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NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment
Leading today: NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment. Also in this issue: An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat; Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 34 candidates across the day's feeds.
| 1 | theverge.com NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassmentNew Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. |
| 2 | theverge.com An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheatStarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. |
| 3 | the-decoder.com Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their testsSelf-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. |
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