Important piece by Tori Elliott foreshadowing the potential for AI to overwhelm election workers. There is huge potential for even relatively dumb chatbots to interfere with politics. wired.com/story/ai-chatb…

I can't escape the feeling that those leading the charge for AI music have a deep-seated hatred of music.

This is a reeeallly good rundown from Matt Burgess on all the ways different services are scraping your data to train AI and what you can do to opt out wired.com/story/how-to-s…

How does China's imperial examination, Keju, shape its present and future? And what does that mean for the world? Reminder that I'm talking to Yasheng Huang 黄亚生 about his excellent book, The Rise and Fall of the EAST, at MIT tomorrow. Open to all. calendar.mit.edu/event/starr_fo…

American broadcasters, please learn from S. Korea's example.

I'm excited and honored to be interviewing Yasheng Huang 黄亚生, one of world's leading scholars on China, at MIT this Thursday. If you want to understand where China is headed, join us to hear about his excellent new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST.

GREAT READ: The future of AI is 💡Lightmatter Nicholas Harris WIRED Will Knight

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An IBM slide from 1979.

Does a 6mo baby have AGI? How about a 1yo? 3yo? 10yo? At one point does a human obtain AGI?

If you can't answer this, how are you giving timelines for when computers will obtain AGI?

Amazing story about the man who singlehandedly took down North Korea's internet, by Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places). wired.com/story/p4x-nort…

The first story worth reading is by Will Knight of WIRED, who joined us for some of the key meetings (and heard colorful language) as we completed the model. For the rest of the stories, keep an eye on our blog and on Arxiv...or take me out for bagels 🥯 wired.com/story/dbrx-ins…

Scoop: Grok had a good run but there’s a new open source model that beats out the rest: DBRX. I got an inside look at the impressive work that went into building it: wired.com/story/dbrx-ins…

Some non-VR mode doggo interactions.🐶

If this post gets 10k likes we'll add fetching to the game.

Join us on Thursday, April 11th for a Starr Forum with MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Yasheng Huang 黄亚生!

He will be discussing his new book with WIRED senior writer Will Knight. Books will be signed and sold at the event.

Details: bit.ly/RiseFallChina

It seems room safes are hacked too. Just take all your belongings with you at all times.

Experts: Ai is coming to destroy humanity.
AI....

Time to use that in-room safe. Hackers crack millions of hotel room keycards by the legendary Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places). wired.com/story/saflok-h…

A definitive look at Reddit, what makes its unique, and the challenges it will face after its IPO, by @roberthpeck and Paresh Dave. wired.com/story/inside-r…

Wired, 2002: “THE NEXT INTEL”