It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty
AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose…
Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans?
Living comes with a side effect: aging. Despite what you might hear on social media…
How a 30-year-old techno-thriller predicted our digital isolation
In April, Mark Zuckerberg, as tech billionaires are so fond of doing these days, pontificated…
The Download: talking dirty with DeepSeek, and the risks and rewards of calorie restriction
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OpenAI can rehabilitate AI models that develop a “bad boy persona”
A new paper from OpenAI has shown why a little bit of bad training can…
Is this the electric grid of the future?
One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard stalled above eastern Nebraska,…
Inside the US power struggle over coal
Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid…
The Download: future grids, and bad boy bots
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