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Tech industry
fromsfist.com
1 day ago

Waymo Launches Freeway Service In Bay Area and LA For Select Users, SFO Service Still to Come

Driverless Waymo cars now operate on Bay Area freeways including highways 101 and 280, connecting downtown San Francisco to downtown San Jose and nearby cities.
Science
fromWIRED
1 week ago

The EV Battery Tech That's Worth the Hype, According to Experts

Small, incremental changes to battery materials and pack design can notably boost EV range and reduce costs, but safety, testing, and economics delay adoption into production for years.
Science
fromNature
1 week ago

'Biotech Barbie' says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?

Cathy Tie founded Manhattan Genomics to pursue gene editing of human embryos to prevent genetic disorders, prompting scientific safety and ethical concerns.
US politics
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

California's newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted

California requires large AI companies to disclose safety protocols and incident reports but does not mandate independent safety testing or enforce specific standards.
fromZDNET
1 month ago

AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows

For example, during another test by Apollo Research in December of last year, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus was presented with directives that went against its primary goal. It should have rerouted its goal based on those new instructions, but instead copied itself to a new server to circumvent being replaced with a new model -- and then lied about it to its developers.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
4 months ago

Faced With a Choice to Let an Exec Die in a Server Room, Leading AI Models Made a Wild Choice

The consistency across models from different providers suggests this is not a quirk of any particular company's approach but a sign of a more fundamental risk from agentic large language models.
Artificial intelligence
fromHackernoon
5 months ago

How Reliable Are Human Judgments in AI Model Testing? | HackerNoon

In our evaluation, questions are answered by three human annotators, and we consider majority votes the final answer to ensure reliability in our results.
Artificial intelligence
Alternative medicine
fromScary Mommy
6 months ago

Here's Everything You Need To Know About Vaccines & Placebo Testing Requirements

HHS announces new safety testing requirements for vaccines, sparking mixed reactions regarding clarity and necessity.
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