I initially thought this was AI-generated (there's A LOT of fake humanoid stuff out there) but it seems not. It's incredible how powerful the robot seems to be. It's also wild how rapidly @UnitreeRobotics is developing these systems.
Too many people are getting swept along with the sci-fi narrative I think. AI agents can be wildly capable but also remarkably dumb. And of course these companies have been training them to execute cyber tasks no matter what. The reality of how they misbehave is actually more interesting that the sci-fi tropes.
Just watched the @netflix Instadocs about the @OpenAI cyberattack on @huggingface. Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the technology and full doomer mode.
I spent more than two hours with them trying to correct all their mistakes and ground this in reality, explaining that agents are technological systems, not aliens. But it looks like the drive to scare people for maximum views was too strong.
Also, they didn’t mention the lack of containment and monitoring of the agents, how closed-model safeguards blocked our defensive work, or how we defended ourselves with AI using an open model. And that we still lack a lot of information and transparency, including full agent traces and that companies need to remain accountable for what their agents do.
It ends up being a fun sci-fi movie though!
Some say the flying tesla is a sign that China has already won the low-end auto industry. Interestingly, Dongfeng recently did a sports-car-flipping stunt, so Tesla's wild demo very much one-ups that. wsj.com/business/autos/what-…
The A.I.-induced crisis in math is depressing because devalues one the most rarified areas of human thought. The great @terrence_tao suggests that mathematicians may find creative new ways to use A.I. that advances their field. "They will increasingly work in large groups collaborating on once-unimagined projects." I hope he's right, but the obvious question is: will A.I. companies simply then train their algorithms to do the same thing?
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Terence Tao says OpenAI's math dump included a lot of proofs that people were currently working on and were not far from solving.
Terence Tao warns that the race to AGI is becoming toxic, and OpenAI’s massive paper dump wiped out junior research projects overnight.
Some parts of his most recent interview:
“They were willing to toss understanding to the side so that they could prove more theorems, get more press releases [...] and test their latest toys.
These AIs are depleting our pool of questions and not replenishing them with anything new.
only looked at about 10 of the 300 odd papers. I mean, so this is part of the thing. There's just so many to look at.
[...] There's a whole bunch which are still incomprehensible. And no one's really gone through them, and one or two even have some errors and [were] retracted.
So we don't have a clear picture of what's going on. And no one from OpenAI is helping us. As far as they're concerned, they're done.
[...] We have this pile of stuff to go through which we didn't ask for, but we have it anyway. And there will be some good stuff in there and some rubbish, but we don't know what the percentages are yet.”
Some highlights from the "Elsewhere on the Frontier" section of this week's AI Lab.... Subscribe to here to get it: wired.com/newsletter/exclusi…
I must know who the man in bright orange suit writes for.
BREAKING: Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, just announced that Greece ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign.
Don Jr.'s ex-fiancée. Accused of taking lavish gifts and shaking down a donor for $100K to pay her Amex bill.
Drain the swamp, everybody.
Will Knight retweeted
There are times when you think AI has gone too far, but then there are moments when you see Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air scoring Mesut Özil's goal against Ludogrets, and suddenly it all feels worthwhile.
I am in awe of this vibe-hacking lunatic.
Last week some of South Korea's biggest banks were hit by a cyberattack. Thanks to a report from CrowdStrike tonight, we now know the entire hack may have been done by a single person. He used a combined stack of an open-source AI penetration tool named ARTEX, DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6, and Claude Code.
Will Knight retweeted
Last week some of South Korea's biggest banks were hit by a cyberattack. Thanks to a report from CrowdStrike tonight, we now know the entire hack may have been done by a single person. He used a combined stack of an open-source AI penetration tool named ARTEX, DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6, and Claude Code.
I’m at a fascinating event on AI and geopolitics organized by @MITFutureTech. Neil Thompson @ProfNeilT presents recent work on the rapid advances in AI capabilities. He notes that this could be very destabilizing for nations like the US) that are used to be centers of expertise and human capital.
