AI & Robotics

Twenty-one AI leaders will appear tomorrow at the 2nd Senate AI Insight Forum. The event comes over a month after what was supposed to be the first of nine forums in which all 100 senators have the opportunity to get a crash course on a variety of issues related to AI, including copyright, workforce issues, national security, high risk AI models, existential risks, privacy, transparency and…

Like many longtime technologists, I am deeply worried about the dangers of AI, both for its near-term risk to society and its long-term threat to humanity. Back in 2016 I put a date on my greatest concerns, warning that we could achieve Artificial Superintelligence by 2030 and Sentient Superintelligence soon thereafter. My words got attention back then, but often for the wrong reasons — with…

Oracle just made another move to simplify AI development and deployment for its customers. This week, the Larry Ellison-founded company announced it is bringing Nvidia AI stack to its marketplace. The move gives Oracle customers access to the most sought after, top-of-the-line GPUs for training foundation models and building generative applications. Under the partnership, the company said it is…

The computing interfaces of the not-too-distant future might move beyond touchscreens and keyboards — even past eyes and hand gestures, to the inside of our own minds. Society is not quite there yet, but we are moving closer. Researchers at Meta Platforms, Inc., parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus VR, today announced Image Decoder, a new deep learning application based on Meta’s…