A new study shows that GPT-4 reliably wins debates against its human counterparts in one-on-one conversations—and the technology gets even more persuasive when it knows your age, job, and political leanings. Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland, Princeton University, and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy paired 900 study participants with either a human debate partner […]
Amazon Follows Microsoft in Retreat From Ambitious AI Data Center Plans
The number of tech giants paring back on their AI data center plans rises to two. According to banks Wells Fargo and TD Cowen, Amazon has paused negotiations on some co-location data center deals, primarily in Europe. The news comes shortly after several reports have indicated Microsoft has paused or cancelled some of its plans. […]
Wikipedia Is Making a Dataset for Training AI Because It’s Overwhelmed by Bots
It seems that AI developers have essentially blackmailed Wikipedia into offering up its data for training. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is partnering with Google-owned Kaggle—a popular data science community platform—to release a version of Wikipedia optimized for training AI models. Starting with English and French, the foundation will offer stripped down versions […]
AI Experts Say We’re on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI
According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way. This insight was revealed at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)’s 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. The lengthy report was put together by 24 AI researchers whose […]
AI Sucks at Reading Clocks
These days, artificial intelligence can generate photorealistic images, write novels, do your homework, and even predict protein structures. New research, however, reveals that it often fails at a very basic task: telling time. Researchers at Edinburgh University have tested the ability of seven well-known multimodal large language models—the kind of AI that can interpret and […]
Meta Is Ready to Rock Nvidia’s Boat With Its In-House AI Chip
The adage goes, “your arbitrage is my opportunity,” and could be used to sum up Meta’s push into building an in-house chip for AI training tasks. Reuters reports the company recently began a small deployment of the chips after successfully building them in a test with Taiwan’s TSMC (sorry Intel). Meta is already using its […]