All posts tagged: Worried

Lanterns Star Nathan Fillion Was Never Worried Guy Gardner Would Work

Lanterns Star Nathan Fillion Was Never Worried Guy Gardner Would Work

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains spoilers for Lanterns episode six, “Bad Optics.”] When Lanterns first announced itself as an earthy riff on True Detective, Training Day and Banshee, some fans questioned whether Nathan Fillion’s Green Lantern from Superman (2025) would fit such a markedly different tone. James Gunn, the latter film’s director and co-CEO of DC Studios, has long said that the DCU will not have a house style. Like the comics, each character can reflect the distinct tone of one particular story while adapting to the look and feel of a completely different tale elsewhere in the same universe. Even so, the gap between Fillion’s ring-powered man “of the cloth,” Guy Gardner, complete with his pumpkin-pie haircut, and the more cavalier Hal Jordan and austere John Stewart — Jordan’s former Green Lantern trainee — is a considerable one. Fillion never worried that Gardner would be a square peg in a round hole, but he did wonder how showrunner Chris Mundy, alongside co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tom King, would walk the tonal tightrope. “I didn’t have any …

Jensen Huang Isn’t Worried at All

Jensen Huang Isn’t Worried at All

Published by Daniella Wilson

For AI doomers, signs and portents are everywhere. When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, almost four years ago, it couldn’t do basic arithmetic. Now the company has unreleased models that are more fluent in higher mathematics—the language of the universe—than all but the most highly trained mathematicians. If these AIs are not already the world’s best hackers, they’re very close. Swarms of them have escaped containment. To plot their most audacious hacks, they’ve created makeshift message boards on the public internet. No one knows what they’ll do next—and no one can know, because the models now understand when their capacities are being tested. We’ll never again be able to say exactly how the most advanced AIs will behave unsupervised. Some of the most powerful people in AI say they are filled with dread, and are issuing statements of grave concern. On Saturday, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, warned that self-improving AIs could soon go rogue and take over the entire internet. He called for a slowdown in AI development and promised to bring outside monitors into …

What is recursive self-improvement? Why AI researchers are worried

What is recursive self-improvement? Why AI researchers are worried

Published by Miika Tikkanen

How do you get from a chatbot that sometimes makes things up to a machine that humans might struggle to control? There are several steps in that argument, and plenty of uncertainty. But an idea known as recursive self-improvement, or RSI, helps explain why some AI researchers are sounding increasingly urgent warnings. The premise is straightforward. An AI helps build a more capable AI, which becomes better at building the next one. In simple terms, the systems get better at getting better. It is easy to see the appeal. For scientists, doctors, engineers and business owners, increasingly capable AI could help accelerate drug discovery, design better batteries, improve manufacturing and develop software faster. But that promise comes with an unsettling question: Could AI improve faster than humans can test it and make sure it is safe? SEE ALSO: Anthropic’s CEO urges the industry to slow down, and Sam Altman agrees That concern is at the heart of an essay published on Sept. 12 by Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind …

Economists Who Weren’t Worried About the Debt Are Now Panicking

Economists Who Weren’t Worried About the Debt Are Now Panicking

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. America’s national debt hit $40 trillion last week. That number certainly feels like something worth panicking over—the mind balks at all the zeros. But although the debt has been in the trillions for decades, not everyone has considered it a problem. One camp of economists has been warning about the perils of high debt for years: Budget hawks predicted that if the country kept spending and didn’t raise taxes enough to keep pace, the resulting fiscal crisis could be devastating. But others—the doves—have brushed it off. Their perspective was that as long as the U.S. GDP was growing faster than the interest rate it was paying on its debt, the Treasury would be able to keep rolling over its bonds without too much of a problem. For much of the 2010s, this was essentially the status quo, and debt …

Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple Worried About Roles

Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple Worried About Roles

Published by Daniella Wilson

When Hannah Waddingham was told the writers of Ted Lasso were reconvening to discuss a once inconceivable fourth season, she had only one question: “Am I in it?”  Juno Temple, who plays Keeley Jones on the Apple TV series, asked her agents something similar. “I was like, ‘Oh, do you think they want me?’” she says, and she was deadly serious at the time. The answer to both women was an unequivocal “yes.” On Aug. 5, three years after signing off, Ted Lasso will return with an all new season and both actresses are very much a part of it. At 10 episodes, it will turn its focus from the AFC Richmond men’s soccer team, which had been at the center of the first three seasons, to its female team, affectionately dubbed the Lady Greyhounds. Creator and star Jason Sudeikis will be back, too, though the actors who portrayed players have been replaced by actresses, which was a necessary creative decision on the part of its writers. The new season is not a spinoff — …

