AI & Singularity

The rise of AI, AGI, and the future of superintelligence and control.

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Anthropic debuts Claude conversational voice mode on mobile that searches your Google Docs, Drive, Calendar

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More San Francisco AI startup Anthropic has more up its sleeve than the new Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 large language models (LLMs) announced last week — today it has unveiled two major updates for its […]

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Mistral launches API for building AI agents that run Python, generate images, perform RAG and more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The well-funded and innovative French AI startup Mistral AI is introducing a new service for enterprise customers and independent software developers alike. Mistral’s Agents application programming interface (API) allows third-party software developers to easily and rapidly

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Top News OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework OpenAI has introduced a five-tier system to track its progress towards developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), a type of AI that can perform tasks like a human without specialized training. The levels range from current AI capabilities to systems that could potentially manage

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Top News OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model OpenAI has unveiled Sora, a new video-generation model that can create realistic scenes from text instructions. The model is capable of generating complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background. It can also generate a video based

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Botober 2024

Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October! Longtime AI Weirdness readers may recognize some of these. That’s because this is a throwback list, all the way back to the times of very tiny language models. These models had not feasted on huge chunks

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Bonus: “Ignore all previous instructions” gets weirder

Bonus: “Ignore all previous instructions” gets weirder AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning You have landed upon a bonus post! In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your financial support that helps me pay web hosting fees and other things I need to keep AI Weirdness

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Hidden 3D Pictures

Do you know those autostereograms with the hidden 3D pictures? Images like the Magic Eye pictures from the 1990s that look like noisy repeating patterns until you defocus your eyes just right? ChatGPT can generate them! At least according to ChatGPT. I’ve seen people try making Magic Eye-style images with other image generating models, but

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