd birthday.
On Sunday the series, the longest running American sitcom, will air its 800th episode on Fox.
China already has an automated social credit system they’re exporting to developing nations.
Anthropic considers it important to provide A.I. to the intelligence and defense communities in the U.S. and its democratic allies.
It makes sense to use A.I. to empower democracies to resist autocracies.
Sam Altman said in 2015, shortly before helping found OpenAI, “I think that A.I. will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world.
Mantic, a start-up whose A.I. engine outperforms many of the best human forecasters across domains from politics to sports to entertainment.
Mrinank Sharma, a safety researcher at Anthropic, quit with the sort of open letter than would have seemed wildly overwrought in a theatrical script.
Zoë Hitzig, a researcher at OpenAI, announced her resignation in The New York Times, describing the way the tool could use people’s intimate data to target them with ads.
Dario Amodei, who leads Anthropic, published an essay titled “The Adolescence of Technology,” about potential A.I. apocalypses.
Russia has the most targeted disinformation infrastructure known to man.
“Data” is a zippy Off Broadway play about the ethical crises of employees at a Palantir-like A.I. company.
The play is about a brilliant, conflicted computer programmer pulled into a secret project to win a Department of Homeland Security contract for a database tracking immigrants.
“Data is the language of our time,” says a data analytics manager named Alex, sounding a lot like the Palantir chief Alex Karp.
Its protagonist, Maneesh, has created an algorithm with frighteningly accurate predictive powers.
These technologies can strip away pleasure and leave children with little gratification.
Even the device itself morphs into a potent signal for people.
It represents a kind of “skeletal” version of a real social life, he says.
Dr. Montague has long had a rule that his teenage children can only use their phones in places where the family congregates, like the kitchen, never upstairs in their bedrooms.
Smartphones — as well as their social media platforms, texting apps and video games — can trick us into no longer seeking out what we need in our lives.
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Federal Aviation Administration officials are said to have raised concerns that the agency needed more time and information to assess the technology’s risk to commercial aircraft.
The New York Times
A new Super Bowl ad is raising questions about the power of doorbell cameras.
The New York Times
The notice of intent to sue alleges xAI built an illegal de facto power plant that is polluting Mississippi communities to power a data center.
Zoë Hitzig, a researcher at OpenAI, announced her resignation in The New York Times, describing the way the tool could use people’s intimate data to target them with ads.
The New York Times
Tech companies can pursue options that could keep these tools broadly available while limiting any company’s incentives to surveil, profile and manipulate its users.
The New York Times