The New York Times, long known as the U.S.’s “newspaper of record,” has surrendered to the economic realities of newspapering in the 21st century: bots can help the bottom line by doing work that reporters used to do.
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ENGINEERS ARE TRANSFORMING AIs FROM ASSISTANTS INTO AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
ChatGPT’s most popular uses so far are as an artist, assistant, brainstorming partner, and researcher. However, when engineers at Nvidia, the company making specialized AI chips, opened the hood and began tinkering with its engine, they found a much more sophisticated and capable entity than they had expected.
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READY FOR A CRADLE TO GRAVE “AI COPILOT”?
In connection with an Orwellian named “AI Global Safety Summit” held this past week in the U.K., thousands of AI industry workers and experts have signed onto a letter arguing that AI is destined to become a “force for good” in the world, and not disaster.
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MORE TECH CORPS PROMISE TO USE THEIR MEGABILLIONS TO DEFEND THEIR AI IP INFRINGEMENT
Google has now joined Microsoft and Adobe in guaranteeing users of its AI platforms and services that the tech corporation will assume liability for any claims of Intellectual Property (IP) infringement.
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CLEARVIEW AI FOILS BRITISH JUSTICE
Clearview AI harvested millions of photos from the Internet to create a facial recognition AI now used by thousands of U.S. law enforcement agencies.
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UNIVERSAL MUSIC SUES ANTHROPIC
In the latest face-off between AI and intellectual property, a coalition of music recording and publishing companies has sued young AI company Anthropic for $75 million.
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AI-MADE IMAGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY COULD FLOOD THE INTERNET, FOUNDATION WARNS
Images of child sexual abuse already are rife on the dark web and the problem could explode now that AI has the power to create deepfake images, the U.K.’s Internet Watch Foundation has warned.
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AI “GUARDRAILS” WEAKER THAN THOUGHT, STUDY FINDS
In developing their artificial intelligence systems, Google, OpenAI, and other creators installed so-called guardrails that would keep their AIs from disseminating hate speech or disinformation and committing similarly unacceptable acts.
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OPEN SOURCE OR CLOSED? THE AI DEBATE HEATS UP.
The Allen Institute for AI is building its own AI as an alternative to that of OpenAI or Google.
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GET READY FOR THE TERM “AI DENIER”
We’re hurtling toward a future where political representatives, as well as average citizens, will be subjected to ridicule and pressure when they espouse policies or opinions that run counter to an “AI consensus.”