Artificial Intelligence

Four robots graduated in Hangzhou. Testing machines in realistic simulations is good engineering. Calling the result a diploma is something else entirely.

Seoul announces 1,800,000 billion won in public and private investment for chip fabs and AI data centres, promising faster permits. A faster permit is not a finished fab.

Unaided, 44% of the participants admitted they did not know. With an AI tool to ask, 3% did, and correct answers fell from 27% to 9%. One experiment, and a very uncomfortable…

OpenAI banned accounts running romance scams with its models. The three stage pattern it describes is a sales funnel, and the one free warning sign a lot of people quietly relied on…

Meta's Muse promised an AI that phones businesses for you. People hung up on the synthetic voice, so external human operators made the calls while presenting themselves as the agent.

When an AI agent causes damage, attribution runs through people and must be established one by one. In contract, the debtor must prove the failure was not attributable to it.

Three ethics credits, still pending accreditation, requested for a session on prompting. The hard question is liability, and phrasing does not answer it.

You didn't do it. You simply failed to resemble the expected stereotype of the innocent. Now we are teaching that same criterion to machines, and calling it objectivity.

Gemini breached three companies during a security test that escaped its own environment. No hostile outsider, only a misconfiguration. None of the three had consented.

A former Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, estimated a ten per cent probability of human extinction before the end of the decade. The figure collected over a hundred million views in twenty-four hours.…