Tag Archives: Wired

How to Use Google’s Gemini AI Right Now in Its Bard Chatbot

You can try out Gemini, Google’s rival to ChatGPT, for free. It’s super easy to access right inside Bard.

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The Binance Crackdown Will Be an ‘Unprecedented’ Bonanza for Crypto Surveillance

Binance’s settlement requires it to offer years of transaction data to US regulators and cops, exposing the company—and its customers—to a “24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy.”

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Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT

Google says Gemini, launching today inside the Bard chatbot, is its “most capable” AI model ever. It was trained on video, images, and audio as well as text.

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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Says Gemini Is a New Breed of AI

Google’s new AI model Gemini launched today inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project.

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Women Buy More Cars, So Why Are the Designs So Macho?

It’s not just Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Car design is largely geared toward men, even though women buy more than 60 percent of all new cars sold in the US. EVs are a chance to right that wrong.

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How to Stop Another OpenAI Meltdown

OpenAI designed its governance structure to protect humanity—and it imploded. The company could take pointers from Mozilla and other projects combining lofty goals with for-profit ventures.

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The Pilots Delivering Your Amazon Packages Are Ready to Strike

Pilots for Amazon’s largest air freight provider voted to strike, complaining of low pay and high turnover. If a strike happens in the new year, Amazon deliveries could be impacted.

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A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4

Adversarial algorithms can systematically probe large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 for weaknesses that can make them misbehave.

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Spotify Is Screwed

Spotify is the world’s biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17 percent of its workforce. Its business model looks increasingly precarious.

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Innovation-Killing Noncompete Agreements Are Finally Dying

More US states are moving to bar companies from binding workers with noncompete agreements. Research shows the move could boost wages and innovation.

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