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...
A more effective way to train machines for uncertain, real-world situations
Someone learning to play tennis might hire a teacher to help them learn faster. Because this teacher is (hopefully) a great tennis player, there are times when trying to exactly...
New tool helps people choose the right method for evaluating AI models
When machine-learning models are deployed in real-world situations, perhaps to flag potential disease in X-rays for a radiologist to review, human users need to know when to trust the model’s...
Mark Zuckerberg marks Memorial Day with Murph Challenge
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg marked Memorial Day by doing “the Murph Challenge” — a grueling workout that included 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, and a mile-long run,...
AI experts warn of ‘risk of extinction’ similar to nuclear weapons
A group of top artificial intelligence experts and executives warned the technology poses a “risk of extinction” in an alarming joint statement released Tuesday. OpenAI boss Sam Altman, whose firm...
Elon Musk kicks off China visit, Tesla expansion in focus
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday kicked off a high-stakes visit to China with a meeting with the country’s foreign minister in Beijing, marking his return to the electric carmaker’s largest production hub after...
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....
Nvidia hits $1T in market value on booming ChatGPT, AI demand
Nvidia on Tuesday became the first chipmaker to join the trillion-dollar club, as the company bets on a surge in demand for its AI chips that power chatbot sensation ChatGPT and...
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...
How to talk about AI (even if you don’t know much about AI)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Everyone is talking about AI, it seems....
China launches Shenzhou-16 mission to Chinese space station
China sent three astronauts to its now fully operational space station as part of crew rotation on Tuesday in the fifth manned mission to the Chinese space outpost since 2021,...
China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, another step in what looks like a new space race
China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, which would be another advance in what’s increasingly seen as a new space race. The US aims to put astronauts...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope, observatory release space images
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope have joined forces to produce stunning composite images of the cosmos. The space agency recently released images that combine X-ray data with infrared...
Chinese influencer dies after binge drinking on livestream
A Chinese content creator died last week after livestreaming himself consuming an excessive amount of exceptionally strong alcohol. The 34-year-old influencer, who goes by “Sanqiange,” was found dead 12 hours...
Foundation models for reasoning on charts
Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, Research Software Engineer, Google Research Visual language is the form of communication that relies on pictorial symbols outside of text to convey information. It is ubiquitous...
