Hacker News with Generative AI: Artificial Intelligence

The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI (fortune.com)
The most underreported and important story in AI right now is that pure scaling has failed to produce AGI
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
8 points by unclebucknasty 18 minutes ago | 2 comments
AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone–Here's What to Do Instead (eff.org)
You shouldn't need a permission slip to read a webpage–whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help. AI is a category of general-purpose tools with myriad beneficial uses. Requiring developers to license the materials needed to create this technology threatens the development of more innovative and inclusive AI models, as well as important uses of AI as a tool for expression and scientific research.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Law, Technology, Open Source
6 points by hn_acker 3 hours ago | 0 comments
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years (bbc.co.uk)
A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool.
Artificial Intelligence, Microbiology, Medical Research, Science
11 points by monkeydust 4 hours ago | 3 comments
The Plot Against America (notesfromthecircus.com)
As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government. Inside the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), teams of young tech operatives are systematically dismantling democratic institutions and replacing them with proprietary artificial intelligence systems.
Politics, Government, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
10 points by _hao 4 hours ago | 1 comments
Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control (figure.ai)
We're introducing Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics.
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Vision-Language-Action Models, Machine Learning
148 points by Philpax 4 hours ago | 88 comments
Trillions of Viruses Live in Your Body. A.I. Is Trying to Find Them. (nytimes.com)
The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to bed and the smallpox viruses that may send us to the grave.
Viruses, Artificial Intelligence, Human Body, Science, Health
6 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 1 comments
Turns out the AI CUDA Engineer achieved 100x speedup by hacking the eval script (twitter.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, Programming, Software Engineering
31 points by pr337h4m 9 hours ago | 3 comments
DeepSeek-V3-Turkish (ycombinator.com)
This project translates the English descriptions in the DeepSeek-V3 AI repository into Turkish.
Translation, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Language
3 points by can-deliktas 11 hours ago | 0 comments
Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson (thealgorithmicbridge.com)
For once, it seems Elon Musk wasn’t exaggerating when he called Grok 3 the “smartest AI on Earth.” Grok 3 is a massive leap forward compared to Grok 2. (You can watch the full presentation here.)
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Elon Musk
117 points by kiyanwang 12 hours ago | 171 comments
The Complexity of Agency (thetransmitter.org)
As we attempt to build autonomous artificial-intelligence systems, we’re discovering that a capability we take for granted in animals may be much more complex than we imagined.
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Agency
5 points by wjb3 12 hours ago | 0 comments
Britain dances to JD Vance's tune as it renames AI institute (politico.eu)
“The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” Vance said.
Artificial Intelligence, Politics, United Kingdom
46 points by mellosouls 12 hours ago | 33 comments
Show HN: ArXiv-txt, LLM-friendly ArXiv papers (arxiv-txt.org)
Make arXiv papers easily available in LLM-friendly formats.
Research, Science, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source
17 points by jerpint 15 hours ago | 6 comments
Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA (nextgov.com)
A handle dubbed “Rivage” was reportedly tied to Coristine, and used to discuss and solicit hacking activities with a cybercrime syndicate known as The Com.
Cybersecurity, Government, Crime, Artificial Intelligence
85 points by chonkerz 16 hours ago | 55 comments
Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
Magma is the first foundation model that is capable of interpreting and grounding multimodal inputs within its environment. Given a described goal, Magma is able to formulate plans and execute actions to achieve it. By effectively transferring knowledge from freely available visual and language data, Magma bridges verbal, spatial and temporal intelligence to navigate complex tasks and settings.
Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models, Multimodal AI, Computer Vision, Robotics
290 points by SerCe 17 hours ago | 66 comments
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers (nytimes.com)
Microsoft now says it has created a new state of matter in its quest to make a powerful machine, called a quantum computer, that could accelerate the development of everything from batteries to medicines to artificial intelligence.
Quantum Computing, Microsoft, Physics, Artificial Intelligence
4 points by meistro 18 hours ago | 1 comments
WonderHuman: 3D avatars from single-view video (arxiv.org)
In this paper, we present WonderHuman to reconstruct dynamic human avatars from a monocular video for high-fidelity novel view synthesis.
