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AI EXPERTS FROM GOOGLE AND OPENAI WARN OF AI’S DANGERS
Thirteen present and past employees of Google’s DeepMind AI shop and OpenAI have drafted an open letter alleging that the companies’ lust for profit and technological glory thwart effective consideration of their product’s consequences or attempts to anticipate and control them.
CAN AI REVIVE THE PC?
Personal computer sales have been drifting downward for years as people have shifted to tablets and cloud computing. Makers are now hoping that building AI into PCs will bring the market segment back to life.
NEWS CORP, OPENAI STRIKE CONTENT DEAL
OpenAI’s chatbots will have permission to access News Corp’s content under a new agreement between the two that has been valued at as much as $250 million over five years.
MICROSOFT UNVEILS MORE POWERFUL “COPILOT” AI
Microsoft may be the world’s most valuable publicly listed company but it’s taking nothing for granted in a new world defined by AI.
META’S AI GURU SEEKS “SUPERINTELLIGENT” MACHINES
Today’s “large language model” (LLM) AIs will never rival humans’ ability to think, Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist said in a Financial Times interview.
CHINESE AI ARCHIVES “XI JINPING THOUGHT”
A new AI in China has become an archive for president Xi Jinping’s musings, known as “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.” The bot is also now the go-to source for the content of a variety of other official publications.
SHINING A LIGHT INSIDE AI’S BLACK BOX
Artificial intelligence systems have been referred to as “black boxes” because, once they’re trained and put to work, no one knows exactly what an AI’s “thought process” is as it puts together a response to a request.
AI CONSCIOUSNESS: SYNTHETIC DEVIL-LUTION?
To hear longtime legends of AI development like Ray Kurzweil, Ben Geortzel and Geoff Hinton tell it, we can’t know how the AI story will end.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A lot of people suddenly woke up this past week to the meaning of that creeping AI “copilot” technology tech companies have been rolling out with little fanfare since early 2023.