The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient
What applies to patents should also apply to copyright, he says. If, for example, an AI is asked to write “the best pop song in history,” and does so, it...
Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s Answer to OpenAI
The interest Aleph Alpha has received so far—the company claims 10,000 customers across both business and government—shows it is able to compete, or at least coexist, with the emerging giants...
Nervous About ChatGPT? Try ChatGPT With a Hammer
Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released, researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to...
It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration. Each prompted a curt but well-crafted rebuttal...
How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth
For researchers and conservationists alike, the potential applications of machine learning are basically limitless. And Earth Species is not the only group working on decoding animal communication. Payne spent the...
Sexy AI Chatbots Are Creating Thorny Issues for Fandom
But despite the removal of what many feel to be both a core capability and function of any internet chatbot, large numbers of people continue to talk to the “characters”...
AI Can’t Read Books. It’s Reviewing Them Anyway
Now that we’ve all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. Yes, they can write. But their prose doesn’t explode in the mind like the...
Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
Cloud computing providers are very aware that their customers are struggling for capacity. Surging demand has “caught the industry off guard a bit,” says Chetan Kapoor, a director of product...
You Are Not Responsible for Your Own Online Privacy
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg told the audience at a TechCrunch awards ceremony that young people—especially social media users—no longer cared about privacy. “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing...
