Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion
Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior — Several recent studies have shown that artificial-intelligence …
Researchers detail RoboPAIR, an algorithm that is designed to induce robots, relying on LLMs for their inputs, to ignore models' safeguards without exception
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As CS students experiment with AI coding tools, professors say courses need to focus less on syntax and more on problem solving, design, testing, and debugging
As CS students experiment with AI coding tools, professors say courses need to focus less on syntax and more on problem solving, design, testing, and debugging
Professors are shifting away from syntax and emphasizing higher-level skills — Generative AI is transforming the software development industry.
An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn's push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering
For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself in an early-stage tech startup to study its organization and culture. X: @ieeespectrum , @p_h_albuquerque , an...
Research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the LLM itself, raising suspicions that a fair portion of prompt engineering jobs may be a passing fad
Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering …
A look at Wi-Fi 7, slated for certification in Q1 2024, with multi-link operations that allow devices to spread a data stream across multiple frequency bands
A look at Wi-Fi 7, slated for certification in Q1 2024, with multi-link operations that allow devices to spread a data stream across multiple frequency bands
https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi- fi-7 Damn. Just when I'm settling in with eero WiFi Pro 6E routers.... (which are AWESOME, by the way). X: Lucas Holt / @laffer1 : That's half the ...
A look at Wi-Fi 7, slated for certification in Q1 2024, with multi-link operations that allow devices to spread a data stream across multiple frequency bands
Wi-Fi is one of the most aggravating success stories. Despite how ubiquitous the technology has become in our lives … Mastodon: @dsilverman@mastodon.social . X: @ieeespectrum . Fo...
How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters
First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe.
Q&A with Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, who was awarded IEEE's Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, and more
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Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of IEEE's Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, more
“That's always an exciting place to be — a place where nobody's ever been before." — Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence …
A profile of Kim Choong-Ki, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology who is revered as the godfather of South Korea's chip industry
Dong-Won Kim / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @martijnrasser and @ieeespectrum Tweets: Martijn Rasser / @martijnrasser : “They were called “Kim's Mafia.” Kim Choong-Ki himself wouldn't h...
Blind patients with Second Sight's electronic retinal implants are in danger of losing their artificial vision as the tech becomes obsolete and unsupported
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark — Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour … Tweets: @carnage4life , @step...
Q&A: web cryptography pioneers Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk on recent advances in authentication tech, and what the future could look like
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Q&A: web cryptography pioneers Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk on recent advances in authentication tech, and what the future could look like
Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk were instrumental in shaping how the Internet works. Now they're looking at what's next for web security. Tweets: @ieeespectrum Twe...