A new AI large language model (LLM) the developers have named “Dragon Hatchling” is a possible next step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), where AIs can outperform humans in virtually every intellectual pursuit, according to scientists at Pathway, the startup that designed it.
OpenAI, which has yet to turn a profit, has signed a $38-billion contract to buy cloud computing time from Amazon Web Services. The contract will extend for the next seven years and includes access to Nvidia’s advanced chips.
At this month’s Future of AI Summit, “father of the Internet” Tim Berners-Lee explained how AI will kill the business model that Google and other search engines are based on—and perhaps the current foundation of the advertising industry itself.
In the top echelons of academia, intellectuals and experts are now asking the question concerning effects on humans of generative AI: “Is AI dulling our minds?”
The same person who unleashed sophisticated generative AI on the world in late 2022, is backing a San Francisco start-up bent on gene-editing human embryos.
Just six companies deeply involved in the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have driven half the gains in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng stock index this year, according to calculations by the Financial Times.
There are moments in every age when humanity pauses, looks at its own inventions, and wonders whether it has gone too far. We stand in such a moment now.
“China is going to win the AI race,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, the world’s leading AI chip maker, said last week in a Financial Times interview during the news service’s Future of AI Summit in London.
Some AI models refuse to shut themselves off even when they’re told to do so in no uncertain terms, according to a new study by nonprofit Palisades Research, a firm studying AI safety and whether people can control it.
ChatGPT and its rivals are “generative” AI, responding to requests and instructions by matching patterns they find on the Internet, a high-tech version of monkey-see, monkey-do.