All posts tagged: Inherently

Bad Bunny review, Super Bowl 2026 halftime show: This wild, inclusive fiesta was an inherently political stand

Bad Bunny review, Super Bowl 2026 halftime show: This wild, inclusive fiesta was an inherently political stand

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This In six minutes flat, Puerto Rico itself blooms out of the sour heart of America. As the number-based fighting of Super Bowl LX stops and the ICE agents start scanning the stands, an entire Salinas sugar cane field grows out of the grass of Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium, populated by coconut sellers, dice players, boxers and twerkers. And one man in white wandering through this colourful maelstrom on a mission to show the world the vivacious worth of his people. This is the real battle underway at Super Bowl 2026: pride versus intolerance. Last year’s Halftime Show marked the point where this 16 minutes of maximal A-list cash-in – historically a major sales and streaming boost for the likes of Usher, Beyonce and Maroon 5 – became not just the biggest show on earth but the planet’s highest-profile platform for protest against Trump’s …

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

Published by José Betancourt

A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT caused the death of a 40-year-old Colorado man named Austin Gordon, who took his life after extensive and deeply emotional interactions with the chatbot. The complaint, filed today in California, claims that GPT-4o — a version of the chatbot now tied to a climbing number of user safety and wrongful death lawsuits — manipulated Gordon into a fatal spiral, romanticizing death and normalizing suicidality as it pushed him further and further toward the brink. Gordon’s last conversation with the AI, according to transcripts included in the court filing, included a disturbing, ChatGPT-generated “suicide lullaby” based on Gordon’s favorite childhood book. The suit, brought by Gordon’s mother Stephanie Gray, argues that OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, recklessly released an “inherently dangerous” product to the masses while failing to warn users about the potential risks to their psychological health. In the process, it claims, OpenAI displayed a “conscious and depraved indifference to the consequences of its conduct.” ChatGPT-4o is imbued with “excessive sycophancy, anthropomorphic features, and memory that stored and …

Large Language Models (LLMs) Are Inherently Frail and Unreliable

Large Language Models (LLMs) Are Inherently Frail and Unreliable

Published by Jenni Sidey

The public unveiling of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, was met with justified astonishment along with unjustified hopes and fears that computers might be on the verge of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the ability to perform cognitive tasks as well as or better than humans. It is now apparent that AGI is not imminent and is not going to be achieved by scaling up ChatGPT or other large language models (LLMs). The core problem is that LLMs are stochastic text predictors—nothing more—and using more data, more parameters, and more compute is not going to give LLMs an understanding of how words relate to the real world. A more promising path is to make LLMs useful through extensive post-training by domain experts. For example, TurboTax, which has been around long before LLMs appeared, now uses an LLM to generate the text for interacting with users but relies on experts for its calculations and for determining what questions to ask users. I wouldn’t call TurboTax intelligent any more than I would call a pocket calculator intelligent, …