At a hearing of the New York City Council, recently departed employees of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind described a reckless culture at the firms, saying the biggest tech companies…
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ChatGPT for Teens doesn’t do enough to protect users
Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don’t work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children, according to a report…
Microsoft, Nvidia unveil new AI laptop
Microsoft will unveil on Wednesday a new laptop powered by Nvidia's chips, seeking to turn Windows into a platform for AI agents to handle tasks such as writing code without…
Tokyo court grants legal protection to human voices in AI clone case
“The human voice is symbolic of individual personality, just like one’s portrait,” Presiding Judge Aya Takahashi said, according to a court document seen by The Associated Press. It is appropriate…
China’s EV makers can charge cars in 5 minutes. The U.S. is far behind
Chinese electric vehicles’ ultrafast charging is only getting faster. Geely Auto unveiled technology that can charge an electric vehicle battery from 10% to 70% in just 4.5 minutes, a leap…
Why Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it’s controlled?
As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain? The answer may lie in the…
How seriously should we take the warn that AI could kill all humans?
Does artificial superintelligence really pose a risk greater than nuclear weapons? Is there a significant chance of “a Chornobyl-sized catastrophe”. Might there even be a greater than 10% chance that…
I don’t see any step up in the risk of human extinction from AI
The author, Andrew Ng, is a pioneer in machine learning and online education, Dr. Ng has changed countless lives through his work in AI. Over 8 million people have taken…