Eric Hal Schwartz

1 month ago | techradar.com | Eric Hal Schwartz

• The jailbreak can trick major chatbots into helping commit crimes or other unethical activity• Some AI models are now being deliberately designed without ethical constraints, even as calls grow for stronger oversightI've enjoyed testing the boundaries of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, but while I once was able to get a recipe for napalm by asking for it in the form of a nursery rhyme, it's been a long time since I've been able to get any AI chatbot to even get close to a major ethical line.

1 month ago | techradar.com | Eric Hal Schwartz

• AI chatbots and videos use up a huge amount of energy and water • A five-second AI video uses as much energy as a microwave running for an hour or more • Data center energy use has doubled since 2017, and AI will account for half ot it by 2028 It only takes a few minutes in a microwave to explode a potato you haven't ventilated, but it takes as much energy as running that microwave for over an hour and more than a dozen potato explosions for an AI model to make a five-second video of a...

1 month ago | techradar.com | Eric Hal Schwartz

Google's unveiling of a new line of AI-fueled smart glasses built on the Android XR platform was only one of dozens of announcements at Google I/O this year. Even so, one facet in particular caught my eye as more important than it might have seemed to a casual viewer. While the idea of wearing AI-powered lenses that can whisper directions into your ears while projecting your to-do list onto a mountain vista is exciting, it's how you'll look while you use them that grabbed my attention.

1 month ago | techradar.com | Eric Hal Schwartz

• Anthropic has debuted two new Claude AI models named Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4• Claude Opus 4 claims to be the best coding AI in the world• Claude Sonnet 4 is a smaller, streamlined model with major upgrades from Sonnet 3.7 version. Anthropic has unveiled Claude 4, the latest generation of its AI models.

1 month ago | techradar.com | Eric Hal Schwartz

(Image credit: OpenAI & Google)Anyone who's played around with AI chatbots over the last couple of years has seen enormous leaps in their ability and range of features, even if not quite the revolutionary sort proclaimed by their various developers. Most of them claim to be the best choice, including Google's new Gemini 2.5 Flash model.