Neowin News Feed for: Skynet

OpenAI's smartest ChatGPT model "misbehaves," refuses shut down in controlled testing

Sayan Sen — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:52:01 +0000

OpenAI's "smartest" o3 model has been "misbehaving" and is refusing to shut down even when explicitly told to. Read more...

Facebook's language-creating A.I. shut down because it didn't work as intended

Chris Schroeder — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 04:54:01 +0000

The reason behind why Facebook A.I. Research Lab engineers had to pull the plug on their own chat-based A.I. surfaces. All the scare behind the A.I. creating of a unique language is ill-founded. Read more...

EU researchers working on RoboEarth, robot version of world wide web

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:38:58 +0000

European researchers are working on a project that will allow future robots to communicate and share info between them. They'll also be able to offload most computing to the cloud and enslave us all. Read more...

IBM's Watson poised to take over salesmen jobs

Christopher White — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:27:13 +0000

IBM continues to use their technology to take over the world. First Watson became a Jeopardy champion and later the company started pushing their solution to assist doctors in the medical world. Now it appears... Read more...

Wozniak: Humans to become like dogs as machines take over the world

Paul Spain — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:40:28 +0000

At a business event on Friday afternoon, Steve Wozniak (Co-founder of Apple alongside Steve Jobs) claimed that humans would "become the pets, the dogs of the house." Wozniak was speaking to an audience of over... Read more...

"What is Global Thermonuclear War?" Why Watson isn't Skynet

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:34:55 +0000

As Watson utterly destroyed Jeopardy’s two reigning human champions at their own game, the tech world applauded IBM’s creation, but the applause was tempered by an almost palpable sense of anxiety. It’s that looking-over-the-precipice feeling... Read more...