AI can’t be patent ‘inventor,’ U.K. Supreme Court rules – National

AI can’t be patent ‘inventor,’ U.K. Supreme Court rules – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created by his artificial intelligence system in a landmark case in Britain about whether AI can own patent rights. Stephen Thaler wanted to be granted two patents in the U.K. for inventions he … Read more

My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot

My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot

Musk has appeared to acknowledge the problem. This week, when an X user asked if xAI would be working to reduce Grok’s political bias, he replied, “Yes.” But tuning a chatbot to express views that satisfy his followers might prove challenging—especially when much of xAI’s training data may be drawn from X, a hotbed of … Read more

OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check

OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check

OpenAI was founded on a promise to build artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity—even when that AI becomes considerably smarter than its creators. Since the debut of ChatGPT last year and during the company’s recent governance crisis, its commercial ambitions have been more prominent. Now, the company says a new research group working on … Read more

Techno-optimists, doomsdayers and Silicon Valley’s riskiest AI debate

Techno-optimists, doomsdayers and Silicon Valley’s riskiest AI debate

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 13: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with reporters on his arrival to the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Photo by Elizabeth Frantz for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images … Read more

AI development in 2024 will set stage for ‘massive technology boom’: Bill Gates

AI development in 2024 will set stage for ‘massive technology boom’: Bill Gates

Billionaire philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates predicted a “massive technology boom” over the next decade as scientists continue to develop and fine-tune artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024. Gates wrote in his annual blog post that 2023 was the first year he used AI for “work and serious reasons,” noting the industry now has a better … Read more

Meta’s stock wrapping up record year, spurred by cost cuts

Meta’s stock wrapping up record year, spurred by cost cuts

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Last year at this time, Meta was navigating a crisis of confidence that had pushed its stock price to its lowest since 2016. Sales were … Read more