Tag Archives: Wired

Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting

Researchers looked inside the chatbot’s “brain.” The results were surprisingly chilling.

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If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.

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Unpacking ‘Good Quests,’ Christianity, and Caviar Bumps

This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts ask what impact religion will have on Silicon Valley.

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Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China

As Elon Musk continues to expand his political power in the US, his mother has repeatedly traveled to China to speak at events, model for Chinese brands, and promote Tesla.

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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

Challenging the world’s most successful chipmaker with an entirely new type of computer chip may seem absurd—but it is no more ridiculous than the AI race itself.

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I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me

I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.

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The Best Programming Language for the End of the World

Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

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Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don’t have squeaky clean data.

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