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White House unveils AI rules to address safety and privacy
The Biden administration today announced a new effort to address the risks around generative artificial intelligence (AI), which has been advancing at breakneck speeds and setting off alarm bells among industry experts. Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration officials are scheduled to meet today with the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, the creator of the popular…
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Q&A: Google’s Geoffrey Hinton — humanity just a ‘passing phase’ in the evolution of intelligence
Geoffrey Hinton, a professor and former Google engineering fellow, is known as “godfather of artificial intelligence” because of his contributions to the development of the technology. A cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, he pioneered work on developing artificial neural networks and deep learning techniques, such as back propagation — the algorithm that allows computers to learn. …
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AI deep fakes, mistakes, and biases may be unavoidable, but controllable
As generative AI developers such as ChatGPT, Dall-E2, and AlphaCode barrel ahead at a breakneck pace, keeping the technology from hallucinating and spewing erroneous or offensive responses is nearly impossible. Especially as AI tools get better by the day at mimicking natural language, it will soon be impossible to discern fake results from real ones,…
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Are Apple’s upcoming AR glasses already obsolete?
The future of augmented reality (AR) glasses is clear. At least it used to be. Then OpenAI happened. Specifically, the focus of AR has been following the Microsoft Hololens/Magic Leap idea, where billions are spent on the R&D goal of anchoring high-definition 3D digital objects to physical spaces. The Holy Grail is that, say, a…
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Q&A: At MIT event, Tom Siebel sees ‘terrifying’ consequences from using AI
Speakers ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) developers to law firms grappled this week with questions about the efficacy and ethics of AI during MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital conference. Among those who had a somewhat alarmist view of the technology (and regulatory efforts to rein it in) was Tom Siebel, CEO C3 AI and founder of…