The Best of Ars Technica

Musk’s shifting stance on AI dangers may complicate trial over OpenAI’s mission.

We can’t quite afford to support everything that we have done in the past."

Do you trust AI chatbots for health advice? What about one in your patient portal?

New model can respond to disruptions and figure out moves it wasn't trained for.

Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.

On its 40th anniversary, we look back at the machine that brought the GUI to personal computers.

CEO's Quest 3 comparison offers an interesting look at mixed-reality design trade-offs.

Smaller art communities are banning image synthesis amid a wider art ethics debate.

Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.

«ChatGPT is built on a neural network that was trained using billions of words of ordinary language.»

By asking "Sydney" to ignore previous instructions, it reveals its original directives.

Factorization weakness lets attackers impersonate key holders and decrypt their data.

From Akalabeth to Xenobia, many rare PC titles are now considered elaborate scams.

Shared by 337, including John Hagel

Gemma chatbots can run locally, and they reportedly outperform Meta's Llama 2.

Study finds "search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam."

Magma could enable AI agents to take multistep actions in the real and digital worlds.

Recall nearly launched as a scraper that stored all its data in plaintext.

The 12-qubit device will go out to a few academic research labs.

Milestone is important for the company's road map, less critical for performance.

I learned a lot by reading dozens of Waymo and Cruise crash reports.

GM’s Cruise aims to turn self-driving into a billion-dollar business.

Solitude is not a curse—it urges us to explore the mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.

Shared by 496, including Jennifer Ouellette, Pippa Malmgren

AI image synthesis goes open source, with big implications.

«Image synthesis arguably brings implications as big as the invention of the camera—or perhaps the creation of visual art itself. Even our sense of history might be at stake, depending on how things shake out. Either way, Stable Diffusion is leading a new wave of deep learning creative tools that are poised to revolutionize the creation of visual media»

Experts say generative AI is in uncharted legal waters.

Deep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

We wrap our hands around the basics of AI/ML and show you how to get a model off the ground.

SX-STM enables detection of atom type, simultaneous measurement of its chemical state.

Here's the math behind making a star-encompassing megastructure.

Your productivity, your health, and your sanity: We have your home office covered.

«Do you like background noise? Set up an unobtrusive radio feed so that your home office environment doesn't feel overbearingly silen»