Lucas Ropek
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Tech Billionaires’ Quest To Build a New City in California Continues To Go Terribly
California Forever, the quixotic, billionaire-backed effort to craft a new city out of $US800 million in Bay Area farmland parcels, continues to struggle. The project, which is owned by an opaque parent company, Flannery Associates, and backed by a slew of Silicon Valley luminaries, envisions a utopian new community nestled in Solano county. Backers of…
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Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They’re All Pretty Stupid
There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal. AGI refers to that still hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be able to do most of the jobs that humans currently do. According to this narrative, the emergence of AGI will bring about fundamental changes in…
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The Week When AI Got High on Its Own Supply
It may seem like Sam Altman’s messy drama was the only thing happening in AI last week, but the world kept turning.
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From Fake Drakes to Robo-Weathermen, Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week
If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year is AI-centric Photo: aga7ta (Shutterstock) Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year for 2023 is “hallucinate,” as in the…