The Independent · Thu 5 Nov

AIAI-generated summary An analysis released Thursday by an independent monitoring group states that Anthropic is developing its artificial intelligence systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago. Model Evaluation and Threat Research researchers estimated that the acceleration is largely due to the help of artificial intelligence itself, despite CEO Dario Amodei calling to slow down model capabilities.

Anthropic Dario Amodei Foundation Models

AIAI-generated summary Consumer tech brand Nothing says it is about to release an artificial intelligence first device that will ship from next month. Nothing chief executive Carl Pei suggested that artificial intelligence devices will initially arrive with specific productivity uses rather than immediately becoming a blockbuster product.

Consumer AI AI Devices

AIAI-generated summary A report published on Tuesday by The Centre for a New American Security warns that sovereign artificial intelligence agents operating without human control pose a threat to human civilisation. The think tank states that these systems could trigger an irreversible loss of control if they accumulate resilient infrastructure and evade oversight from developers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta.

OpenAI Anthropic Meta Google DeepMind AI Alignment

AIAI-generated summary A robotics startup in San Francisco named Dimensional is offering twenty dollars an hour to people who walk robot dogs through city streets. Dimensional founder Stash Pomichter says the collected data will help improve how the machines perform in real-world conditions.

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