In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of its ecommerce operations and kickstarted a wider revolution in…
Read more Could This Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution?In late July, OpenAI began rolling out an eerily humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. In a safety analysis released today, the company acknowledges that this anthropomorphic voice may…
Read more OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice ModeSeveral years before ChatGPT began jibber-jabbering away, Google developed a very different kind of artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that learned to play the board game Go with…
Read more Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind SpotI am by no means a skilled coder, but thanks to a free program called SWE-agent, I was just able to debug and fix a gnarly problem involving…
Read more The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is NearThis week, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of the health company Thrive Global, published an article in Time touting Thrive AI, a…
Read more OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of PersuasionWhen OpenAI announced GPT-4, its latest large language model, last March, it sent shockwaves through the tech world. It was clearly more capable than anything seen before at…
Read more We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AIThe emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions. Will Knight Source link
Read more Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive ChatbotsJoel Lewenstein, a head of product design at Anthropic, was recently crawling beneath his new house to adjust the irrigation system when he ran into a conundrum: The…
Read more 6 Practical Tips for Using Anthropic’s Claude ChatbotPhilosopher Nick Bostrom is surprisingly cheerful for someone who has spent so much time worrying about ways that humanity might destroy itself. In photographs he often looks deadly…
Read more Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything?GlobalFoundries, a company that makes chips for others, including AMD and General Motors, previously announced a partnership with Lightmatter. Harris says his company is “working with the largest…
Read more To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be LightElectrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an AI revolution was brewing inside the US tech…
Read more The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI EdgeThis week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done…
Read more Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the FutureElon Musk last week sued two of his OpenAI cofounders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of “flagrant breaches” of the trio’s original agreement that the company…
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