You learn a lot about people by hanging out with robots. QT made it plain to me how much human interaction depends on tiny movements and subtle changes in timing. Even when armed with the latest artificial intelligence language models, QT can’t play the social game. Its face expresses emotion, it understands words and spits … Read more
Personally, I think you should spend your holiday season reading all of WIRED’s standout features. Start here, work backward. Have fun! But fine, if you insist on spending some of that time with family or friends, we’ve also come up with 11 picks for more focused perusal. Not necessarily the best or most popular stories—as … Read more
Once we get computers to match human-level intelligence, they won’t stop there. With deep knowledge, machine-level mathematical abilities, and better algorithms, they’ll create superintelligence, right? Yeah, there’s no question that machines will eventually be smarter than humans. We don’t know how long it’s going to take—it could be years, it could be centuries. At that … Read more
“Did you learn things in CIA training about withstanding interrogation that are going to make it harder for me to interview you?” I asked Joe Weisberg, creator of the TV espionage drama The Americans and onetime CIA agent. He looked momentarily startled, as though he’d expected this to be easier. Good, I had him where … Read more
In hindsight, zhenya Podtikov realized, he should have known that Ukraine’s first Vector drone was not long for this world. But when it arrived at an army base in Lviv, in April 2022, he couldn’t help admiring it. “I was just surprised that drone hardware could look so good,” he said. The Vector came in … Read more
In the center of Siena, Italy, a cathedral has stood for nearly 800 years. A black-and-white layer cake of heavy stone, fine-cut statuary, and rich mosaics, the imposing structure—now visited by more than a million tourists each year—would seem to be a permanent fixture of the city’s past, present, and future. Most people call it, … Read more
Gleevec was authorised simply because the Human Genome Challenge was wrapping up, and it served as Exhibit A for many who have been on the lookout for proof that the period of gene-guided well being care had arrived. Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Challenge, spotlighted Gleevec on the venture’s celebratory conclusion. Gleevec was … Read more
Are you utilizing generative AI at Uber? AI is a part of the Uber DNA. We use massive fashions to foretell your ETA, to course of paperwork that drivers add, to foretell your subsequent order on Uber Eats, or to foretell whether or not somebody needs an UberX driver or Consolation, Black, or Electrical. With … Read more
A yr in the past, the thought of holding a significant dialog with a pc was the stuff of science fiction. However since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched final November, life has began to really feel extra like a techno-thriller with a fast-moving plot. Chatbots and different generative AI instruments are starting to profoundly change how folks … Read more
SATYA NADELLA: Once we went from GPT 2.5 to three, all of us began seeing these emergent capabilities. It started displaying scaling results. We did not prepare it on simply coding, however it received actually good at coding. That is after I turned a believer. I believed, “Wow, that is actually on.” Was there a … Read more