Plus: New York has become the first state to enact a data center moratorium. When Anthropic announced last week that it had found a new window into its models' "internal thoughts" as they reason through answers, there was one colleague I had to talk to: senior editor Will Douglas Heaven. Aside from having a PhD in computer science, Will has spent a lot of time digging into what we can say about how AI models work. I spoke with him about what we should take from Anthropic's new (and typically quirky) research. Here's what he had to say . How will AI understand the real world?

The company says it has found a new window into how its models arrive at answers. We spoke with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven about it. Anthropic--currently the world's most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation--has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It's looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example, and will sometimes cut off chatbot conversations if it suspects users are "abusing" the model. One niche that Anthropic spends more time and money on than other AI companies is called mechanistic interpretability, which means looking inside the complex math of an AI model to learn why it comes up with one particular output and not another. It's complicated stuff; there are millions of data points that might contribute to any result, and wading through them can look more like word salad than anything useful.

Plus: Anthropic is now valued higher than OpenAI. How a new extraction process could unlock the world's lithium A new method for extracting lithium could cut costs and emissions from one of the world's most important materials for EVs and energy storage. The technique uses a weak acid to dissolve silicate minerals. That frees not only the lithium but also other useful materials, including alumina and silica. "At scale, we believe this will be the lowest-cost way of sourcing lithium in the world," says Yet-Ming Chiang, an MIT professor who co-authored a study of the process published yesterday in . Startup Rock Zero is already working to commercialize the research.

Much of the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) these days centers on whether it will eventually take your job, how it's trying to compete with humans in creative fields, or how it can be misused, say, as a writing tool. You can probably chalk this one-sidedness up to an all-too-human tendency to be suspicious of new tech that isn't well understood by the mainstream (yet). But AI isn't intrinsically evil or good: It's a tool, a vast technology with enormous potential, and there are myriad ways to implement it beyond the current discourse. One vitally important use case is helping us fight and survive the consequences of climate change. Whether it's mitigating the effects of disasters such as floods and fires more quickly or building a cleaner energy grid, the evidence is mounting that AI has an essential role to play in helping to protect us as the planet reacts to climate change.

What the metaverse was in 2022, AI is shaping up to be this year: the technological innovation that promises--or threatens--to reshape how we live. Though Second Life 2.0 didn't really deliver, AI will likely be much more impactful. Some compare it to the rise of automation in the last few decades, in which whole industries were reshaped by robotics and self-operating machines. Artificial intelligence promises the same thing for white-collar jobs, with a recent Goldman Sachs report estimating it could replace 300 million human workers. Here are 10 occupations that AI could make obsolete.

Chat with GPT, abbreviation CWGPT, is an open-source, unofficial ChatGPT app with extra features and more ways to customize your experience. It connects ChatGPT with you own API Key and with an extra API Key from ElevenLabs to give ChatGPT a realistic human voice during the interaction. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Chat with GPT on your Synology NAS with Docker. Please Support My work by Making a Donation. Follow the instructions in the image below.

The rapid development of conversational AI, particularly ChatGPT, is both impressive and concerning. No one wants to worry about a bot taking their job(Opens in a new window). Employers weighing whether to adopt AI may want to think twice, though. After putting ChatGPT through its paces, we found that it's got a lot to learn. It served up vague and sometimes flat-out wrong information on topics PCMag staffers know well.

OpenAI's new GPT-4 AI model has made its big debut and is already powering everything from a virtual volunteer for the visually impaired to an improved language learning bot in Duolingo. Here are the five biggest differences between these popular systems. Although ChatGPT was originally described as being GPT-3.5 (and therefore a few iterations beyond GPT-3), it is not itself a version of OpenAI's large language model, but rather a chat-based interface for whatever model powers it. The ChatGPT system that exploded in popularity over the last few months was a way to interact with GPT-3.5, and now it's a way to interact with GPT-4. With that said, let's get into the differences between the chatbot you know and love and its newly augmented successor.

Following Microsoft, DuckDuckGo is now tapping OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to streamline its search engine. DuckAssist is a free feature that can pop up when you make a query on the DuckDuckGo search engine. By tapping AI algorithms, DuckAssist can offer a concise answer to your query at the top of the search page, removing the need to scroll through search results and visit a third-party website to find the answer. The approach could kill off traditional search results, like Microsoft is starting to do with the ChatGPT-powered Bing. But for now, DuckAssist's scope has been confined to only citing content from encyclopedia sites Wikipedia and Brittanica.

You probably want a streaming device(Opens in a new tab) for your TV, whether you're a cord cutter(Opens in a new tab) or not. Roku is a popular choice, particularly as it ramps up its own original content(Opens in a new tab). Roku devices offer plenty of variety and portability, from the budget Roku Express(Opens in a new tab) to the feature-packed Roku Ultra(Opens in a new tab). Whichever one you have, there's more to know beyond the basics. Here's how to get more out of your streaming device.