Futurism

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.

It was all smoke and mirrors.