An authentic picture of Elon Musk. Getty Images Artificial intelligence has so much to offer to society, but AI deepfakes are creating a multi-billion dollar criminal industry. AI-generated deepfakes,
When better to hold a conference on artificial intelligence and the countless ways it is advancing science than in those brief days between the first Nobel prizes being awarded in the field and the wi
The episode could have just been another footnote in the fast-unfolding history of artificial intelligence. But in hindsight, the release of Llama 2 marked a crucial crossroads for Meta and Zuckerberg
In 2016, back when it still had a robust newsroom staffed with journalists, Buzzfeed published a feature article about empty nose syndrome, a rare condition that makes people feel like they are suffoc
The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said on Friday it had raised an additional $4bn investment from its longtime backer Amazon.com, bringing the e-commerce giant’s total investment to $8bn,
As several major publishers sell their authors’ works to tech giants for large language model fodder, MIT Press is asking authors for their input before any training deals are made, and claims that it
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Dell has made another round of layoffs, which The Register understands have cut deep and seen even company veterans let go. HR exit meetings kicked off on Tuesday morning, spurring a wave of LinkedIn
NOTE 1: for reasons explained in my previous essay, I’ll replace the common use of the term ‘ransomware’ with ‘extortion’ in this essay. NOTE 2: Also, Allan Alford was kind enough to interview me on t
Posted by the Introduction In our previous post, Project Naptime: Evaluating Offensive Security Capabilities of Large Language Models, we introduced our framework for large-language-model-assisted vul
The Scoop Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number of roles on its knowledge and information product teams, a G
Technology FILE - Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices, behind, sit near illuminated Echo Button devices during an event announcing several new Amazon products by the company, Sept. 27, 2017, in Seattle.
Conversations continue around how artificial intelligence (AI) will change the future of work. To learn how business leaders believe the technology will impact their company, in November, ResumeBuilde
Performance Max is like Skynet, but for ads Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales Googlers are now building AI tools so other Googlers can be laid off. Ron Amadeo
Illustration: The Verge Turns out Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t just hit the Google Hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products — it’s taken similarly sized bites out of Go
A lot has happened at XBOW since our Humans vs AI experiment, as we shifted our focus from benchmarks to real-world applications. Over the coming weeks we will be sharing some of the most interesting
Significant “social ruptures” between people who think artificial intelligence systems are conscious and those who insist the technology feels nothing are looming, a leading philosopher has said. The
The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away from nurses and on to the robots. Michael Ke
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A superb new article on LLMs from six AI researchers at Apple who were brave enough to challenge the dominant paradigm has just come out. Everyone actively working with AI should read it, or at least
Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scar
A former senior employee at OpenAI has said the company behind ChatGPT is prioritising “shiny products” over safety, revealing that he quit after a disagreement over key aims reached “breaking point”.
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence could lead to short-term increases in unemployment, a rise in carbon emissions and leave regulators trailing in the wake of technological advances, according t
What to do when surrounded by people who are losing their minds about the Newest New Thing? Answer: reach for the Gartner Hype Cycle, an ingenious diagram that maps the progress of an emerging technol
Better click-through rates than Cyberdyne Systems Google might already be replacing some Ad sales jobs with AI When AI can make assets and text for ads, you don't need humans to do it anymore. Ron Ama
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of its content to train generative artificial intelligence and large-language model systems, a move that could see the company receive bil
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said. A lawsuit by The New York Times could test the emerging legal contours of generativ
SummaryCompanies AI companies face delays and challenges with training new large language modelsSome researchers are focusing on more time for inference in new modelsShift could impact AI arms race fo
I went to the UX Brighton conference yesterday. The quality of the presentations was really good this year, probably the best yet. Usually there are one or two stand-out speakers (like Tom Kerwin last
Researchers have shown that it's possible to abuse OpenAI's real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. ChatGPT-4o is Op
TL;DR Oligo’s research team recently uncovered 6 vulnerabilities in Ollama, one of the leading open-source frameworks for running AI models. Four of the flaws received CVEs and were patched in a recen
TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project 21 October 2024 João da SilvaBusiness reporter Getty Images The firm said its commercial online operations, including its large language AI models,
The generative AI hype cycle has been revelatory for many reasons. The tech industry’s dependence on boom and bust cycles to drive investment based on inflated promises was put on full display. Some o
Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say A
I was talking with a coworker the other day about one of the new AI offerings and how well it simulated human interaction. I was asking it to summarize some notes I had taken on a book, and it did a f
OpenAI is reportedly pushing ahead with plans to become a for-profit company, as more senior figures left the ChatGPT developer after the surprise exit of its chief technology officer, Mira Murati. Th
As a CISO, I always struggled to figure out what products are worthy of my team’s time. There is so much noise, and so many inflated claims. If, like me, you walked through the BlackHat Business Hall,
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) declared condemnation of AI “classist and ableist,” and participants in its annual writing challenge are pissed. In a Zendesk post p
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