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?”
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SAM ALTMAN: ANOTHER CONFLICTED TRANSHUMANIST
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.
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AI STOCK SURGE SPARKS FEARS OF A BUBBLE IN ASIAN MARKETS
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.
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REDISCOVERING PURPOSE IN THE AGE OF AI
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.
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CHINA WILL WIN AI RACE, NVIDIA BOSS SAYS
“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.
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DO AI MODELS HAVE A DRIVE TO SURVIVE?
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.
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AI GENERAL INTELLIGENCE IS ALREADY HERE, INDUSTRY PIONEERS SAY
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.
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WHY AI IS CREATIVE WITH ITS IMAGES
AI models should generate images the way they generate text: by copying patterns on which they were trained.
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GOVERNMENTS UNDERWRITE ENERGY COSTS FOR CHINA’S AI INDUSTRY
As China’s government showers money on AI developers and chip designers, local authorities are offering grants to pay as much as half the energy cost of the industry’s data centers.
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CHATGPT ENLISTS PAYPAL
ChatGPT allows its users to browse and buy items without leaving its website. Now shoppers can pay instantly there as well by using Paypal.