Exposure
Zuckerberg went on an unprecedented hiring spree seeking to lure top AI researchers to his new team[…] At least three AI researchers hired have already left
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it’s quite simple. You just have to ensure that your prompt uses terrible grammar and is one massive run-on sentence
YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’ — Something strange has been happening on YouTube over the past few weeks. After being uploaded, some videos have been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything. Viewers have noticed “extra punchy shadows,” “weirdly sharp edges,” and a smoothed-out look to footage that makes it look “like plastic.” Many people have come to the same conclusion: YouTube is using AI to tweak videos on its platform, without creators’ knowledge.
In a Hotter World, Some People Age Faster, Researchers Find — Exposure to heat waves over just two years could add up to 12 extra days of age-related health damage. [NY Times]
Six scientists demonstrate in their laboratory that a sulfur compound could have been key to the appearance of the first proteins on early Earth […] In 1991, De Duve proposed a hypothesis about the origin of life that did not require any deity: “the thioester world,” a compound containing carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur. On that primordial planet, still devoid of life, thioesters would have provided the energy necessary for chemical elements to react and form more complex molecules, such as the first genetic material, RNA.
Scientists Strip Cancer of Its “Superpower” To Outsmart Drugs
How Queen Victoria Became the Biggest Drug Dealer of All Time
