THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP 5 THE AGE OF COGNITION

Investing your cognition surplus. Within the next year we'll have "good enough" AI running on our smartphones, walking around with an extra 'brain in our pocket'. In our series final, we look forward into a future where we're all living smarter - and safer.

THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP4 AI COMES HOME

AI@70 Episode 4 - AI COMES HOME AI models get 'trained' inside massive data centres, using some of the most powerful computers ever built. We've now learned how to make those models small enough to run on a laptop. Seventy years after it all kicked off, AI comes home.  

THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP 3: TALK TO THE CLAW

Pete Steinberger set the world on fire with OpenClaw, the first general-purpose agent - and one with a soul. We'll look at how being in the right time and the right place with the right vibe fundamentally changed the public perception of AI.   It took about three years after the release of ChatGP…

THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 EP 2 -- THE WATERSHED

THE NEXT BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 EP 2: THE WATERSHED ChatGPT opened the door to artificial intelligence. Almost immediately, researchers built 'agents' using it - but three years of hard yards passed before agents were 'good enough' to be useful. In this episode we trace the path from 'bad' to 'go…

THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI @ 70 Ep 1: AI TAKES THE PENSION

THIS BILLION SECONDS AI @ 70 -- EPISODE ONE: AI TAKES THE PENSION  On the 17th August 1956, artificial intelligence was born. The founders of the field reckoned they'd have thinking machines equivalent to humans in five year, perhaps ten at the most. What looked easy at the outset turned into a …

Pokemon Go used to train killer drones (RNZ Nine to Noon rebroadcast)

On RNZ's "Nine to Noon" Mark gave host Kathryn Ryan an update on the US export controls on the "Fable 5" AI model - and how that's causing them trouble with their allies, who had already integrated it into workflows. Then they'll look at what happens when a security researcher goes rogue - threaten…

Unsafe AI? Anthropic's Fable 5 - an AI that may be too smart for its own good (RNZ "Nine To Noon" rebroadcast)

On Friday 12 June, AI powerhouse Anthropic cut off all access to their latest-and-greatest "Fable 5" AI model. Based on the incredibly powerful Mythos - which has the capacity to hack into almost any computer - Fable had safeguards to block that sort of use - or so Anthropic believed. A hack to 'ja…

RNZ "Nine To Noon" - Vulnageddon, RAMageddon and ChatGPT Goblins?

Host Kathryn Ryan in conversation with Mark, profiling the concerning capability of Anthropic's Mythos AI model to hack into the most protected systems - now it seems other AI models are just as powerful. RAMageddon could be on the way - with a major shortage of RAM forcing prices higher and why do…

RNZ rebroadcast- Does Anthropic's Mythos threaten us all?

On "Nine to Noon" host Kathryn Ryan and Mark discuss Anthropic's latest 'Mythos' AI model,  considered so dangerous to cybersecurity the company has set up a cross-company partnership to work on patching all of the hacks it found. Will other companies be as responsible if similar, powerful models o…

RNZ Nine to Noon Replay: Anthropic vs. the Department of War

Leading AI firm Anthropic drew two red lines on their work with the newly renamed US 'Department of War': No mass surveillance of Americans, and no autonomous weapons. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hesgeth threatened to declare Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' (basically, an enemy of the state) unles…