“Even if the AI boom turns out to be an AI bubble, the LLMs aren’t going anywhere,” the Guardian’s UK technology editor, Alex Hern, tells Michael Safi. “Whether or not OpenAI goes bust, whether or not Google and Microsoft’s valuations plummet back to the ground, there is this technology that was created. They may go … Read more
You can read more from Alex Hern, the Guardian’s UK tech editor, by signing up to his newsletter TechScape. The AI Does Not Hate You and The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Tom Chivers are available right now. If you’d like to support projects like this, consider becoming a supporter of the Guardian – … Read more
Its hardly surprising, then, that AI also has a strong impact on our legal systems. (Representational) We’ve seen deepfake, explicit images of celebrities, created by artificial intelligence (AI). AI has also played a hand in creating music, driverless race cars and spreading misinformation, among other things. It’s hardly surprising, then, that AI also has a … Read more
When Eugenia Kuyda created Replika, the AI companion app, she had no idea it would be downloaded millions of times all around the world. The results were more powerful than she could ever have predicted. But so was the backlash Thanks to Kate Devlin at King’s College London for sharing her expertise for this episode. … Read more
Ilya Sutskever, one of the leading AI scientists behind ChatGPT, reflects on his founding vision and values. In conversations with the film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei as he was developing the chat language model between 2016 and 2019, he describes his personal philosophy and makes startling predictions for a technology already shaping our world. Reflecting on his … Read more
