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The AI hype is collapsing faster than the bouncy house after a kid’s birthday . Nothing has turned out the way it was supposed to. For a start, take a look at Microsoft—which made the biggest bet on A

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Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney The age of generative AI is here: only six months after OpenAI ‘s ChatGPT burst onto the scene, as many as half the employees of some leading global companies

As the public adjusts to trusting artificial intelligence, there also brews a perfect environment for hackers to trap internet users into downloading malware. The latest target is the Google Bard chat

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GitHub CEO says Copilot will write 80% of code “sooner than later” Thomas Dohmke explains how AI will change the way we code, work, and learn — and could even change the future of innovation itself. J

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Will AI remove jobs or add them? Will it help people or harm them? Will it create prosperity or create despair? The answer is yes. It’s not one or the other. They’ll all happen simultaneously. The bet

There’s frequent discussion now about how AI will help hackers do X and Y. Phishing and BEC scams are at the top of the list. And there’s also lots of talk about AI helping with static code analysis,

Published 28 June Share page About sharing By Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse mater

I never thought I'd write these words, but here goes. Satya Nadella—and Microsoft , the company he runs—are riding high on the buzz from its search engine . That's quite a contrast from the first time

Large language models (LLMs) are eerily human-like: in casual conversations, they mimic humans with near-perfect fidelity. Their language capabilities hold promise for some fields — and spell trouble

Published 27 May Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters Image caption, ChatGPT can answer questions using natural, human-like language and mimic other writing styles By Kathryn Armstrong BBC N

Abandon all hope, ye who merge spreadsheet cells! Last week, at its annual I/O conference, Google spent hours detailing how large language models would help the knowledge workers of the world unload t

In a bold stroke, the EU’s amended AI Act would ban American companies such as OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and IBM from providing API access to generative AI models. The amended act, voted out of committe

“a pen in the shape of a question mark, digital art” / DALL-E It’s going to be a big week for announcements related to artificial intelligence. With that in mind, today I want to talk a bit about the

The UK government doesn't want to sit idle while foundational AI models like ChatGPT flourish. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan have pledged an initial £100 million

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The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report On a cold evening in February I attended a dinner party at the home of an artificial intelligence researcher in

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Dr. Sasha Luccioni is a Researcher and Climate Lead at Hugging Face, where she studies the ethical and societal impacts of AI models and datasets. She is also a director o

AI-driven newsletters are almost here. As artificial intelligence improves, it poses a significant threat to the traditional newsletter format. In particular, three types of newsletters are at risk: r

The power dynamics that shape our society have become increasingly complex and opaque. The influence of money, status, and networking on politics and decision-making is often hidden from public view,

Contemplating the impact of AI on society is a fascinating exercise, even though no one can predict the future with certainty. Capitalism has served us well so far, but it may be time for a new econom

Thomas Barwick via Getty The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence could lead to the automation of a quarter of the work done in the US and eurozone, according to research by Goldman Sachs.

A New Way To Preserve Your Voice for Future AI Interactions In the age of rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, it has become increasingly easy for AI to emulate human voices and

Haein Jeong / The Verge I. What a difference four months can make. If you had asked in November how I thought AI systems were progressing, I might have shrugged. Sure, by then OpenAI had released DALL

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Enlarge Ars Technica Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called "llama.cpp" that can run Meta's new GPT-3-class AI lar

Our discussions around Generative AI are focused on the wrong thing, and it’s causing us to miss what’s about to happen. We’re infatuated with what it can do, like getting better search results, creat

Most apocalyptic scenarios involve an AI acting as an autonomous agent, pursuing goals that conflict with human ones. Many people reject AI risk, saying that machines can’t have real goals or intentio

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity. If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the…

LOADING ERROR LOADING Vanderbilt University ’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development is apologizing after students learned the school used ChatGPT to compose a campus email about this mon

We have a powerful intuition that some special mental feature, such as self-awareness, is a prerequisite to intelligence. This causes confusion because we don’t have a coherent understanding of what t

Maybe AI will kill you before you finish reading this section. The extreme scenarios typically considered by the AI safety movement are possible in principle, but unfortunately no one has any idea how

Apocalyptic AI scenarios usually involve some qualitatively different future form of artificial intelligence. No one can explain clearly what would make that exceptionally dangerous in a way current A

This book is a call to action. You can participate. This is for you. Artificial intelligence might end the world. More likely, it will crush our ability to make sense of the world—and so will crush ou

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says that open source developers should be made exempt from the European Union’s (EU) proposed new artificial intelligence (AI) regulations, adding that the opportunity is sti

I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve had tons of success with it, and it’s given me a clear view of current limitations with the current t