AI agents may soon be massed to invade social media, mimicking humans and spreading false stories, bullying and harassing users, and undermining belief in democracy and free society, a 22 January commentary in Science magazine from the BI Norwegian Business School warned.
An AI price war might be in the offing, a war that could shoot holes in major AI companies’ stock valuations.
Investors have sunk the market values of AI-related companies in recent weeks, worried that the technology isn’t producing bottom-line gains for businesse
Humanoid robots are only half as efficient as humans in factory work and thus not yet able to fill any worker shortage that factories are experiencing, Michael Tam, chief brand officer for UBTech, a leading Chinese robotics designer, said in a Financial Times interview.
In a new $30-billion funding round, investments from backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Sequoia Capital have set the AI developer Anthropic’s value at $350 billion and put it on track for what is expected to be a wildly successful initial public stock offering later this year.
“Today I finally feel the existential threat that AI is posing,” Hieu Pham, an OpenAI developer, wrote in an 11 February post on X. “When AI becomes overly good and disrupts everything, what will be left for humans to do?”
The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Religious believers and their shepherds are using AI to get closer to the Almighty.
At the University of Michigan, scientists have developed an AI system that interprets MRI brain scans in seconds, accurately diagnosing a broad array of more than 50 conditions instantly and deciding how urgently a patient needs treatment.
In a further sign of AI’s gallop into the field of robotics, Chinese tech giant Alibaba has shown off its open source “RynnBrain” AI designed to help robots carry out everyday chores.