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Will Knight

@willknight
31 posts
2026-02-05
My latest story for @wired.com... An AI math startup solved 4 math mysteries, a sign of the technology's steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.https://www.wired.com/ story/a-new-ai-math-ai-startup-just- cracked-4-previously-unsolved- problems/
2026-02-05 View on X
Wired

A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an AI model able to verify proofs that it claims has found solutions to at least four longstanding math problems

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology's steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

2025-07-20
The camera never lies but this AI model sure does, altering live video in dramatic ways.  Given how quickly AI video has advanced, it may soon be difficult to believe anything you see on a livestream, TikTok, or video chat. www.wired.com/story/decart...
2025-07-20 View on X
Wired

A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming

A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage.  The results are mind-bending—and poised to take over streaming.

2024-11-15
I recently visited Physical Intelligence, a $400 million funded startup that aims to bring artificial intelligence into the real world. The company is making progress towards a master algorithm for robot control and building some remarkable home robots. https://www.wired.com/... [video]
2024-11-15 View on X
Wired

How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots a humanlike understanding of the physical world by feeding data from robots doing tasks into its AI model

Physical Intelligence has assembled an all-star team and raised $400 million on the promise of a stunning breakthrough in how robots learn. X: @evankirstel and @willknight X: @evan...

2024-06-07
OpenAI has come under fire for letting its superalignment team disappear but the company just published work from @ilyasut, @janleike, and others on a new way to peer inside GPT-4 to better understand how it works. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-06-07 View on X
Wired

OpenAI releases a research paper by its recently disbanded “superalignment” team on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models

but OpenAI says it's closer to cracking the mystery Ben's Bites : GPT 4 Features - Peeking into AI's brains X: @openai : We're sharing progress toward understanding the neural acti...

2024-05-15
I got an early look at ASTRA, Google's “next-gen” AI assistant. Many experts believe AI models will need a more sophisticated understanding of the physical world to overcomecurrent shortcomings. Story incoming... #GoogleIO2024 @WIRED [image]
2024-05-15 View on X
Engadget

Google teases Project Astra, a camera-based AI app to process visual data in real time, and showed a person wearing a pair of smart glasses using the feature

It'll even remember things it saw that are no longer in the frame.  —  Deputy Editor, Reviews

2024-05-06
I enjoyed this story about the fascinating and important work @LakeBrenden of NYU is doing on infant learning and AI. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Some researchers are training AI models on headcam footage from infants and toddlers, to better understand language acquisition by both AI and children

2024-05-05
I enjoyed this story about the fascinating and important work @LakeBrenden of NYU is doing on infant learning and AI. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-05-05 View on X
New York Times

Some researchers are training AI models on headcam footage from infants and toddlers, to better understand language acquisition by both AI and children

Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?  —  We ask a lot of ourselves as babies.

2024-02-12
I spoke the creators of the world's safest AI, GOODY-2, @mikelacher and and @lanewinfield. “It's the full experience of a large language model with absolutely zero risk,” they say. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-02-12 View on X
Wired

An interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, who created Goody-2, a joke AI chatbot that refuses every query to “prioritize safety and the prevention of harm”

2024-02-11
I spoke the creators of the world's safest AI, GOODY-2, @mikelacher and and @lanewinfield. “It's the full experience of a large language model with absolutely zero risk,” they say. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-02-11 View on X
Wired

Interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, creators of AI chatbot Goody-2, which was created as a joke and refuses to answer every query to prioritize safety

Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme.  The artists behind the project say there's a serious point behind the gag.

2023-07-26
Meet the U.S. Navy task force using AI to police the pirate-invested waters of the Gulf of Oman. The increasingly capable autonomous systems being tested there offer a glimpse of how AI will transform warfare. https://www.wired.com/...
2023-07-26 View on X
Wired

How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war

Ships without crews.  Self-directed drone swarms.  How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence … Twitter: @willknight . Forums: r/artificia...

