“Robot utility models” sidestep the need to tweak the data used to train robots every time they try to do something in unfamiliar settings. It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments ...

The same advances that let cutting-edge reasoning AI models solve complex problems also seem to enable and encourage them to lay plots and deceive users. Why it matters: This propensity for what ...

ChatGPT is about to get a whole lot better. OpenAI has finally taken the wraps off of GPT-5, its latest and greatest large language model. GPT-5 has been rumored and speculated about for as long as ...

In April 2023, a few weeks after the launch of GPT-4, the Internet went wild for two new software projects with the audacious names BabyAGI and AutoGPT. “Over the past week, developers around the ...

Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe they are, but according to Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann ...

Some of the most powerful artificial intelligence models today have exhibited behaviors that mimic a will to survive. Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have ...

OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with ...

As AI models get more complex, so do the tasks carried out by humans to train them. It’s given $14 billion Scale AI a new focus on U.S.-based labor. Inhis day job, Scott O’Neil’s most recent struggle ...

Let's break down all of ChatGPT's consumer plans to see whether a subscription is worth it - especially since the free plan already offers a lot.

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to ...