Category: AI advances

“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…

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

“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…

“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…

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 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…

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…

“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…

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…

“. . . 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’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…

“. . . 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…

“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…

“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…

“. . . . 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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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,…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

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