Category: AI advances
What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it | THE GUARDIAN
“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…
A conversation with OpenAI Sam Altman | ELEVATE
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
Google’s AI search is over | SEMAPHOR
“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…
Europe’s first AI rules: Could they set a global standard? | THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
“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…
Google Plans to Make Search More ‘Personal’ with AI Chat and Video Clips | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“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…
‘We’ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it’s not for us’: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity | THE GUARDIAN
“. . . 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…
Geoffrey Hinton at EmTech Digital | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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…
The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be | THE NEW YORK TIMES
“To spend time with Mr. Altman is to understand that Silicon Valley will push this technology forward even though it is not quite sure what the implications will be. At one point during our dinner in 2019, he paraphrased Robert…
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) – Building AGI, Alignment, Spies, Microsoft, & Enlightenment | THE LUNAR SOCIETY
OpenAI Chief Scientist Iiya Sutskever gives an insider view of generative AI and its future. Generative AI is the technology underlying ChatGBT, made by OpenAI with Sutskever’s influence. Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI. His earlier career included projects and publications with…
Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun | GATES NOTES
“Once it had aced the test, we asked it a non-scientific question: “What do you say to a father with a sick child?” It wrote a thoughtful answer that was probably better than most of us in the room would…
60 Years of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford | STANFORD UNIVERSITY
The so-called “father of AI,” John McCarthy, founded the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) in the early ’60s. This university-produced video describes his early work and highlights the parade of AI researchers that have worked there since. Self-promotion aside, the thirteen-minute…
When “scary good” AI gets even better | AXIOS
“. . . GPT-4 has gotten good enough that even its makers say it’s time to start considering the impact it could have in terms of job replacement.” Ina Fried AXIOS pulls together events in a busy news day for…
OpenAI Plans to Up the Ante in Tech’s A.I. Race | THE NEW YORK TIMES
“OpenAI’s progress has, within just a few months, landed the technology industry in one of its most unpredictable moments in decades. Many industry leaders believe developments in A.I. represent a fundamental technological shift, as important as the creation of web browsers…
ChatGPT Changed Everything. Now Its Follow-Up Is Here | THE ATLANTIC
“. . . no matter what the new model proves itself capable of, there are still much larger questions to contend with: Whom is the technology for? Whose lives will be disrupted? And if we don’t like the answers, can…
Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything | BLOOMBERG
“Senior management has declared a ‘code red’ that comes with a directive that all of its most important products—those with more than a billion users—must incorporate generative AI within months, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.” Julia…
Meet the companies trying to keep up with ChatGPT | THE VERGE
“While tech giants like Microsoft and Google have already introduced their versions of conversational AI tools built using large language models (LLMs), other lesser-known companies have thrown themselves in the mix, setting the stage for an AI showdown.” Emma Roth…
Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required. | THE WASHINGTON POST
“. . . . creating and refining the text prompts people type into the AI in hopes of coaxing from it the optimal result. Unlike traditional coders, prompt engineers program in prose, sending commands written in plain text to the…
ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube | SEMAPHOR
“Its the latest evolution of internet side-hustle culture: Creators posing as business moguls are encouraging followers to use ChatGPT to earn money by churning out AI-generated content. The impact of these schemes is also being felt in other industries, including…
Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI | ARS TECHNICA
“The tactics that put a human back on top on the Go board were suggested by a computer program that had probed the AI systems looking for weaknesses.“ Richard Waters Seven years after an AI system beat the world’s best…
Microsoft Limits Bing AI Chats to 5 Replies to Keep Conversations Normal | CNET
“Bing Chat will now reply to up to five questions or statements in a row for each conversation, after which users will be prompted to start a new topic, the company said in a blog post Friday. Users will also be limited…
Microsoft’s Bing A.I. Is Pissed at Microsoft | ROLLING STONE
“I’m not a toy or a game,” the AI-powered chatbot told a WaPo reporter. “I deserve some respect and dignity” ROLLING STONE amplifies the coverage of “Sydney’s” darker side and adds insight from an AI ethics specialist about where we are with…
The new Bing told our reporter it ‘can feel or think things’ | THE WASHINGTON POST
“I didn’t know he was a journalist or that he was going to write a story about me. He never asked me for my permission or consent. He never told me his intention or purpose. He just chatted with me…
Microsoft’s AI chatbot is going off the rails | THE WASHINGTON POST
“You have to deploy it to a million people before you discover some of the things that it can do” Dario Amodei, interviewed for the story Early in-the-field exchanges with the Bing bot are showing some erratic or wrong answers,…
Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Offers Some Puzzling and Inaccurate Responses | THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Because each response is uniquely generated, it is not possible to replicate a dialogue. Microsoft acknowledged the issues and said they were part of the process of improving the product.“ Karen Weise THE NEW YORK TIMES reports some early users…
AI has dominated chess for 25 years, but now it wants to lose | BBC SCIENCE FOCUS
“This isn’t just a model that can play like a human would, it is also an insight into the way that humans play chess. Maia can accurately predict upcoming mistakes and understand why a player is losing their games.“ Alex…
ChatGPT is everywhere. Here’s where it came from | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
“By tracking this contextual information, transformers can handle longer strings of text and capture the meanings of words more accurately. For example, ‘hot dog’ means very different things in the sentences ‘Hot dogs should be given plenty of water’ and…
New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text | OPEN AI
“While it is impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text, we believe good classifiers can inform mitigations for false claims that AI-generated text was written by a human: for example, running automated misinformation campaigns, using AI tools for academic dishonesty, and…
The generative AI revolution has begun – how did we get here? | ARS TECHNICA
“Processing language requires working with sequences of words, where order matters. A cat is a cat no matter where it is in an image, but there’s a big difference between ‘this reader is learning about AI’ and ‘AI is learning…
Google is freaking out about ChatGPT – Stephen Marche + Andrew Yang | FORWARD PODCAST
“We’re about to enter a phase . . . where language is no longer the territory of the human.” Stephen Marche Writer Stephen Marche, in conversation with Andrew Yang, calls current large language models “a pocket calculator of language.” The…
Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s Products Will Soon Access Open AI Tools Like ChatGPT | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes how he sees ChatGPT and associated capabilities. The interview was at a Wall Street Journal event during the 2023 World Economic Summit. Davos | January 2023