Discovering the disease you thought you knew — how clustering rewrote breast cancer
I keep coming back to a sentence a breast oncologist said to me last year. Breast cancer isn’t one disease. It’s at least four, and we…
I keep coming back to a sentence a breast oncologist said to me last year. Breast cancer isn’t one disease. It’s at least four, and we…
In 2021, Sony shipped the PlayStation 5 with an SSD capable of loading game data at 5.5 GB per second. The previous generation managed 100 megabytes per second. That’s not an upgrade. That’s a whole other thing. Most players didn’t know the exact number. But they could see the difference – things loaded faster, the…
Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Distro hopping is a phenomenon found only in Linux. There are several reasons why you might find yourself hopping. The important thing is to find a distro that best suits you. Back in my early days of using Linux, I hopped from…
OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, told staff this week that he’s leaving the company, WIRED has learned. Heidecke’s departure follows a reorganization that sought to integrate OpenAI’s safety and research teams. In a memo to staff seen by WIRED, chief research officer Mark Chen said OpenAI’s safety teams will now report to the…
Context: A recent analysis has highlighted that AI ethics requires more than voluntary corporate pledges, calling for structural safeguards against algorithmic bias, mass surveillance, data extraction, copyright violations, and labour exploitation. Ethical AI and Conscience Prompting About Ethical AI and Conscience Prompting: What is Conscience Prompting? Conscience prompting is an advanced system-level engineering technique that…
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…
Meta has pulled the plug on a feature of a recently launched AI tool following criticism that it made Instagram accounts fodder for use in creating AI-generated images. The move on Friday came less than a week after the parent of Instagram and Facebook rolled out Muse Image, its first image-generation model available through the…