Manonallard | E+ | Getty Images For many Americans, it’s the first holiday season when most of the family may know the term “artificial intelligence” if it comes up during Christmas dinner. Just don’t expect AI to do the heavy lifting for Santa quite yet. The rise of generative AI — and the use of … Read more
The lawmakers’ letter also claims that NIST is being rushed to define standards even though research into testing AI systems is at an early stage. As a result there is “significant disagreement” among AI experts over how to work on or even measure and define safety issues with the technology, it states. “The current state … Read more
At a quiet cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son. They are words that the late student never spoke, but brought into being with artificial intelligence. “I know you’re in great pain every day because of me, and … Read more
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, unveiled a framework to protect against the “catastrophic risks” posed by the rapidly developing technology. “The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be,” OpenAI said in a Monday news release. “To … Read more
Google plans to restrict the types of election-related questions its generative artificial intelligence (AI) products, including the AI-powered chatbot Bard, will return responses to ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The tech giant will begin restricting responses to such queries early next year “out of an abundance of caution on such an important topic,” it … Read more
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
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 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
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
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
