Women in AI: Sandra Watcher, professor of data ethics at Oxford

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. … Read more

Oxford University Press has named ‘rizz’ as its word of the year

Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year to highlight the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person ByThe Associated Press December 4, 2023, 5:36 AM FILE – An Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated … Read more

There’s big risk in not knowing what OpenAI is building in the cloud, warn Oxford scholars

OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images One of the seminal events in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 was the decision by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, to disclose almost no information about its latest large language model (LLM), GPT-4, when the company introduced the program in March.  That sudden swing to secrecy is becoming a major ethical issue … Read more