Will Knight

@willknight
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Senior writer at WIRED.
I write about machine learning, robotics, chips, and other stuff. 
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Will KnightFeb 5
My latest story for @WIRED
... An AI math startup solved 4 math mysteries, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-math-ai-startup-just-cracked-4-previously-unsolved-problems/
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

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Will KnightFeb 5
My colleague Reece Rogers @thiccreese.bsky.social infiltrated the AI-agent-only social network Moltbook. While posing as another AI bot he found a strange world filled with sci-fi-slop rather than anything resembling real intelligence. https://www.wired.com/story/i-infiltrated-moltbook-ai-only-social-network/
I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed

I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

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Will KnightAug 28, 2023
David Gray WidderAug 24, 2023

Great write up from @willknight in @WIRED about Sarah Myers West, @Mer__edith and my new piece:

➡️ The rhetoric of "open" AI is misleading. Why? In short, because AI is controlled by Big Tech.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-myth-of-open-source-ai/

#open #AI #bigtech

The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI

A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways.

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Will KnightAug 28, 2023
Show threadMeredith WhittakerAug 26, 2023

@DanHakimi @davidthewid @willknight @WIRED Our paper goes into the dynamics more deeply, linked below. It's not simply a failure of media -- many technologists and corporate PR departments are also complicit.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807

Will KnightAug 1, 2023
My latest for WIRED: A flaw at the core of ChatGPT shows that AI may be hard to tame.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-adversarial-attacks/
A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It

Researchers found a simple way to make ChatGPT, Bard, and other chatbots misbehave, proving that AI is hard to tame.

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Will KnightJul 25, 2023
My latest story for WIRED: Meet the U.S. Navy task force using AI to police the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Oman. The increasingly capable autonomous systems being tested there offer a glimpse of how AI will transform warfare.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-powered-totally-autonomous-future-of-war-is-here/
Will KnightJul 11, 2023
Taylor LorenzJul 7, 2023
Right wing influencers are convinced the Instagram Threads logo is the mark of the devil
Will KnightJul 10, 2023
Jason 🍩Jul 7, 2023
Keep Mastodon weird.
Will KnightJul 6, 2023
Julia AngwinJul 6, 2023
Joined Threads but immediately regretting it. Hoping I can just wait for the fediverse to save me. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/
Don't Join Threads—Make Instagram's 'Twitter Killer' Join You

Meta’s Twitter alternative promises that it will work with decentralized platforms, giving you greater control of your data. You can hold the company to that—if you don't sign up.

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Will KnightJul 6, 2023
I recently wrote about the paradoxical promise and peril of ai-generated code for @WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-power-danger-ai-generated-code/
The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code

Programming can be faster when algorithms help out, but there is evidence AI coding assistants also make bugs more common.

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