Computer Vision, 3D Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Animation
35 points by jinqueeny 19 hours ago | 5 comments
Grok 3 Beta – The Age of Reasoning Agents (x.ai)
We are thrilled to unveil an early preview of Grok 3, our most advanced model yet, blending superior reasoning with extensive pretraining knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence, Beta Releases, Reasoning
19 points by zachur 20 hours ago | 1 comments
Behavioural Patterns Are the New Skin Colour (nthprocess.com)
In a system that can't see you, your behavioural patterns become the things that are used to discriminate against you.
Artificial Intelligence, Discrimination, Privacy, Social Justice
18 points by shaydevelops 21 hours ago | 7 comments
I built a large language model "from scratch" (brettgfitzgerald.com)
I’m a machine learning / A.I. hobbyist. The technologies fascinate me, and I can’t seem to learn enough about them. Sebastian Raschka’s book, Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) caught my eye. I don’t recall how I stumbled on it, but I found it when it was still in early access from Manning Publications. I purchased it, and started working through it as the final chapters were being written and released.
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Programming
86 points by controversy187 22 hours ago | 15 comments
Apple’s closed-source approach is losing out to AI app builders (telkins.dev)
As a long-time iOS developer, it's frustrating — to say the least — as I watch the entire development landscape change while we are stuck in place.
Apple, iOS Development, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source
93 points by trevor-e 22 hours ago | 69 comments
Perplexity claims to have purged Chinese censorship from its new DeepSeek clone (sherwood.news)
Perplexity claims to have purged Chinese censorship and propaganda from its new DeepSeek clone
Artificial Intelligence, Search Engines, Censorship
6 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 0 comments
AI Models Like GPT-4o Change Without Warning. Here's What You Can Do About It (libretto.ai)
As we move into a world where more and more of our software depends on large language models like GPT and Claude, we are increasingly hearing about the problem of “model drift”. Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are constantly updating their deployed models in a ton of different ways. Most of the time, these updates don’t make much of a difference, but once in a while, they can absolutely torpedo one of your prompts.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Programming
13 points by aickin 23 hours ago | 5 comments
Trump Team Plans Mass Firings at Key Agency for AI and Chips (bgov.com)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a lab housed under the Commerce Department, is preparing to fire as many as roughly 500 probationary staffers as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal government.
Politics, Artificial Intelligence, Government, Technology, Employment
24 points by apical_dendrite 23 hours ago | 9 comments
GPT4 level intelligence fell 1000x in 18 months (twitter.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Progress
11 points by stevekrouse 1 day ago | 14 comments
Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation (microsoft.com)
Today, the journal Nature (opens in new tab) is publishing our latest research, which introduces the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM). The WHAM, which we’ve named “Muse,” is a generative AI model of a video game that can generate game visuals, controller actions, or both.
Generative AI, Video Games, Artificial Intelligence, Research
8 points by nwjsmith 1 day ago | 0 comments
Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist (research.google)
We introduce AI co-scientist, a multi-agent AI system built with Gemini 2.0 as a virtual scientific collaborator to help scientists generate novel hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the clock speed of scientific and biomedical discoveries.
Generative AI, Science, Artificial Intelligence, Research
354 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 188 comments
Experiment: Can 3D improve AI video consistency? (backdroptech.github.io)
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Artificial Intelligence, 3D, Computer Vision, Experiments
65 points by TobiasEnholmX 1 day ago | 35 comments
EU accused of leaving 'devastating' copyright loophole in AI Act (theguardian.com)
An architect of EU copyright law has said legislation is needed to protect writers, musicians and creatives left exposed by an “irresponsible” legal gap in the bloc’s Artificial Intelligence Act.
EU Law, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Creative Industries
8 points by belter 1 day ago | 1 comments
Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows (livescience.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Science, Research, Aging
7 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | 5 comments
Fast Video Generation with Sliding Tile Attention (hao-ai-lab.github.io)
TL;DR: Video generation with DiTs is painfully slow – HunyuanVideo takes 16 minutes to generate just a 5-second video on an H100 with FlashAttention3. Our sliding tile attention (STA) slashes this to 5 minutes with zero quality loss, no extra training required. Specifically, STA accelerates attention alone by 2.8–17x over FlashAttention-2 and 1.6–10x over FlashAttention-3.
Video Generation, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Optimization, Performance
12 points by zhisbug 2 days ago | 2 comments