We are making one of the strangest engineering decisions in modern technology. We are building extraordinarily powerful artificial intelligence systems that we know are probabilistic, that can hallucinate, that can behave differently depending on context, and whose capabilities are advancing faster than many of their own creators expected. Then we...
AI Researchers Changed One Guardrail. It Changed More Than They Expected.
There’s a tendency to talk about AI guardrails as though they were switches. Don’t say this. Don’t do that. Refuse these requests. Follow this policy. New research involving Google scientists provides a fascinating demonstration of why large language models don’t necessarily work that way. Researchers studied models that had been...
AI Will Be Part of Childhood. The Question Is Who Controls the Experience.
AI Will Be Part of Childhood. The Question Is Who Controls the Experience. TL;DR Daniel Susskind makes a strong case against trying to protect children from AI by simply banning it. Children need foundational skills, but they also need to learn how to work with AI because it will be...