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Mars helicopter crashes, poisoned AI goes rogue, and Netflix kills cheapest plan

Weekly report for Jan. 28th

January 29, 2024

TECH NEWS PICKS ✨

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Has Taken Its Final Flight

Originally designed for up to five flights on Mars, Ingenuity performed 72 over three years

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again

AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.

Netflix Killing Off Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan

The company made gains in ad-based subscribers, but the $12 Basic subscription is being cut out later in 2024 starting in Canada and the U.K.

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