Today: November 14, 2024
Today: November 14, 2024

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Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI's next wave

Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it

Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI's next wave
Technology

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for race

Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make sense

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for race
Entertainment|Technology

Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don't want it to replace them

Video game studios pay professional actors to voice the soldiers, goblins, elves and aliens that populate virtual worlds

Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don't want it to replace them
Business|Finance|Technology|US

FTC launches inquiry into artificial intelligence deals such as Microsoft's OpenAI partnership

U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an investigation into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Anthropic and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them

FTC launches inquiry into artificial intelligence deals such as Microsoft's OpenAI partnership
Technology

Here are the 'Worst in Show' CES products, according to consumer and privacy advocates

The best CES products pierce through the haze of marketing hype at the Las Vegas gadget show to reveal innovations that could improve lives

Here are the 'Worst in Show' CES products, according to consumer and privacy advocates
Technology

Microsoft's new AI key is first big change to keyboards in decades

Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system will have a special “Copilot key” that launches the software giant’s AI chatbot

Microsoft's new AI key is first big change to keyboards in decades
Business|Technology

AI's future could be 'open-source' or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators

Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor

AI's future could be 'open-source' or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators
Business|Technology

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman, the face of the AI boom, for lack of candor with company

The board of ChatGPT-maker Open AI says it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman and replaced him with an interim CEO

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman, the face of the AI boom, for lack of candor with company
Business|Finance|Technology|US

US regulators seek to compel Elon Musk to testify in their investigation of his Twitter acquisition

The Securities and Exchange Commission says it is seeking a court order that would compel Elon Musk to testify as part of an investigation into his purchase of Twitter, now called X

US regulators seek to compel Elon Musk to testify in their investigation of his Twitter acquisition
Business|Election|Political|Technology|US

Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes

US Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York sent a letter Thursday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X CEO Linda Yaccarino expressing “serious concerns” about the emergence of AI-generated political ads on their platforms and asking each to explain any rules they’re crafting to curb the harms to free and fair elections

Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes
Business|Entertainment|Lifestyle|Technology

Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it's also embracing the technology

Getty Images has a huge collection of stock photographs

Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it's also embracing the technology
Business|Science|Technology

AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?

Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate

AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?
Business|Science|Technology

AI industry is influencing the world. Mozilla adviser Abeba Birhane is challenging its core values

“Scaling up” is a catchphrase in the artificial intelligence industry as tech companies rush to improve their AI systems with ever-bigger sets of internet data

AI industry is influencing the world. Mozilla adviser Abeba Birhane is challenging its core values
Science|Technology

AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online

AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text
Business|Science|Technology

Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks

A group of OpenAI’s current and former workers are calling on the ChatGPT-maker and other artificial intelligence companies to protect employees who flag safety risks about AI technology

Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks
Business|Science|Technology

Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone

Artificial intelligence voice-cloning technology carries so many risks of harmful impersonation that major technology companies are wary of letting people use it

Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone
Science|Technology

Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained?

There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are broadly as smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can

Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained?
Business|Entertainment|Science|Technology

Tired of AI doomsday tropes, Cohere CEO says his goal is technology that's 'additive to humanity'

Aidan Gomez can take some credit for the ‘T’ at the end of ChatGPT

Tired of AI doomsday tropes, Cohere CEO says his goal is technology that's 'additive to humanity'
Business|Science|Technology

Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos and tech giants

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure

Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos and tech giants
Science|Technology

2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren't sure what to do about it

ChatGPT was the catalyst for a year that took artificial intelligence mainstream

2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren't sure what to do about it
Science|Technology

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them?

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them?
Opinion|Science|Technology

White House wades into debate on 'open' versus 'closed' artificial intelligence systems

The Biden administration is wading into a contentious debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be “open-source” or closed

White House wades into debate on 'open' versus 'closed' artificial intelligence systems
Election|Europe|News|Science|Technology|US

Biden administration to host international AI safety meeting in San Francisco after election

Government scientists and artificial intelligence experts from at least nine countries and the European Union will meet in San Francisco after the U.S. elections to coordinate on safely developing AI technology and averting its dangers

Biden administration to host international AI safety meeting in San Francisco after election
News|Science

How do you know when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous? Regulators try to do the math

How do you know if an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security danger and shouldn’t be unleashed without careful oversight

How do you know when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous? Regulators try to do the math
Business|Crime|News|Technology

AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes

AT&T says it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online

AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes

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