Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans

Software demos and Pentagon records detail how chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude could help the Pentagon analyze intelligence ...

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...
GameSpot

A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink implant allowed a quadriplegic patient to play RuneScape and Slay the Spire in his brain. But now, scientists are taking things further, training lab-grown brain cells ...
Macworld

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a Mac mini running an AI OS

On Wednesday, Perplexity announced Personal Computer, an AI agent that “runs continuously, merging your local applications with Perplexity Computer.” The system runs on Perplexity’s “secure servers,” ...

7 surprisingly useful ways to use ChatGPT's voice mode, from a former skeptic

Voice Mode fabricated answers the last time I used it, but I tested it again to see if it's actually useful now.
Devdiscourse

Do conscious machines have moral status? Challenging idea of sentient AI

The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has revived long-standing debates about whether machines could one day possess consciousness similar to humans. However, beyond the technical ...

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...