A study by Anthropic researchers on how human feedback can encourage sycophantic behavior showed that AI assistants will sometimes modify accurate answers when questioned by the user — and ultimately give an inaccurate response.
Americans live in separate economic realities: Those with a job are likely to stay employed, but those without one are likely to stay unemployed. Welcome to the low-hire, low-fire labor market. Private-sector layoffs are at historic lows, but that masks a dreadful outlook for unemployed workers or those unhappy with Read more…
Google DeepMind’s chief business officer says Alphabet’s drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs “is preparing to launch human trials of AI-designed drugs,” according to a report in Fortune, “pairing cutting-edge AI with pharma veterans to design medicines faster, cheaper, and more accurately.” “There are people sitting in our office in King’s Cross, Read more…
A computer science degree used to be a golden ticket to the promised land of jobs, that’s no longer the case. The article notes that in the last three years there’s been a 65% drop from companies seeking workers with two years of experience or less (according to an analysis Read more…
Tesla has launched its new Oasis Supercharger, the long-promised EV charging station of the future, with a solar farm and off-grid batteries. Early in the deployment of the Supercharger network, Tesla promised to add solar arrays and batteries to the Supercharger stations, and CEO Elon Musk even said that most Read more…
Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 such gifts over 20 years, noting the whales often lingered expectantly — and sometimes tried again — after humans declined Read more…
Some of our basic assumptions about the biological process of aging might be wrong. Scientists have long believed that long-term, low-grade inflammation — also known as “inflammaging” — is a universal hallmark of getting older. But this new data raises the question of whether inflammation is directly linked to aging Read more…