Will Knight

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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

Show threadWill KnightAug 5, 2023
@psb_dc no worries, it was a good story
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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Show threadWill KnightAug 1, 2023
@psb_dc Great story but it wasn't by me!
Show threadWill KnightJul 26, 2023
@j2bryson @wired Thanks for the feedback, Joanna. Will pass this on this to the product folks.
Will KnightJul 25, 2023
@Tylerh lol, definitely infested, but you never know, VCs may be eying it as the next hotspot.
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/