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willknight.bsky.social
Bayesian agent learning to support its own agency. Signal = wak.01.
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My latest for @wired.com; AI researchers propose a new way of reporting dangerous flaws in big AI morels: www.wired.com/story/ai-res...

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Will all the money supposedly being saved be returned to taxpayers somehow? Or might it perhaps justify some wildly expensive new project like a manned mission to Mars?

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Thank you @knibbs.bsky.social for taking over WIRED's AI newsletter again this week. You can read her excellent dispatch, on an interesting new AI search tool featuring something called "humans", here: www.wired.com/story/this-n... (Also, please subscribe).

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited that @knightcolumbia.org used our AI Elections Project at @wired.com as the basis for their analysis. knightcolumbia.org/blog/we-look... You can check out the project here: www.wired.com/story/genera...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

every time i take over the AI newsletter from @willknight.bsky.social i defile it in some way...today's no different! www.wired.com/story/onlyfa...

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Hello new friends!! I'm Louise, I'm an editor @wired.com. I have a scoop to share today from me and @willknight.bsky.social: The Biden administration is gonna announce a sweeping set of new export controls on Monday designed to strangle China's AI industry www.wired.com/story/memory...

submitted 114 days ago • 3 comments

The video game Oasis (not sure if it's a nod to Ready Player One) is entirely generated by an AI model, which means you can explore by tricking the underlying model into hallucinating new scenes--a fevered kind of generative lucid-dreaming. www.wired.com/story/first-...

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

Bluesky nuked an account that was impersonating this one within 24-hours. I'm impressed given how much traffic they are suddenly seeing.

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: People who work in surveillance agencies in China are selling their access to citizens' highly personal information to anyone who offers to buy it. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chines...

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments

Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team, @mcuban.bsky.social, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and more from the biggest names in technology, business, and science are joining us IRL at the #WIREDBigInterview event on Dec. 3 in San Francisco. Join us!! www.wired.com/story/thebig...

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

Brad Porter, CEO of Cobot, announced their new wheeled warehouse robot Proxie today. As I am quoted near the end of this piece, wheels make so much more sense than legs for moving stuff any distance in a warehouse. Congratulations to Brad and Cobot. www.wired.com/story/robot-...

submitted 121 days ago • 3 comments

we've got our newsroom on bluesky skeeting. absolute skeeters out here. let's go:

submitted 126 days ago • 7 comments

I recently visited Physical Intelligence, a $400 million funded startup that aims to bring artificial intelligence into the real world. The company is making progress towards a master algorithm for robot control and building some remarkable home robots. www.wired.com/story/physic...

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

What will AI imagine the world to look like? @willknight.bsky.social spent time this week playing an AI game based on Minecraft data, and boy did it not know what to do about his cat (gif in the story) www.wired.com/story/first-...

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments

My new signature . DO NOT copy

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Become ungovernable

submitted 678 days ago • 14 comments

Really important service journalism here from @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social on how to protect yourself and your sources before Trump's new regime takes control.... www.wired.com/story/the-wi...

submitted 130 days ago • 13 comments

oh my god there's a chinese knockoff of the cybertruck and somehow the cybertruck looks like a cheap knockoff of it www.carscoops.com/2024/05/dong...

submitted 268 days ago • 159 comments

What Trump's win means for tech. A look at trade, artificial intelligence, antitrust, social platforms, crypto, and TikTok. Written by @laurengoode.bsky.social @peard33.bsky.social and me. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

This excellent piece was published while I was offline late last week, but if you're at all interested in the business of Reddit, this is hands down the best piece out there on it. @peard33.bsky.social and Robert Peck have the deep dive www.wired.com/story/inside...

submitted 368 days ago • 0 comments

From earlier today... After suing OpenAI for being too closed, Elon Musk has said he will release Grok. It's could help attract developers to his project but will likely also see him wade into the debate concerning the risks of open models. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 375 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know I cohost a podcast on Wired once a week with @laurengoode.bsky.social? Because it's truuuue. This week we talk to @willknight.bsky.social about Nvidia and its central role in the AI boom. Good talk, worth a listen! www.wired.com/story/gadget...

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Elon Musk's lawsuit against his OpenAI depends on the out-there claim that GPT-4 is, in fact, artificial general intelligence AGI, defined as "a machine having intelligence for a wide variety of tasks like a human." Many experts would probably beg to differ. www.wired.com/story/wild-c...

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