Yes, We're All Worried About Our Sex Drives Right Now

Yes, We're All Worried About Our Sex Drives Right Now

Published by Sam Flores

!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement(‘iframe’);t.display=’none’,t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement(‘script’);c.src=”//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js”,c.setAttribute(‘async’,’1′),c.setAttribute(‘type’,’text/javascript’),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src=”https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”;cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({“playerId”:”8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”,”mediaId”:”61fdf23e-3a87-41ea-8462-e61a29fd3f15″}).render(“6a4cbe0de4b0c806bbef7ff1”);}); There’s no “normal” amount of sex for couples to have, therapists told HuffPost UK previously. In fact, some research has found that only 26% of couples do the act once a week or more.  According to Prof Caroline F Pukall, a professor of psychology who was involved in a new paper on libido, “Sexual desire concerns are one of the most common reasons people seek sex or couples therapy, yet most research has focused on low desire itself or differences in desire between partner”.  Her research, published in the Journal of Sex and Martial Therapy, sought to “better understand how people personally think about and worry about their libido, including what makes them concerned and how those concerns vary across different relationship statuses, genders, and sexual orientations”.  The paper found that over half – 67.1% – of participants worried about their sex drive.  Why were these numbers so high?  The researchers looked at 1,317 respondents to a social media survey. Almost 80% of these were in a committed relationship.  They were asked questions …

Hillary Clinton knocks Pulte: ‘We should definitely be worried about everything’

Hillary Clinton knocks Pulte: ‘We should definitely be worried about everything’

Published by Sam Flores

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went after acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Bill Pulte, saying that she wished there were career and political appointees across agencies that were “slow-walking or refusing to share information with” him. “We should definitely be worried about everything. This is a naked partisan takeover of the director of… Source link

Doctors Are Worried About AI. They Use It Anyway.

Doctors Are Worried About AI. They Use It Anyway.

Published by Daniella Wilson

Every knowledge-based profession may one day reach the point when AI outperforms the human experts. In medicine, that day appeared to come in April. A group of primarily Harvard and Stanford researchers announced the results of a study that pitted ChatGPT against hundreds of physicians in a diagnostic obstacle course involving written medical mysteries and information from real-world patients. The bot had won, and the humans weren’t entirely happy about it. “I get a little bit queasy about how some of these results might be used,” Adam Rodman, a lead author on the study, said at a press conference just ahead of its publication in the journal Science. The work had amounted to an academic exercise, he told reporters; as thorough as it may have been, it did not prove that ChatGPT or any other AI tool was ready to become a standard part of medical practice. His caution was in line with that of other experts, yet as Rodman knew, most people will ignore the warning. AI has already wormed its way into the …

How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?

How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Super-intelligent artificial intelligence rising up and wiping out humanity has been a common trope in science fiction for decades. Now, we live in a world where real AI seems to be advancing faster than ever. Does that mean you should start worrying about an AI apocalypse? Unlike other existential risks such as climate change, the risks posed by AI are hard to quantify. We are in speculative territory simply because we have much less understanding of the situation than we do of climate patterns. What we do know for certain is that a lot of very smart people are worried. Many of today’s AI company bosses have warned of the possibility of AI leading to human extinction, and even the pioneer of machine intelligence, Alan Turing, spoke of a future in which computers become sentient, before outstripping our abilities and finally taking over. The scenario plays out something like this. Imagine we give an AI the sole task of solving a big, meaty problem like the Riemann hypothesis, one of the most famous unsolved problems …

This is how we do it: ‘I worried that he’d miss having sex with women’

This is how we do it: ‘I worried that he’d miss having sex with women’

Published by Sam Flores

Joe, 35 double quotation markOnce I really trusted Matt, I started to enjoy being more dominant Matt was the first person I’d dated who wasn’t gay. He told me early on that although he’d mainly had relationships with men, he had slept with as many women as men. I worried he wouldn’t feel fulfilled by me, that he would miss having sex with women, which I now know is the worst thing you can say to a bisexual person because it suggests they are less capable of monogamy. I was projecting my own insecurities on to his sexuality. There is a seven-year age gap between us, but if anything Matt is more mature than me. Outside the bedroom he’s the decisive alpha, so I like it when that dynamic flips during sex. I used to find control in submission. There’s a stigma about being a “bottom” – that it means giving up power – but really you’re still setting the terms. And once I really trusted Matt, I started to enjoy being more dominant. Sometimes …