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AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans
A parent asked a question in a private Facebook group in April 2024: Does anyone with a child who is both gifted and disabled have any experience with New York City public schools? The parent received a seemingly helpful ...
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OpenAI apologizes to Johansson, denies voice based on her
OpenAI chief Sam Altman apologized Tuesday to Scarlett Johansson after the movie star said she was "shocked" by a new synthetic voice released by the ChatGPT-maker, but he insisted the voice was not based on hers.
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Seoul AI summit opens with companies including Google, Meta, OpenAI pledging to develop AI safely
The world's leading artificial intelligence companies pledged at the start of a mini summit on AI to develop the technology safely, including pulling the plug if they can't rein in the most extreme risks.
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Two types of LLMs found able to equal or outperform humans on theory of mind tests
An international team of psychologists and neurobiologists has found via experimentation that two types of LLMs are able to equal or outperform humans on theory of mind tests. In their study reported in the journal Nature ...
Machine learning method generates circuit synthesis for quantum computing
Researchers from the University of Innsbruck have unveiled a novel method to prepare quantum operations on a given quantum computer, using a machine learning generative model to find the appropriate sequence of quantum gates ...
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Sanofi allies with OpenAI, Formation Bio for AI use in drug development
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi announced Tuesday a partnership with ChatGPT-founder OpenAI and US biotech firm Formation Bio to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in developing drugs.
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16 top AI firms make new safety commitments at Seoul summit
More than a dozen of the world's leading artificial intelligence firms made fresh safety commitments at a global summit in Seoul on Tuesday, the British government said in a statement.
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Tackling long-range malware detection tasks using holographic global convolutional networks
Over the past few decades, cyber-attackers have devised increasingly sophisticated malware that can disrupt the functioning of computer systems or grant them access to sensitive data. The development of techniques that can ...
AI trained to draw inspiration from images, not copy them
Powerful new artificial intelligence models sometimes, quite famously, get things wrong—whether hallucinating false information or memorizing others' work and offering it up as their own. To address the latter, researchers ...
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Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on a PC
Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you're doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.
Consumer & Gadgets
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Microsoft unveils 'AI-ready' PCs
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a new category of PC on Monday that features generative artificial intelligence tools built directly into Windows, the company's world leading operating system.
Consumer & Gadgets
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World leaders still need to wake up to AI risks, say leading experts ahead of AI Safety Summit
Leading AI scientists are calling for stronger action on AI risks from world leaders, warning that progress has been insufficient since the first AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park six months ago.
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Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is 'eerily similar' to hers and OpenAI is halting its use
OpenAI on Monday said it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices that "Her" actor Scarlett Johansson says sounds "eerily similar" to her own.
Business
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What Google AI means for you—and your search results
Google recently unveiled plans to integrate its search engine with artificial intelligence (AI).
Internet
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AI chips could get a sense of time with memristor that can be tuned
Artificial neural networks may soon be able to process time-dependent information, such as audio and video data, more efficiently. The first memristor with a "relaxation time" that can be tuned is reported today in Nature ...
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The 'dead internet theory' makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister
If you search "shrimp Jesus" on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in various forms with a stereotypical image of Jesus Christ.
Internet
May 20, 2024
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South Korea, Britain host AI summit with safety top of agenda
South Korea and Britain kick off a major international summit on artificial intelligence in Seoul this week, where governments plan to press tech firms on AI safety.
Machine learning & AI
May 20, 2024
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ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behavior
Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o ("o" for "omni"), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more natural engagement with AI. ...
Machine learning & AI
May 19, 2024
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Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?
Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines?
Internet
May 19, 2024
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OpenAI disbands team devoted to artificial intelligence risks
OpenAI on Friday confirmed that it has disbanded a team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of super-smart artificial intelligence.
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