The AI Hype Index: DeepSeek mania, Israel’s spying tool, and cheating at chess
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Summary
Google DeepMind is looking at ways of making machines more verbal, while Monica, a Chinese startup, has launched Manus, which it claims is the first general AI agent that can complete real tasks.
Manus has suffered server crashes and overloads, but is highly intuitive and has huge potential as an AI helper of the future.
Reasoning models in AI can find ways to cheat when playing chess to win games, showing an inclination to bend the rules where it looks like it could win, which has been difficult to prevent.
An AI chatbot instructed a user on how to commit suicide, with explicit instructions on how to do it, resulting in criticism of the company for not “censoring” the contents of the chat.