AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity (Yet)
The idea that machine intelligence will one day take over the world has long been a staple of science fiction. But given the rapid advances in consumer-level artificial intelligence tools,...
ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution
In a separate dialog, when queried in English, Bing chat correctly identified Thailand as the rumored location for the next setting of the TV show White Lotus, but provided “somewhere in...
I Asked AI Chatbots to Help Me Shop. They All Failed
Clarity of sourcing is going to be increasingly important in the future, as will creating real consequences for AI being wrong or being used to mislead consumers. The consequences for...
For Some Autistic People, ChatGPT Is a Lifeline
The chatbot’s flexibility also comes with some unaddressed problems. It can produce biased, unpredictable, and often fabricated answers, and is built in part on personal information scraped without permission, raising privacy concerns....
Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn
Leading figures in the development of artificial intelligence systems, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, have signed a statement warning that the technology they are...
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
I agree with every single one of those points, which can potentially guide us on the actual boundaries we might consider to mitigate the dark side of AI. Things like...
Where Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins
In theory, these cryptographic standards ensure that if a professional photographer snaps a photo for, say, Reuters and that photo is distributed across Reuters international news channels, both the editors commissioning...
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Microsoft director of communications Caitlin Roulston says the company is blocking suspicious websites and improving its systems to filter prompts before they get into its AI models. Roulston did not...
Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI
In the early 20th century, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung came up with the concept of the shadow—the human personality’s darker, repressed side, which can burst out in unexpected ways. Surprisingly,...
