Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, is in talks with Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japanese venture fund Softbank, to back the development of “the iPhone of artificial intelligence,” according to three people familiar who told the Financial Times.
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AI DESIGNS A WALKING ROBOT IN 26 SECONDS FROM SCRATCH
An artificial intelligence created at Northwestern University was given a simple prompt: design a robot that can walk on a flat surface.
AMAZON’S ALEXA BECOMES ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT
Alexa, Amazon’s voice-controlled assistant, has been upgraded with AI.
VC FIRMS, COMMERCE DEPARTMENT DEVELOPING AI GUIDELINES
Several venture capital firms are collaborating with the U.S. commerce department to craft “responsible AI” guidelines for themselves and the businesses they fund, according to Axios.
AI LIKELY TO HARM MORE PEOPLE THAN IT HELPS, MIT ECONOMIST WARNS
Economists tend to hold an optimistic view of technological change: yes, the people who make wagon wheels and kerosene lamps are thrown out of work, but they—and a whole lot more people—find jobs in the new technological realm, conventional economic wisdom says.
COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING SKILLS ALREADY BECOMING OBSOLETE, CEO WARNS
College students are learning skills in business and technology that AI is likely to render obsolete by the time they graduate, Chris Hyams, CEO of jobs website Indeed, warned in a Fortune essay.
AI IDENTIFIES ILLNESS-CAUSING GENE MUTATIONS
One of the hardest and most tedious tasks in genetic science is figuring out which of the countless mutations in human genes cause which illnesses.
HALF OF CEOs SAY AI COULD REPLACE THEM
Forty-nine percent of CEOs say artificial intelligence could carry out “most” or even “all” of their functions, a poll by education website edX found. The site queried 800 C-suite workers, including CEOs, and 800 workers below the executive level.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Joining sensory systems with AI is the cutting edge of where more sophisticated technology is heading.
U.K. WILL PLACE THIRD IN GLOBAL AI SWEEPSTAKES, STUDY SAYS
Britain’s AI sector will grow from £1.36 trillion (about $1.7 trillion) to £2.4 trillion ($3 trillion) by 2027, making it the world’s third-largest AI economy behind the U.S. and China, according to an analysis by the information clearinghouse Global AI Ecosystem.