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AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage

“You can certainly imagine that the same happens with machine learning models,” he says. “So if the first model has seen half of the internet, then perhaps the second model is not... Read more »

The Download: Chinese LLMs, and transforming heavy-duty trucking

When police departments first started buying and deploying bodycams in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a decade ago, activists hoped it would bring about real... Read more »

Why Chinese companies are betting on open-source AI

Catch up with China 1. While a Windows system outage disrupted computers across the world on Friday, China was largely unaffected. Instead of the CrowdStrike software that caused the chaos, Chinese companies... Read more »

How battery-powered trailers could transform trucking

Range trailers can also significantly improve emissions of NOx pollutants, which are harmful for human health. In fact, they can have an outsize impact, since NOx emissions tend to be highest during... Read more »

The Download: AI’s self-regulation promises, and predicting the weather

One year ago, seven leading AI companies—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—committed with the White House to a set voluntary commitments on how to develop AI in a safe and... Read more »

How to access Chinese LLM chatbots across the world

For users in the West, finding these Chinese models and trying them out can feel challenging, owing to language barriers and registration requirements. And indeed, there are still hoops to jump through... Read more »

How’s AI self-regulation going?

But AI nerds may remember that exactly a year ago, on July 21, 2023, Biden was posing with seven top tech executives at the White House. He’d just negotiated a deal where... Read more »

AI companies promised to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?

RESULT: Good. This is an encouraging result overall. While watermarking remains experimental and is still unreliable, it’s still good to see research around it and a commitment to the C2PA standard. It’s... Read more »

AI companies promised the White House to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?

RESULT: Good. This is an encouraging result overall. While watermarking remains experimental and is still unreliable, it’s still good to see research around it and a commitment to the C2PA standard. It’s... Read more »

Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics

While new machine-learning techniques that predict weather by learning from years of past data are extremely fast and efficient, they can struggle with long-term predictions. General circulation models, on the other hand,... Read more »