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Culture / The one thing science fiction couldn’t imagine is the world we have now: the near-complete control of Artificial Intelligence by a few corporations whose only goal is profit. Dwayne Monroe As HAL 9000, the true star of Stanley Kubrick´s landmark film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, died a silicon death by memory module removal, the machine, reduced to its infant state (the moment it became operational) recited: “Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am...

The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans.

“Beyond the cursing, Elon Musk’s interview is erratic enough to end his career.”

Anyone but amazon & musk.

Here’s who made the 2023 TIME100 AI list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence.

Did OpenAI Secretly Create a Brain-Like Intelligence After All? What We Know About Q* and OpenAI’s Potential AGI Breakthrough Earlier this year, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman sent the tech world into a …

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Divorce, trouble peeing, and stealing hotel food: Why did a job network become everyone's favorite place for oversharing?

The man who can't build a self-driving car wants to be in the driver's seat of your brain

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It’s decentralized social media.

Meta’s microblogging app is intuitive, has already been downloaded by millions of people, and has other advantages over Twitter’s would-be rivals.

AI represents a massive opportunity for the workforce. However, in order to fully realize this potential and ensure that it benefits everyone, it will require intentional and deliberate action from leaders across organizations. The latest Microsoft Work Trend Index shares why.

For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.

Just as SpaceX’s Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly this month, Musk is a mess, too, thanks to Twitter’s blue ticks, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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The kids may or may not be alright, but one thing is clear: They are super into Marianne Williamson. If engagement on TikTok is any indication, a

Lately, I have been experimenting with artificial intelligence image-generating programs. Their power is astonishing. They’re not just good at the

Musk is adding himself to the chatbot arms race, with plans to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, which he derided as being too "woke."

TikTok’s algorithms are fuelled by data. It’s time to take back some control