Leading figures in the development of artificial intelligence systems, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, have signed a statement warning that the technology they are building may someday pose an existential threat to humanity comparable to that of nuclear war and pandemics. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should…
If you work a typical office job, even remotely, you probably spend more time than you’d like in meetings. Last year, a survey from the AI customer engagement company Dialpad found that 83 percent of 2,800 respondents said they spent four to 12 hours a week in meetings. If you’re a founder or executive, that…
Cars crashing into bollards, brakes slamming on to avoid imaginary collisions, and more than 2,400 complaints of cars accelerating out of their owner’s control. The 100 gigabytes worth of internal Tesla documents leaked to the German newspaper Handelsblatt present a sobering picture of the EV company’s technical limitations. The 23,000 files obtained by Handelsblatt cover issues…
I agree with every single one of those points, which can potentially guide us on the actual boundaries we might consider to mitigate the dark side of AI. Things like sharing what goes into training large language models like those behind ChatGPT, and allowing opt-outs for those who don’t want their content to be part of…
Leica’s third-generation premium compact camera has landed in the form of the fixed-lens Leica Q3, and it might just be Leica’s most compelling camera to date. The successor to the Leica Q2, the Q3 stays true to the rangefinder specialist’s minimalist heritage, but sports some of the most advanced features for photo and video I’ve…
Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of human tasks, including opening doors, operating power tools, and driving golf carts. Clips of them fumbling and stumbling through the Darpa Robotics Challenge soon went viral. DARPA via Will…
The Fujifilm X-S20 succeeds the X-S10 as Fujifilm’s mid-range mirrorless camera. It has a tough act to follow if it’s also going to be one of the best cameras for beginners, but on paper it manages to do that – for a price. On the outside there’s little to tell the two X-series cameras apart; both…
Gideon: OK. Lauren: It’s time for a pop quiz. Gideon: Oh no. Lauren: So you are the editor in chief here at WIRED, and you’ve been talking a lot about AI, so I wanted to see how good you are at telling regular human-made music apart from AI-generated music. Gideon: I mean, I can barely…
Adobe Photoshop has been the gold standard in photo editing for over three decades, so it was only a matter of time until it embraced the tricks seen in the best AI art generators – and it’s now done just that in the form of a new tool called Generative Fill. The new tool, which…
Google has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays, and swap out overcast skies for sunshine in otherwise perfect family photos. Today it’s showing off what similar tools could do for its core business—selling ads. New generative AI systems for advertising clients will compose text…