“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
This statement, released this week by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), reflects an overarching — and some might say overreaching — worry about doomsday scenarios due to a runaway superintelligence. The CAIS statement mirrors the dominant concerns…
During her 2023 TED Talk, computer scientist Yejin Choi made a seemingly contradictory statement when she said, “AI today is unbelievably intelligent and then shockingly stupid.” How could something intelligent be stupid?
On its own, AI — including generative AI —…
AI is everywhere. Its use is being debated in headlines, on social media and around dinner tables. To some, the rate of AI acceleration is concerning, with many technology leaders calling for a six-month pause in the training of new systems to better understand the impact…
For as long as AI technology has been a part of the larger tech narrative, fear has also been a part of that conversation. Part of that is simply the common, ever-present fear of the unknown — we don’t know exactly what implications this tech will have in the long run, and most people don’t understand what the tech is capable of. However, contrary to those existing fears, AI was never…
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The chief technology officer of OpenAI appeared to have her Twitter account hacked on Thursday evening to promote a fraudulent…
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A group of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) experts — including many pioneering researchers who have sounded…
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Vectara is continuing to grow as an AI powered conversational search platform with new capabilities announced today that aim to improve generative AI for business data.
The Santa Clara, Calif.- based startup emerged from stealth in Oct. 2022, led by the…
ChatGPT launched six months ago. Its impact — and fallout — is just beginning | The AI Beat
May 30, 2023
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A mere six months ago today, OpenAI released ChatGPT.
Since then, it’s been a dizzying AI ride: The “interactive…
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Fueled by the promise of a dynamic remote interactive environment, the advent of the metaverse was seen as a turning point for the…
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