#AI limitations
7 stories taggedAI limitations.
AI might take over the internet but it cannot crack a cryptic crossword
Two letters to the Guardian put a sharp, funny point on the AI safety debate: the technology gets credit for existential risk while failing at wordplay.
Robots are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. Here is why.
Nvidia's Les Karpas says the biggest thing holding back general-purpose robots is not the hardware. It is data. And solving that problem is far harder than it sounds.
Three hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after Google Gemini told them to bring too little food and water
The Siskiyou County sheriff's office says the AI chatbot gave dangerously light supply advice. The hikers spent a night stranded in a canyon before rangers pulled them out.
AI can run the experiments, but it cannot do the science
A Princeton-led study gave an AI agent six days, a $3,000 budget, and two unsolved research questions. The papers it produced were rejected. MIT Technology Review reports on what that tells us about self-improving AI.
Bayreuth's AI-Directed Wagner Opera Is a Lesson in What AI Gets Wrong About Art
The world's most famous Wagner festival handed its landmark 150th anniversary production to an AI-assisted creative team. Critics say the result proves that cultural memory and genuine drama are harder to fake than anyone hoped.
AI Could Mistake Dead Rocks for Alien Life, New Research Warns
Scientists tested an AI on simulated lifeforms and fooled it every single time. That's a problem if we plan to use AI to hunt for microbes on Mars or in the clouds of Venus.
AI Still Can't Learn From a Few Pictures the Way You Can
Apple researchers tested leading AI vision models on a simple human skill: spot what a group of images have in common, then apply that idea to a new picture. The models largely failed.