“He is arguing that the benefits of developing “superintelligence” – an AGI turned up to 11, capable of solving problems humanity has been unable to crack – are so great that we should risk the destruction of everything to try…

“Realness will have a premium. It’s going to be even more important to have trusted brands.” Nick Thompson, The Atlantic The UK’s PressGazette canvasses for opinions about generative AI from: SEE FULL ARTICLE ChatGPT six months on: Insight from 12…

“FT journalism in the new AI age will continue to be reported and written by humans who are the best in their fields and who are dedicated to reporting on and analysing the world as it is, accurately and fairly.”…

“For us in journalism there are many potential uses and some very obvious dangers. It’s an opportunity and a potential threat and it’s happening whether we like it or not, and so very fast.” Lenore Taylor These are remarks edited…

Shopify founder and CEO Tobias Lütke interviews OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in a wide-ranging conversation. The event was hosted by Elevate, a Canadian non-profit that promotes exchanges between innovators. SEE FULL VIDEO Toronto | May 2023

“It started with the theft of a large chunk of human knowledge. Large language models such as ChatGPT have ingested much of the internet, all of Wikipedia and all of the US patent database. Soon it will be much of…

“. . .exploring the possibilities afforded by the new generation of tools is not optional – though we are still examining how to make most appropriate use of them. “ Reuters memo An internal memo posted by TBN details Reuters‘ thinking…

“It has also underlined one of the challenges raised by generative AI for news organisations. We, like others, will learn and adapt.” Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, editor of Irish Times The Guardian reports on an incident involving Irish Times and a…

“Alphabet wasn’t going to fix what wasn’t broken until it was forced by a fundamental change in the market.” Reed Albergotti New AI models are being integrated into Google products, enabling users to create images from text and generate content…

“The EU’s AI Act could become the de facto global standard for artificial intelligence, with companies and organizations potentially deciding that the sheer size of the bloc’s single market would make it easier to comply than develop different products for…

“We aim to hire someone with a profound appreciation of both the potential benefits and unintended harms resulting from chatbots, robots, online search, voice assistants, facial recognition, fraud detection, crime prevention and the gamut of other AI applications.” Bloomberg Job…

“Google plans to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, according to the documents.” Miles Kruppa The Wall Street Journal reports Google will revamp its search engine to include…

“. . . my confidence that this wasn’t coming for quite a while has been shaken by the realisation that biological intelligence and digital intelligence are very different, and digital intelligence is probably much better.” Geoffrey Hinton Neural network pioneer…

“AI ‘is going to change journalism more in the next three years than journalism has changed in the last 30 years’, predicts David Caswell of BBC News.” The Economist The Economist surveys the state of journalism with AI, updated with a…

In his own words, the “Godfather of AI” describes his change of heart about the technology he helped create. Many leading figures in current AI research are former students of Geoffrey Hinton, and his life’s work has produced foundational advances…

“To be explicitly clear, we do not blindly copy and paste what tools like ChatGPT generate, nor do we let AI write entire stories. Instead, we will use AI to inspire and strengthen our work — overcoming writer’s block, improving our…

“Some are dressed up as breaking news sites with generic-sounding names like News Live 79 and Daily Business Post, while others share lifestyle tips, celebrity news or publish sponsored content.” Davey Alba The U.S. journalism watchdog, NewsGuard, has identified multiple websites…

“Nuñez said VentureBeat is encouraging reporters to use the powerful AI tools that are currently available, and doesn’t attribute an article with “sentences and fragments” from a chatbot “as long as it’s truthful” and independently verified. ‘I don’t think our…

“They are trained by going through mountains of internet text, repeatedly guessing the next few letters and then grading themselves against the real thing.” Aatish Bhatia This interactive explainer from The New York Times shows how large languages models construct words,…

Four leading journalism thinkers discuss the implications of AI systems for journalists and journalism. The panel is moderated by Charlie Beckett, Professor at the London School of Economics and head of the journalism & Ai project within POLIS, LSE’s journalism…

“The conversation has rapidly evolved over the past six months as these new chatbots are so much more user-friendly than previous versions, increasing the possibilities of using them on a day-to-day basis.” Charlotte Tobitt PressGazette surveys how news organizations are…

IBM’s Phaedra Boinodiris warns of multiple shortcomings in current large language models (LLMs). Boinodiris is the Consulting Global Leader for Trustworthy AI at IBM.

“The company will set up a working group first to test ways to responsibly incorporate AI into its workflow before rolling out a set of AI rules and best practices to the broader newsroom..” Sara Fischer AXIOS talks with Insider’s…

“Abdullah Boftain, deputy editor-in-chief for Kuwait News, told AFP news agency the move tested AI’s potential to offer ‘new and innovative content”‘” Antoinette Radford The latest AI news presenter has debuted in Kuwait. Named “Fedha,” the AI figure was announced…

This panel considers the possibilities, uses, and pitfalls of using AI systems in newsrooms. It is moderated by Felix M. Simon, of the Oxford Internet Institute. The panellists: SEE VIDEOApril 2023

“Experts fear the technology could hasten an erosion of trust in media, in government and in society. If any image can be manufactured — and manipulated — how can we believe anything we see?” Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers…

“. . . the question for responsible news organisations is simple, and urgent: what can this technology do right now, and how can it benefit responsible reporting at a time when the wider information ecosystem is already under pressure from…

“…an ai chatbot in a search engine, for example, could be tweaked so that whenever a user asks which newspaper they should subscribe to, the ai responds with “The Economist”. That might not sound so bad, but similar attacks could also cause an ai to spout…

“Interview responses from local practitioners showed that, while most perceive the relevance of automated journalism to local news reporting as less important than human reporter contributions, they paradoxically report a shift in their practices towards greater use of automated journalism….

“A corpus of all of the world’s premium English-language business reporting — plus the universe of financial data, structured and otherwise, that underpins it — is just the sort of rich vein of information a generative AI is designed to…