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Deepmind founder: AI must not 'move fast and break things'
Google Deepmind co-founder Demis Hassabis said the AI industry should not adopt the Silicon Valley mantra.
Human input boosts citizens' acceptance of AI and perceptions of fairness, study shows
Increasing human input when AI is used for public services boosts acceptance of the technology, a new study shows.
Google Offers Bug Bounties for Generative AI Security Vulnerabilities
Google's Vulnerability Reward Program offers up to $31,337 for discovering potential hazards. Google joins OpenAI and Microsoft in rewarding AI bug hunts.
Joe Biden’s Big AI Plan Sounds Scary—but Lacks Bite
Joe Biden’s new executive order is billed as the biggest governmental AI plan ever. Unless he can convince a dysfunctional US Congress and overseas rivals to play along, its effects will be limited.
Scientists train AI to illuminate drugs' impact
Predicting who could benefit from a given drug has been difficult. An international team is training AI to assist.
Quora’s Poe introduces an AI chatbot creator economy
When you think of the term “creator” you generally think of someone making content for social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram. But Quora’s AI chatbot platform Poe is now paying bot creators for their efforts, including those who generate “prompt bots” on Poe itself, as well as server bots created by developers who […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Elon Musk to do an interview with UK PM Rishi Sunak
The tech billionaire and British PM are due to broadcast a conversation after the global AI summit.
Elon Musk to do a live interview with UK PM Rishi Sunak
The tech billionaire and British Prime Minister are due to do a live interview after the global AI summit, which is being hosted in the UK this week.
Apple’s Scary Fast Event: New M3 Chip Family, MacBook Pro Line & iMac
The next generation of MacBook Pro will utilize the M3 family of chips shown at Apple's Scary Fast event on October 30, continuing the company's trend of moving away from Intel chips.
Existential risk? Regulatory capture? AI for one and all? A look at what’s going on with AI in the UK
The promise and pitfall of artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days. Some say AI will save us: it’s already on the case to fix pernicious health problems, patch up digital divides in education, and do other good works. Others fret about the threats it poses in warfare, security, misinformation and more. It has […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
White House Executive Order on AI Provides Guidelines for AI Privacy and Safety
The Biden administration directed government organizations, including NIST, to encourage responsible and innovative use of generative AI.
ChatGPT for career growth? Practica introduces AI-based career coaching and mentorship
Can an AI be your mentor? That’s what a startup called Practica believes. The company, which evolved out of a marketplace for one-on-one executive coaching, has now launched an AI system built on top of an existing knowledge base it developed over the years spent with a large group of human coaches. The resulting AI […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
ChatGPT app revenue shows no signs of slowing, but some other AI apps top it
ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot from OpenAI, far outpaces all other AI chatbot apps on mobile devices in terms of downloads and is a market leader by revenue, as well. However, it’s surprisingly not the top AI app by revenue — several photo AI apps and even other AI chatbots are actually making more money than […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
US announces 'strongest global action yet' on AI safety
The measures have been issued less than 48 hours before the UK hosts an AI safety summit.
Generative AI Is Playing a Surprising Role in Israel-Hamas Disinformation
Even as some feared the war would be the first in history to be flooded with machine-made fake images, that hasn’t happened. The technology’s impact on the conflict is far more subtle.
Joe Biden’s Sweeping New Executive Order Aims to Drag the US Government into the Age of ChatGPT
President Joe Biden issued a wide-ranging executive order on artificial intelligence with measures to boost US tech talent and prevent AI being used to threaten national security.
New techniques efficiently accelerate sparse tensors for massive AI models
Complimentary approaches — “HighLight” and “Tailors and Swiftiles” — could boost the performance of demanding machine-learning tasks.
Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security
The SecureLoop search tool efficiently identifies secure designs for hardware that can boost the performance of complex AI tasks, while requiring less energy.
The brain may learn about the world the same way some computational models do
Two studies find “self-supervised” models, which learn about their environment from unlabeled data, can show activity patterns similar to those of the mammalian brain.
How to Create Images With ChatGPT’s New Dall-E 3 Integration
OpenAI’s new image generator is powerful and flawed. Here’s how to use the beta feature in ChatGPT Plus, and some advice for getting started.
