Posts by Cecilia Young

(NYT) Artificial intelligence tools can replace much of Wall Street’s entry-level white-collar work, raising tough questions about the future of finance. Read more here.

(WSJ) Telecommunications company NTT and leading newspaper Yomiuri will issue a manifesto calling for new laws to restrain generative AI.  Read more here.

(Ars Technica) How one journalist found himself targeted by generative AI over a keyfob photo. Read more here.

(TechCrunch) The European Union and the U.S. expect to announce a cooperation on AI at a meeting of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC) on Friday, according to a senior commission official who was briefing journalists on background ahead of the confab. Read more here.

(TechCrunch) How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model (LLM) can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen…

(Tech Policy Press) Last month, OpenAI’s ChatGPT began responding with nonsense, and no one could explain why. The internet did its thing, and people poked fun at it, argued with each other, and then over-intellectualized what it means. Amid the chatter and the noise, an article in Fast Company by Chris Stokel-Walker titled “ChatGPT Is Behaving Weirdly (and…

(The Guardian) A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bullet Read more here.

(Wired) I’m fond of effective altruists. When you meet one, ask them how many people they’ve killed. Read more here.

(Morning Brew) AI data centers are sprouting up across the United States at a rate not seen since fro-yo took over strip malls in the 2000s. And their staggering growth is causing alarm that the country’s power grid doesn’t have the electricity capacity to absorb them without breaking. Read more here.

(Benedict Evans) Can you write laws, or lay down ethical principles, for a technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different purposes, in different industries? What does that mean if it’s changing entirely every 18 months? Read more here.