No One Knows How Safe New Driver-Assistance Systems Really Are
Tesla’s Autopilot and other automotive safety features are involved in plenty of car crashes. But thanks to spotty data, it’s still not clear how many, or what to do about it.
Blake Lemoine Says Google’s LaMDA AI Faces ‘Bigotry’
In an interview with WIRED, the engineer and priest elaborated on his belief that the program is a person—and not Google’s property.
‘Is This AI Sapient?’ Is the Wrong Question to Ask About LaMDA
The bigger problem is what happens when we act as if AIs are conscious, and how that could be used against us.
NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter
NASA engineers are trying to keep the Mars helicopter running as it endures longer, colder nights and the chance of more frequent dust storms.
Axon’s Taser Drone Plans Prompt AI Ethics Board Resignations
The company has backed down on its proposal to address school shootings, but the damage was already done.
Airfare Prediction Algorithms Are Going Haywire
The world’s current weirdness has made it more difficult for tools like Kayak and Google Flights to guess the best time to buy a plane ticket.
Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher’s Conduct
Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or even falsified.
Microsoft’s Code-Writing AI Points to the Future of Computers
Today, AI can take control of characters in Minecraft. Soon, it could help you control your whole computer.
A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read
The new novel Amor Cringe bills itself as “deepfake autofiction.” WIRED talked to its coauthors, K. Allado-McDowell and the language model GPT-3.