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/

My latest story for @Wired was a fun one to report. A bot called Nexto is tearing up Rocket League, and it uses AI that was only found in top research labs a few years ago. It shows how advances in AI are spreading, and how online games will need to adapt. https://www.wired.com/story/cheaters-hacked-an-ai-bot-and-beat-the-rocket-league-elite/

My latest for WIRED: A rumored $10 billion investment in OpenAI might seem sensible given the popularity of ChatGPT, but investors don't seem to know what the killer, money-making app would be for such generative AI: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-has-investors-drooling-but-can-it-bring-home-the-bacon/

I wrote about the history and future of AI image manipulation. And I got a chance to use Meta's video-generating AI. https://www.wired.com/gallery/where-the-ai-art-boom-came-from-and-where-its-going/

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing the creator of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko (@Gargron). We talked about how crazy the past few weeks have been, why the site was built to resist the kind of takeover that Twitter has seen, and what he makes of Elon's tweet poking fun at Mastodon: https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/
#mastodon
#twitter
#TwitterTakeover

Did you know that Amazon makes more robots than any other company in the world?

Amazon is now using robots to handle individual items—as opposed to shelves or packed boxes! A new robot arm can handle 65% of good (unclear how quickly). It could be a big deal when it comes to automating more warehouse tasks. #robots #automation #amazon #futureofwork

Cat is in drawer haha

Anyone trying to make sense of what's going on with Twitter might want to read "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani. A key point, persuasively made, is that authoritarians have often sought to undermine the idea of an objective truth, often by suggesting it is all a matter of political opinion. What's happening on the other site fits with that pattern. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573029/the-death-of-truth-by-michiko-kakutani/

Anyone got a tip of getting keybase verification to work on mastodon.social? I get an “unreachable” error when I try through the keybase app.