Sundar Pichai on Google’s AI, Microsoft’s AI, OpenAI, and … Did We Mention AI?
We’re talking about AI in a very nuts-and-bolts way, but a lot of the discussion centers on whether it will ultimately be a utopian boon or the end of humanity....
AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
The United States Environmental Protection Agency blocked its employees from accessing ChatGPT while the US State Department staff in Guinea used it to draft speeches and social media posts. Maine...
System combines light and electrons to unlock faster, greener computing
Computing is at an inflection point. Moore’s Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on an electronic chip will double each year, is slowing down due to the physical...
These Prisoners Are Training AI
Across a sterile white table in a windowless room, I’m introduced to a woman in her forties. She has a square jaw and blonde hair that has been pulled back...
8 ways to keep someone you know who lives alone protected
Caring for a loved one who values their independence and prefers to live alone can be challenging. You may feel anxious about their well-being when you are not around and hope that...
Making life friendlier with personal robots
“As a child, I wished for a robot that would explain others’ emotions to me” says Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group (PRG). Growing...
Senators Want ChatGPT-Level AI to Require a Government License
The US government should create a new body to regulate artificial intelligence—and restrict work on language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to companies granted licenses to do so. That’s the recommendation...
AT&T debuts AI hologram of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
The fascination with artificial intelligence has hit Dallas, where everything is bigger, as they say. And it’s doing so with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The team unveiled a hologram of...
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson says AI ‘rubbish in, rubbish out’
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson blasted the left-wing bias and inaccuracies spewed out by AI generated content — calling it “rubbish in, rubbish out” — even as he warned the...