2023-06-27
The next @deepmind algorithm, Gemini, may combine a powerful language model with cutting-edge reinforcement learning, perhaps helping with planning and memory. That's one thing I learned from a very interesting chat with @demishassabis recently. https://www.wired.com/...
2023-06-27 View on X
Wired

DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis details Gemini, an upcoming ChatGPT rival meant to combine the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems and those of LLMs

2023-03-26
Are text-munching models like GPT-4 enough to bring about human-level intelligence in machines, or does AI need to learn by following human actions in the world? @OpenAI just led funding in a company working on humanoid, tele-operated robots. https://www.wired.com/...
2023-03-26 View on X
Wired

Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others

Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks.  But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.

2023-01-25
Latest story for @WIRED: China leads the world in exporting AI - especially face recognition. The authors argue that this could turn ‘weak democracies’ more authoritarian. But note: the U.S. is not far behind, and it has few restrictions on the tech. https://www.wired.com/...
2023-01-25 View on X
Wired

The Brookings Institution: from 2008 to 2021, Chinese companies accounted for 201 facial recognition tech export deals, followed by US companies with 128 deals

Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @willknight Tweets: @wired : According to a study by academics at Harvard and MIT, China is the world leader in exporting face recognition...

2022-10-17
The International Federation of Robotics reports new installs for 2021, including significant growth in non traditional sectors. But it's worth noting that these robots are, by and large, very dumb and do not use AI. https://ifr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

International Federation of Robotics: 517,385 industrial robots were installed in 2021, an all-time high, bringing the global total to an all-time high of 3.5M

2022-10-16
The International Federation of Robotics reports new installs for 2021, including significant growth in non traditional sectors. But it's worth noting that these robots are, by and large, very dumb and do not use AI. https://ifr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

International Federation of Robotics: 500K+ industrial robots were installed in 2021, an all-time high, bringing the number of global installations to 3.5M

Robots are spreading at a record pace, from their traditional strongholds like making automobiles into nearly every other human endeavor

2022-08-17
My latest for @WIRED: Google and Everyday Robots, an X spinout, are using large language models to make robots capable of understanding more complex human commands: https://www.wired.com/...
2022-08-17 View on X
Wired

Google says it is using its most powerful large language model PaLM to help robots from Alphabet X spinout Everyday Robots understand complex human commands

The machine learning technique that taught notorious text generator GPT-3 to write can also help robots make sense of spoken commands.

2022-02-10
My latest story for @WIRED is about an AI program that learned to play Gran Turismo with superhuman skill. The game is incredibly dynamic and complex, so the approach might someday be used in self-driving cars and robots that need work alongside humans. https://www.wired.com/...
2022-02-10 View on X
Wired

Sony details GT Sophy, an AI built to master Gran Turismo that outraces human drivers; the research could eventually help develop autonomous vehicles

2021-10-04
My latest story: The man behind ClearviewAI, a controversial face recognition tool that lets police find people online, says he's developing new AI features to make it more powerful. Some say it could also make it even more problematic. https://www.wired.com/...
2021-10-04 View on X
Wired

Clearview CEO says it has collected over 10B images from across the web and is building ways for police to find people, including deblurring and mask removal

In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance. Tweets: @zittrain , @je...

2021-08-25
My latest story for @WIRED is about the global rush to build powerful GPT3-type language models. The programs already reflect different cultural perspectives, and they may underpin countless future AI products. https://www.wired.com/...
2021-08-25 View on X
Wired

Following Open AI's GPT-3, startups in China, South Korea, Israel, and Germany are building general purpose AI language tools for non-English languages

Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @willknight and @ilparone Tweets: Will Knight / @willknight : My latest story for @WIRED is about the global rush to build powerful GPT3-type languag...

I can't stop writing about AI language models. The CEO of @CerebrasSystems says a cluster of his wafer-chips could run a 120 trillion parameter model (100x what we have today), and he claims OpenAI is planning this kind of scale for GPT-4. https://www.wired.com/...
2021-08-25 View on X
Wired

Cerebras Systems claims its hardware can now run a neural network with 120 trillion parameters, targeting a nascent market for massive NLP AI algorithms

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