Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups ‘Benefiting Humanity’

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup to give itself an unusual corporate structure that, on paper, prioritizes the public good alongside its profits, following in the footsteps of OpenAI and Anthropic. … Read more

How to Check If Something Online Was Written by AI

Generative artificial intelligence is everywhere you look these days, including on the web: advanced predictive text bots such as ChatGPT can now spew out endless reams of text on every topic imaginable and make all this written content natural enough that it could plausibly have been written by a human being. Zillow Says You’ll Buy … Read more

AI’s World-Ending Capabilities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Text and image generators have decidedly gone mainstream music generators haven’t gotten as much attention. Microsoft hopes to change that. This week, the company partnered with AI startup Suno to incorporate a music-generating plug-in with Copilot. Is it good? As far as apps that turn text prompts into a believable-sounding song, it’s impressive. Listen to … Read more

The EU AI Act Lets Governments AI Surveillance Run Wild

By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current form, the law would go … Read more

Ilya Sutskever’s OpenAI Team Built Tools to Control Superhuman AI

A new research paper out of OpenAI Thursday says a superhuman AI is coming, and the company is developing tools to ensure it doesn’t turn against humans. OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever is listed as a lead author on the paper, but not the blog post that went with it, and his role at the … Read more

Grok Gets Some Competition, ChatGPT Gets Depressed, and More of the Top AI News Stories This Week

Image: Maurice NORBERT (Shutterstock) What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry—is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations’ relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if … Read more

Should Section 230 Protect AI Companies From Being Sued Out of Existence?

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI Unlocked This week, there’ve been rumblings that a bipartisan bill that would ban AI platforms from protection under Section 230 is getting fast-tracked. The landmark internet law protects … Read more

Our First Test of Meta’s AI Image Generator Was a Flop

Screenshot: Meta Meta released a standalone AI image generator on Wednesday that will convert your text-based queries into fantastical, high-resolution images in mere seconds. The free tool, Imagine with Meta AI, is powered by Emu, the company’s image foundation model. “Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked Meta rolled out this product … Read more

Sam Altman’s Return, the Mysterious Q, and More Top AI News of the Week

Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal that every company in Silicon Valley is currently racing to achieve. AGI refers to a hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be able to do most of the jobs that humans currently … Read more

Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They’re All Pretty Stupid

There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal that every company in Silicon Valley is currently racing to achieve. AGI refers to a hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be able to do most of the jobs that humans currently do. According to this theory … Read more