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,...
Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working
Despite their enormous size and power, today’s artificial intelligence systems routinely fail to distinguish between hallucination and reality. Autonomous driving systems can fail to perceive pedestrians and emergency vehicles right...
Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of human tasks, including opening...
Using AI, scientists find a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections
Using an artificial intelligence algorithm, researchers at MIT and McMaster University have identified a new antibiotic that can kill a type of bacteria that is responsible for many drug-resistant infections....
Google Research at I/O 2023
Posted by James Manyika, SVP Google Research and Technology & Society, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research Wednesday, May 10th was an exciting day for the...
Modernizing the automotive industry: Creating a seamless customer experience
The automotive industry is rapidly changing as connected and autonomous vehicles — enabled by AI and machine learning — are transforming transportation to create a seamless and personalized customer experience....
OpenAI could ‘cease operating’ in Europe over AI laws: Altman
OpenAI boss Sam Altman said that his artificial intelligence-powered company could “cease operating” in the European Union if it’s unable to comply with the EU’s AI laws. Speaking to reporters...
AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’
Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world. Source
‘Works for every single job’
She swears this hack works. Hanna Goefft, an NYC creator whose TikTok content highlights job opportunities and employment advice, is encouraging viewers to use ChatGPT to prepare for interviews. In...
‘There’s a non-zero chance’ of AI wiping out humanity
Billionaire Elon Musk and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt are stepping up warnings about their concerns that rogue advanced artificial intelligence could one day have deadly consequences for humanity. Schmidt argued...
Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to Be Bored
Here’s the thing about podcasts: There are too many of them. More than 4 million, to be precise, according to the database Podcast Index. In the past three days alone, nearly...
Chipotle founder Steve Ells eyes fast-food comeback with startup Kernel
Chipotle founder and ex-CEO Steve Ells is plotting a return to the fast-food scene — with a plant-based, robot-powered chain whose restaurants could operate with as few as three employees,...
Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers | WIRED
The excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the queue that snaked its way around the University College London building ahead of his speech on...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta starts final round of layoffs
Meta Platforms started carrying out the last batch of a three-part round of layoffs on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, as part of a plan announced in March to...
Generative AI Systems Aren’t Just Open or Closed Source
Recently, a leaked document, allegedly from Google, claimed that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI. The leak brought to the fore ongoing conversations in the AI community about how...
