Michael CaloreLauren GoodeZoë Schiffer Business Dec 19, 2024 8:00 AM All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025 To wrap up 2024, this week on Uncanny Valley we talk about the tech products we most fear and love. Photo-Animation: WIRED Staff/Getty Images If you buy something using links in our stories, we may…
By Will Knight Business Dec 18, 2024 12:00 PM Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality Botto is a ‘decentralized AI artist’ whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images These images were created by an artist…
Joel Khalili Business Dec 18, 2024 5:00 AM The Edgelord AI That Seduced Marc Andreessen, Then Turned a Famed Shock Meme Into Cryptomillions Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents. Then it took on a life of its own. Photo-Illustration:…
Andy Greenberg Security Dec 16, 2024 6:00 AM Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide, can be hacked by their owners to evade traffic regulations or even law enforcement surveillance. Photo…
Carlton Reid Gear Dec 15, 2024 6:00 AM The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road Following the Czech Cybertruck’s example, now there’s a rubber bumper-pimped Tesla truck attempting to be certified for use on British highways. This time, however, the chances of success look slim. Courtesy of Yianni Charalambous If…
By Ethan Mollick Business Dec 15, 2024 4:00 AM AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All Traditional hierarchies hold businesses back. Instead, teams need to combine human and artificial intelligence to succeed. Illustration: Igor Bastidas Ever since the invention of the org chart in the 1850s, company structures have changed very little—they are…
Louise Matsakis Business Dec 13, 2024 1:34 PM Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award Keyu Tian and his coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the annual NeurIPS machine learning conference for their work on a new technique for generating images. Some have objected to the decision. Signage for…
By Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Security Dec 13, 2024 9:00 AM Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous AI creates what it’s told to, from plucking fanciful evidence from thin air, to arbitrarily removing people’s rights, to sowing doubt over public misdeeds. Illustration: Félix Decombat OpenAI CEO Sam Altmanexpects AGI, or artificial general…
Ben Oliver Gear Dec 13, 2024 7:30 AM Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla Unlike Waymo’s hybrid system of AI training with hand-coded instructions, Wayve’s AI handles the entire self-driving process, learning unsupervised to cope with the unpredictable and drive more like we do….
Makena KellyZeyi Yang Business Dec 13, 2024 6:00 AM What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok Frank McCourt says his bid for TikTok is part of a broader mission to move millions of people to healthier online platforms. “I compare this to large-scale, human physical migration.” Frank McCourt, founder of McCourt Global and…
