Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If the board keeps going past the glass, as if it weren’t there, ...

The world is awash in predictions of when the singularity will occur or when artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive. Some experts predict it will never happen, while others are marking ...

The world’s top artificial intelligence groups are stepping up their focus on so-called world models that can better understand human environments, in the search for new ways to achieve machine ...

Crystal ball: Sam Altman has given another prediction on when artificial general intelligence (AGI) – an AI vastly smarter than humans – will arrive: the OpenAI boss said that "superintelligence" will ...

Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new “research principal” of Meta Superintelligence Labs. The move comes after Zuckerberg went on a hiring blitz earlier ...

Ten years ago, if you said artificial intelligence might surpass human-level intelligence by the year 2029, no one in Washington would have taken you seriously. A Wednesday hearing showed how ...

Guido Reichstadter, for the past week, has gone without a calorie. He’s survived on vitamins and electrolytes, conducting a hunger strike to protest the San Francisco startup Anthropic’s pursuit of ...

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the ...

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A hot potato: One of the biggest fears over the rapid development of AI and the race toward AGI is that the technology could turn on humans, potentially wiping us out. Geoffrey Hinton and Meta's Yann ...