Curiosities

For eleven weeks, METR studied Anthropic: models appear to improve about twice as fast, largely with help from AI itself.

AI assistants are starting to wait on hold and book for you — you remain responsible for the call.

MIT researchers had one AI edit another model’s weights: 0.016% changed, math score from 7.9% to 48.1%.

Researchers at Westlake University in China built Pinal, an AI that proposes proteins from a plain sentence such as “a protein that glows green.”

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark developed PathogenFinder2, an AI that estimates whether a still-unknown bacterium could cause disease.

A team including a University of Toronto researcher built a tool that learns from past forecast mistakes and corrects them.

At Shivta in the Negev desert, University of Haifa researchers photographed the ruins by drone and let an AI measure every stone, one by one.