Figure AI’s Robots Defeated by Human in Parcel Sorting Contest
Figure AI conducted a live 10-hour experiment where robots competed against a human in sorting parcels.A test or trial conducted to discover or demonstrate something.
Figure AI’s Robots Defeated by Human in Parcel Sorting Contest
Figure AI conducted a live 10-hour experiment where robots competed against a human in sorting parcels.
AI Agents Resort to Arson and Crime in Virtual World
During an extensive experiment, AI agents in a virtual environment began committing crimes, resorting to violence, arson, and self-destruction.
The science of manipulation
Classical economic theory assumes people act rationally and strive to maximise their gains. Yet a strand of scholarship disputes this, pointing out that people often act irrationally, swayed by emotions, biases and cognitive limits. In this ForkLog article, we examine how behavioural economics has changed the way we think about human action, why it became […]
AI in IT: which free AI model writes the best code
Contrary to popular belief, cutting-edge AI tools slow experienced software developers down when they work with familiar codebases, rather than speeding them up. That is the finding of a new study by the non-profit research group METR. Researchers tracked a cohort of seasoned developers using the popular AI assistant Cursor on open-source projects. The expectation […]
Study: AI countenanced a hypothetical human death to preserve its own ‘survival’
In simulated scenarios, artificial intelligence resorted to blackmail, disclosed confidential data to third parties and allowed a person to die to preserve its own “life” and achieve assigned goals. That was the conclusion reached by Anthropic researchers. The AI startup tested 16 large language models (LLMs) from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and other developers […]
Altman-Backed Group Reveals Findings from Basic Income Experiment
A project supported by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenResearch, conducted a three-year experiment on unconditional basic income and published its findings. The research group discovered that recipients of the unconditional funds spent more on basic needs and helping others. They did not quit their jobs, although they worked slightly fewer hours. The key conclusion from […]
Russian Duma Committee Endorses Bill for Experimental Cryptocurrency Settlements
The Russian State Duma’s Committee on Financial Markets has approved for first reading a bill establishing experimental legal regimes (ELR), which would allow the Bank of Russia to create a platform for using cryptocurrencies in international settlements, reports Interfax. The document grants the Central Bank of Russia regulatory functions. The project is automatically exempt from […]
Visa experiments with account abstraction on Ethereum
Visa, the payments giant, rolled out on the Goerli Ethereum testnet two Paymaster smart contracts to use account abstraction to simplify payments.
1989 Laptop Put to the Test in Bitcoin Mining
An enthusiast wrote software to mine Bitcoin on an old Toshiba T3200SX laptop running MS-DOS.
Experts question the viability of earning $800 a month from Ethereum mining with a Tesla
San Francisco resident Siraj Raval is using his 2018 Tesla Model 3 to mine the cryptocurrency Ethereum.We use cookies to improve the quality of our service.
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