Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

[ad_1] Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. AI can decisively out-persuade humans:…“AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans”…Researchers with the University of Oxford, UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University, and the London …

Authentication, sharded tables, conversational search and faster vector search

Authentication, sharded tables, conversational search and faster vector search

[ad_1] Manticore Search 27.1.5 has been released. This release brings built-in authentication and authorization, sharded tables, conversational search, faster HNSW builds, better faceting and aggregations, and a long list of fixes across KNN, replication, protocol compatibility and other areas. This post is a catch-up for everything shipped from 25.0.1 through 27.1.5. Upgrade Notes Please review …

Read this before you vibe-code another app

Read this before you vibe-code another app

[ad_1] Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. “Boomberg” showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn’t until months after the site went live that he realized there was a problem: a hidden SQL injection risk. It could’ve left the …