Futurism

According to a recently-released working paper by a pair of economists at the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen that was spotted by Fortune, it’s not looking great. After analyzing data about 25,000 workers across 7,000 workspaces, users of AI only saved on average three percent of time. And only a meager three […]

A recent report by the Oxford Economics Group found that unemployment rates among recent college grads in the U.S. are rising, suggesting that “entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates.” Among 22 to 27 year olds, work in STEM industries like computer science is down 8 percent from 2022, signaling a […]

In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a group of authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has argued that its alleged scraping of over seven million books from the pirated library LibGen constituted “fair use” of […]

In a new preprint study awaiting peer review, researchers report that in a three-party version of a Turing test, in which participants chat with a human and an AI at the same time and then evaluate which is which, OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model was deemed to be the human 73 percent of the time when it […]

In a startling admission, a senior defense official is laying bare the Pentagon’s accelerating interest in autonomous killer robots. Speaking to Defense One, which didn’t print the official’s name so that they could speak freely, that official said that the Pentagon is looking to move away from funding research on the topic and investing in […]

During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel’s show this week, Nadella offered a reality check. “Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me,” Nadella told Patel. Instead, the CEO argued that we should be looking at whether AI is generating real-world value instead of mindlessly running after fantastical ideas […]

Researchers at New York University have found that if a mere 0.001 percent of the training data of a given LLM is “poisoned,” or deliberately planted with misinformation, the entire training set becomes likely to propagate errors.

A new study conducted by Forbes reveals how Waymo, a leader in the robotaxi industry, still lags considerably behind human-driven ridesharing services in two key transportation metrics: time and money.

As the world is still reeling from a massive IT outage triggered by a faulty security software update by CrowdStrike that forced Windows machines to crash, Microsoft is trying to pick up the pieces.