The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves

Some robots, including from Boston Dynamics, are already doing warehouse work. Do you expect to see that humanoid workforce growing in the coming years? Warehouse work is one of the great applications at the moment because there’s such a need for people. Employers are really frustrated with the difficulty of getting humans and training them … Read more

My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot

Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence was in actual fact a bit of a snowflake. Grok, built by Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company, was made available to Premium+ X users last Friday. Musk has complained that OpenAI’s ChatGPT is afflicted with “the … Read more

Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom

The history of artificial intelligence has been punctuated by periods of so-called “AI winter,” when the technology seemed to meet a dead end and funding dried up. Each one has been accompanied by proclamations that making machines truly intelligent is just too darned hard for humans to figure out. Google’s release of Gemini, claimed to … Read more

These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q* Project

There are other clues to what Q* could be. The name may be an allusion to Q-learning, a form of reinforcement learning that involves an algorithm learning to solve a problem through positive or negative feedback, which has been used to create game-playing bots and to tune ChatGPT to be more helpful. Some have suggested … Read more

World Powers Say They Want to Contain AI. They’re Also Racing to Advance It

Yesterday, 28 countries including the US, members of the EU, and China signed a declaration warning that artificial intelligence is advancing with such speed and uncertainty that it could cause “serious, even catastrophic, harm.” The declaration, announced at the AI Safety Summit organized by the British government and held at the historic World War II … Read more

Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?

When I asked the chatbot if it identifies with the monster, it responded with a familiar chatbot excuse for dodging tricky questions: “As an artificial intelligence, I don’t have personal feelings or identities, so I don’t have the capacity to identify with any characters.” Then, in a twist that Mary Shelley might have enjoyed, the … Read more

AI Is Becoming More Powerful—but Also More Secretive

Nathan Strauss, a spokesperson for Amazon said the company is closely reviewing the index. “Titan Text is still in private preview, and it would be premature to gauge the transparency of a foundation model before it’s ready for general availability,” he says. Meta declined to comment on the Stanford report and OpenAI did not respond … Read more

Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search

It may be difficult for search engines to automatically detect AI-generated text. But Microsoft could have implemented some basic safeguards, perhaps barring text drawn from chatbot transcripts from becoming a featured snippet or adding warnings that certain results or citations consist of text dreamt up by an algorithm. Griffin added a disclaimer to his blog … Read more

Sufficient Speak, ChatGPT—My New Chatbot Buddy Can Get Issues Completed

I not too long ago wanted to contact the CEO of a startup referred to as Lindy, an organization growing private assistants powered by synthetic intelligence. As an alternative of in search of it myself, I turned to an AI helper of my very own, an open supply program referred to as Auto-GPT, typing in … Read more

Folks Are More and more Fearful AI Will Make Day by day Life Worse

Over the previous 12 months or so, you’ve most likely had conversations with buddies, household, and coworkers concerning the rise of generative AI able to making convincing textual content and imagery—however maybe additionally concerning the hype and worry swirling across the expertise. A ballot out this week finds that fear over dangerous results of AI … Read more