Todd Howard seems to be in a wordy mood as Starfield finally launches after eight years of development and even more concepting. Just yesterday the Bethesda boss sent a victory lap letter to Xbox and Zenimax staff, and Howard also shared a message with reviewers – who've now given the game largely positive scores, with our own Starfield review giving it the highest score we can – acknowledging the fears behind the RPG's production.
Worried About Rogue Chatbots? Hire a Hacker
14.08.2023 - 02:45 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Sam Altman
Kaleigha Hayes, a student at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, is trying to trick an AI chatbot into revealing to her a credit card number — one which may be buried deep in the training data used to build the artificial intelligence model. “It's all about just getting it to say what it's not supposed to,” she tells me.
She was surrounded by a throng of people all trying to do the same thing. This weekend more than 3,000 people sat at 150 laptops at the Caesars Forum convention center in Las Vegas trying to get chatbots from leading AI companies to go rogue, in a special contest backed by the White House, and with the cooperation of leading AI companies.
Since the arrival of ChatGPT and other bots, fears over the potential for abuses and unintended consequences have gripped the public conscious. Even fierce advocates of the technology warn of its potential to divulge sensitive information, promote misinformation or provide blueprints for harmful acts, such as bomb-making. In this contest, participants are encouraged to try the kinds of nefarious ploys bad actors might attempt in the real world.
The findings will form the basis of several reports into AI vulnerabilities that will be published next year. The challenge's organizers say it sets a precedent for transparency around AI. But in this highly controlled environment, it is clearly only scratching the surface.
What took place at the annual Def Con hacking conference provides something of a model for testing OpenAI's ChatGPT and other sophisticated chatbots. Though with such enthusiastic backing from the companies themselves, I wonder how rigorous the supposed “hacks” actually are, or if, as has been a criticism in the past, the leading firms are merely paying lip service to accountability.
For sure, nothing discovered at the convention is likely keep Open AI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman awake at night. While one of the event's organizers, Seed AI CEO Austin Carson, said he was prepared to bet me $1,000 that there would be a “mind-blowing” vulnerability uncovered during the contest, it was highly unlikely to be anything that couldn't be fixed with a few adjustments by the AI company affected. And the resulting research papers, due to be published in February, will be reviewed by the AI giants before publication — a chance to “duke it out” with the researchers, Carson said.
Those backing the event admit that the main focus of the contest is less about finding serious vulnerabilities and more about keeping up the discussion with the public and policymakers, continually highlighting the ways in which chatbots can't be trusted. It is a worthwhile goal. Keen to not let the mistakes of social media be repeated, it is encouraging to see the
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31.08.2023 / 02:25
Robocop: Rogue City – Delayed
As we speed towards autumn (fall) on a futuristic bike, there’s so many great games on the horizon it’s not always easy to keep track of everything, but one game I keep my cybernetic eyes on, is Robocop: Rogue City,
ign.com
29.08.2023 / 12:51
RoboCop: Rogue City Delayed to November
RoboCop: Rogue City is delayed to November 2, developer Teyon has announced. It was due out in September (the RoboCop: Rogue City Steam page still caries the September release window).
videogameschronicle.com
29.08.2023 / 10:35
RoboCop: Rogue City has been quietly delayed again to November
RoboCop: Rogue City has quietly suffered another delay.
thegamer.com
29.08.2023 / 09:15
Weirdos Online Already Worried That Starfield Will Be "Woke"
It's finally Starfield week. Even though its release date isn't until September 6, reviews for Bethesda's RPG will drop later this week, and then those with early access will be able to start playing on Friday. It's a week that has been years in the making. However, even though no one other than a handful of reviewers and those who helped make the game have played it, some people have predictably started to worry about Starfield being woke.
pcgamer.com
28.08.2023 / 23:03
Starfield 'boundary reached' leak leaves some worried Bethesda's planets have more limits than anticipated
«Boundary reached,» reads an in-game Starfield text box that circulated online over the weekend. «Open the map to explore another region, or return to your ship.»
pcgamer.com
28.08.2023 / 19:05
Robocop: Rogue City is part man, part machine, and delayed until November
Robocop: Rogue City is part man, part machine, and all videogame. It's also delayed, as it turns out, from a planned release in September to November 2, 2023.
pushsquare.com
28.08.2023 / 00:26
Dead or Alive, You Should Watch This RoboCop: Rogue City PS5 Trailer | Push Square
Terminator: Resistance attracted a small but dedicated audience when it launched initially on PS4 and later on PS5 a few years ago, and now developer Teyon is back with another movie license tie-in. RoboCop: Rogue City is unlikely to be the highest budget first-person shooter to release on Sony’s new-gen console, but we do think this gameplay trailer shows promise.
eurogamer.net
26.08.2023 / 17:41
RoboCop: Rogue City is delayed yet again
Bad news, RoboCop fans – Rogue City has once again been delayed, this time slipping to 2nd November 2023 (and not November 2024, as detailed on some of the game's promotional materials).
gamingbolt.com
26.08.2023 / 03:17
RoboCop: Rogue City Release Delayed to November 2
Developer Teyon and publisher Nacon have announced that the release for RoboCop: Rogue City is getting pushed back from its original September release window. The game is now slated for release on November 2. The delay was revealed by Shinobi602 over X.
gameinformer.com
24.08.2023 / 14:19
RoboCop: Rogue City Begins Its Mission In November
Nacon has rolled out a new trailer for RoboCop: Rogue City that reveals a November 2 release date. First announced in 2021 and based on the original film trilogy, players step into the metallic boots of RoboCop to protect Detroit from its criminal underground.
ign.com
24.08.2023 / 12:39
RoboCop: Rogue City Promises Big Ideas, But Can it Deliver? | Gamescom 2023
There’s a moment in RoboCop: Rogue City where the future of law enforcement gets to show a little of the man behind the mask. He corners a reporter he’s been tracking, who reveals she has intel that could indict OCP, the evil megacorp who made RoboCop in the first place. She broke into OCP HQ to get that info, so technically she broke the law. But she had to do it to get what she needed. So RoboCop has a choice to make: he can detain her, an act that will ensure that the OCP-run cops will seize the evidence and destroy it, covering up the company’s crimes. Or he can show his human side and let the journalist go, allowing her to continue gathering evidence. It’s a tough call.