Bioscientist Kevin Esvelt at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked students to use Chat GPT, Google’s Bard, or any similar “large language model” AI to find a virus capable of launching a global pandemic and help them gather the elements needed to manufacture it.
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligences (AI) will add as much as $4.4 trillion a year to the global economy, according to a new study from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Is Amazon looking to dominate the bookselling space even more than it does already, by deploying AI to generate fiction and nonfiction content?
A quartet of stories this past week showed that governments and corporate allies are only stepping up weaponization of claims of “misinformation” and “disinformation” against their own citizens, to neutralize opposition to their objectives.
Researchers at technical universities in the Netherlands and Switzerland asked ChatGPT to name the greatest challenges that must be overcome in prolonging the survival of the human species.
Forty-two percent of corporate chiefs surveyed at Yale University’s CEO Summit last week said AI has the potential to wipe out the human race within ten years.
In the days before AI, biochemists would design the ideal molecule to treat an illness or chronic condition, then try to figure out how to make it—a process called “retrosynthesis” that could take years of tinkering and testing before human clinical trials even began.
On 9 June, more than 300 believers at a Lutheran religious conference in Germany packed the pews to take part in what was billed as the world’s first church service designed and presented by an artificial intelligence.
By the year 2100, there will be less humans on earth than there are today, and exponentially more AI machines.
Those AIs will use far more energy, and far more of virtually every other crucial resource, in one capacity or another, than humans.
While other governments are deliberating how best to regulate AI, China’s leaders are already at work shutting down websites and arresting suspects.