Google Eats Rocks, a Win for A.I. Interpretability and Safety Vibe Check – The New York Times

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This week, Google found itself in more turmoil, this time over its new AI Overviews feature and a trove of leaked internal documents. Then Josh Batson, a researcher at the A.I. startup Anthropic, joins us to explain how an experiment that made the chatbot Claude obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge represents a major breakthrough in understanding how large language models work. And finally, we take a look at recent developments in A.I. safety, after Caseys early access to OpenAIs new souped-up voice assistant was taken away for safety reasons.

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Google Eats Rocks, a Win for A.I. Interpretability and Safety Vibe Check - The New York Times