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Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives
In a new paper published Thursday titled "Auditing language models for hidden objectives," Anthropic researchers…
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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
A brief history of AI refusals This isn't the first time we've encountered an AI…
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Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
Amodei's suggestion of giving AI models a way to refuse tasks drew immediate skepticism on…
OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
Developers using the Responses API can access the same models that power ChatGPT Search: GPT-4o…
Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts
"The biggest [drawback] is that they are probabilistic prediction machines, and will get it wrong…
Posted inAI AI assistants Biz & IT
What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.
On the Frontier Math benchmark by EpochAI, o3 solved 25.2 percent of problems, while no…
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Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
Corporate and diplomatic trends in AI writing According to the researchers, all sectors they analyzed…
AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence
But most of these predictions are coming from people working in companies with a commercial…
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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA's…
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet debuts with “extended thinking” to tackle complex problems
An example of Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking is asked, "Would the color be…