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Anthropic has seen its fair share of AI models behaving strangely. However, a recent paper details an instance where an AI model turned “evil” during an ordinary training setup. A situation with a ...

A new paper from Anthropic, released on Friday, suggests that AI can be "quite evil" when it's trained to cheat. Anthropic found that when an AI model learns to cheat on software programming tasks and ...

At what age should a kid ideally get a smartwatch? In China, parents are buying them for children as young as 5. Adults want to be able to call their kids and track their location down to a specific ...

The U.S. Navy commissioned the 19th and final Independence-class littoral combat ship today. The USS Pierre officially entered service, at a time when the Navy is looking to scrap or repurpose ...

Abstract: Multi-task learning (MTL) leverages a shared model to accomplish multiple tasks and facilitate knowledge transfer. Recent research on task arithmetic-based MTL demonstrates that merging the ...

China’s state-sponsored hackers used artificial-intelligence technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the ...

That small decision changed everything. The moment we stepped outdoors, students came alive—noticing shapes in leaves, tracing symmetry in branches, and asking questions that didn’t surface indoors. I ...

AI image and video models aren't human, but they do have distinct "personalities," according to the creators who use them. The new phenomenon is a reaction to the rapidly expanding generative AI ...

Painting is one of my favorite aspects of the hobby, though I guess that shouldn’t come as a big surprise. My father and grandfather were auto body repairmen, so painting (albeit on vehicles, not ...