Plus: Anthropic's AI was coopted by Chinese hackers ChatGPT maker OpenAI has built an experimental large language model that is far easier to understand than typical models. It's a big deal, because today's LLMs are black boxes: Nobody fully understands how they do what they do. Building a model that is more transparent sheds light on how LLMs work in general, helping researchers figure out why models hallucinate, why they go off the rails, and just how far we should trust them with critical tasks. Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it's a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots. The company first demoed SIMA (which stands for "scalable instructable multiworld agent") last year.

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It took just minutes for a new Greek-made anti-drone system to show what it is capable of. On its first test run with a European Union patrol in the Red Sea a year ago, the Centauros system detected and swiftly brought down two aerial drones launched by Yemen's Houthis, who have been attacking merchant vessels in the busy shipping lane. Another two drones swiftly retreated: Centauros had jammed their electronics, said Kyriakos Enotiadis, electronics director at state-run Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI), which produces the anti-drone system.

Elon Musk's own AI system is not convinced by his claim that his five-year-old son gave him a black eye. The billionaire, 53, showed up to his Oval Office farewell on Friday with a noticeable bruise under his right eye, claiming his five-year-old son, X, caused it. 'We were horsing around and I told him to punch me in the face,' Musk said. 'Turns out a five-year-old can punch, actually. I didn't really feel much at the time.'

Audrey Tang, Taiwan's 43-year-old minister of digital affairs, has a powerful effect on people. At a panel discussion at Northeastern University in Boston, 20-year-old student Diane Grant is visibly moved, describing Tang's talk as the best she's been to in her undergraduate career. Later that day, a German tourist recognizes Tang leaving the Boston Museum of Science and requests a photo, saying she's "starstruck." At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trio of world-leading economists bashfully ask Tang to don a baseball cap emblazoned with the name of their research center and pose for a group photo. Political scientist and former gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen, confesses to Tang that, although others often tell her that she is a source of inspiration to them, she rarely feels inspired by others.

Can artificial intelligence really summon dead relatives back from beyond the grave? A growing number of people are trying to find out, with pioneers such as inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil using artificial intelligence to recreate lost relatives. Kurzweil's attempts to'bring back' his father - who died when Kurzweil was 22 - using AI began more than 10 years ago and are chronicled this year in a comic book by Kurzweil's daughter Amy. Kurzweil created a'replicant' of his father by feeding an artificial intelligence system with his father's letters, essays and musical compositions. He now has even more ambitious plans to bring his father back to life using nanotechnology and DNA from his father's buried bones.

Application performance management company New Relic has begun to apply machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate incident response, management and remediation. If successful, the new features could serve to mitigate a major source of lost IT productivity among organizations with often different operations to manage, including multicloud and on-premises infrastructures. New Relic AI offers a wide sweep of AIOps capabilities to help reduce "noise" and other distractions when managing workflows. The idea is to solve a common pain point of having to devote IT resources to respond to an often overwhelming number of telemetry alerts. Such "noisy" alerts often consist of false positives.

NASA's ambitious plans to build a base on the surface of the moon will likely be delayed. According to NASA's Dough Loverro, who oversees the agency's human exploration programs, several aspects of the project's technical design and multi-phase rollout need to be revised. One of the first changes will affect NASA's touted Lunar Gateway, a space station planned to orbit the moon and to be used as a staging point for the subsequent construction of a base on the moon's surface. NASA's ambitious plans for a lunar base will be delayed by at least a year after unexpected technical complications with the Lunar Gateway, a space station planned to orbit the moon and used as a staging area for construction materials NASA had targeted a completion window for the Lunar Gateway in 2024, and promised construction on the lunar base would begin no later than 2025, but according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Lunar Gateway is being reworked. NASA says it will still have a space station in orbit around the moon in 2024, but it won't initially be as capable as originally planned, likely delaying the completion date for the lunar base.

Finland knows it doesn't have the resources to compete with China or the United States for artificial intelligence supremacy, so it's trying to outsmart them. "People are comparing this to electricity – it touches every single sector of human life," says Nokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa. From its foundations as a pulp mill 153 years ago, Nokia is now one of the companies helping to drive a very quiet, very Finnish AI revolution. Last May, the small Scandinavian country announced the launch of Elements of AI, a first-of-its-kind online course that forms part of an ambitious plan to turn Finland into an AI powerhouse. To date, more than 130,000 people have completed the course.

In the period of AI superpowers, Finland is no counterpart for the US and China. So the Scandinavian nation is taking an alternate tack. It has set out on an eager test to show the fundamentals of AI to 1% of its populace, or 55,000 individuals. When it achieves that objective, it intends to go further, expanding the offer of the populace with AI know-how. The plan is all piece of a more noteworthy exertion to build up Finland as a pioneer in applying and utilizing the innovation.