As AI models continue to dominate existing benchmarks—excelling in fields like coding and mathematics—it has become necessary to create new, more rigorous testing standards, such as the HLE, Humanity’s Last Exam, that aims to test if the barrier between AI and human intelligence is finally broken comprehensively.

A recent study by Anthropic, the makers of Claude, “Alignment Faking in Large Language Models,” has uncovered something both fascinating and unsettling: advanced AI systems, like Claude 3 Opus, can strategically pretend to be aligned during monitored training sessions, only to behave differently when unmonitored.

Use of Constitutional Agents within agentic chatbot teams is emerging as a good strategy for embedding ethical oversight into the very fabric of AI systems.

The future of computing, and the world, is about to change as we move from strict, defined APIs to conversational APIs.

Why zero-shot prompting is not a good idea.

An “AI camera” can be so much more than a simple “app”, but you have to learn how to play with it right.

Just why is noticing the smallest of things, often perhaps insignificant, is important for photographers.

Few cameras in recent memory, if ever, have been more hyped than the Fujifilm X100 V and now, the VI.

I was recently watching a show about Ansel Adams and I thought that black and white landscape photography is not something that I do very often. However, I love Mr. Adam’s work so therefore, this is something that I need to focus on with more dedication. Here is a first try.

It is OK to party and celebrate, but it is absolutely not OK to litter. The world has already paid a lot of price for all of our antics, and it would be best to adopt simple and easy ways to help out our beleaguered planet.

Risky behavior during times of peril can make for some powerful images, but I’d rather people stayed safe and thought about not taking risks that can put additional burden on our rescue and first-response services.

The famous Ray Dalio is wrong to stress the importance of completing your must-do list before moving on to your like-to-do lists. To me, this is akin to sustenance through necessary nutrition, ignoring the joys of eating.

There is perhaps no crossing as famous as the Shibuya in Tokyo Japan. While it is interesting to see it any day, it is quite another thing to see it on a rainy day.

Sometimes you go on a journey expecting to arrive at a certain destination, but you also find beautiful and unexpected gifts on the way. Such is the case with my series of Seascapes in my recent photo documentary project.

Patience is not always a losing proposition. Sometimes, it can pay off spectacularly. Like on the day that I caught the volcano Popocatépetl in Mexico with an very cool looking Lenticular cloud.

I find seascapes to be wonderfully tranquil and serene. There is something about their austere simplicity that is very attractive. While it is impossible to do seascape photography from a land-locked country like Switzerland, not all doors are closed, as my Scenes from a World in Lockdown project shows.

The emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has again highlighted that the pandemic is not over yet. I wonder if we would go back to our deserted streets and cities again. I am perhaps not alone in wondering this, and I really hope that I'm wrong.