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The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat

The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself,...

Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot

Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot

Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-­mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger....

Quand personne ne vérifie la date d'expiration de votre CB

Quand personne ne vérifie la date d'expiration de votre CB

Trois chercheurs de l'université du Massachusetts à Amherst ont réussi à régler pour 3,19 dollars d'achats dans un supermarché avec une carte bancaire périmée ! Leur secret ? Glisser une app maison entre la carte et le terminal qui trafique la date d'expiration de la carte. En fait, leur montage...

The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices

The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their...

Rendre une voiture invisible pour les caméras

Rendre une voiture invisible pour les caméras

Au début du mois d'août, une Toyota Yaris de 2009 est passée devant une caméra Flock à Las Vegas sans être "vue". Car même si la caméra l'a filmée correctement, le logiciel de détection, lui, n'a rien inscrit dans ses logs, comme si la rue était restée vide... J'ai trouvé ça intéressant...

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.  “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD...

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers...

Amazon détruit des livres pour nourrir ses IA

Amazon détruit des livres pour nourrir ses IA

Si comme moi, vous aimez les livres, ce que je vais vous raconter aujourd'hui va vous rendre fous ! Hier, 404 Media a publié une enquête qui suit le trajet d'un AirTag. Mais pas n'importe lequel... C'est un AirTag qu'un libraire a glissé, à la demande de la rédaction, dans un livre parti au sein...

The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”

The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he was anxious or mad. Six years...

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each...