Once you find a program, the instructions for enrollment may be as simple as clicking through an app, filling out a utility form, or confirming your account and device information through a... Read more »

The company’s public relations staffer sent me a spreadsheet of the supposed benefits experienced by the participants, including improved vision in a 64-year-old female, longer landscaping sessions for a 59-year-old man, longer... Read more »

1 Meta has promised to pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety caseThe company says it will also limit kids’ use of Instagram and Facebook. (AP News)+ And ban... Read more »

The company is going all in on simplicity, to the point of austerity. The Slate is a tiny, two-door pickup that’s shorter than a Honda Civic. Much of the media coverage has... Read more »

If OpenAI stops reinforcing reward hacking in its models—and that’s a huge “if”—that would be a huge step forward. But it wouldn’t solve the alignment problem. The first time a model communicated... Read more »

A surprising—maybe troubling—number of people who work in big tech also keep their kids at arm’s distance from technology. They lock down their phones, if they have phones at all, and keep... Read more »

Increasing Complexity In some cases, whether an LLM can complete a puzzle is a matter of scale. One study from researchers at Apple found that LLMs can ace simple versions of the... Read more »

What happened? I watched the promise of the early internet give way to the reality of its potential for abuse. I myself was already fully in the throes of smartphone and social... Read more »

So everyone’s concerned about these negative effects, and everyone said that when we got to these thresholds, that we would do things. We’re crossing the thresholds, and we have voluntary review, and... Read more »