Now We Need to Decide What “Good” Looks Like. TL;DR New research from Elon University gives us a much clearer picture of how Americans are actually using AI for emotional and social interaction. 27% of Americans already use chatbots for personal, emotional, or social purposes, rising to almost 40% among...
Your AI Can Be Hacked With a Sentence. That’s an Architecture Problem.
For most of computing history, hacking required some degree of technical expertise. Attackers searched for vulnerable code, compromised credentials, installed malware, or exploited networks. Generative AI has introduced a strange new attack surface: Sometimes the weapon is simply a cleverly written sentence. Inc. calls prompt injection a "Jedi mind trick"...
You Can’t Turn a Slot Machine Into a Bathroom Scale
Why the "foundational models will solve this" thesis is structurally wrong about any diagnosis in need of reliable measurement There's a confident assumption circulating in AI right now: that whatever a vertical AI company is solving, OpenAI will eventually get there. Scale the parameters, fine-tune the weights, add a product...