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What if you could have a friendly chat with an AI coach that knows how to help you quit smoking? That’s the idea behind Dr. Jonathan Bricker’s research, which uses large language models to create conversational agents that can support and motivate smokers to kick the habit. In this episode, Trevor Noah talks to Dr. […]

The Microsoft AI For Good team helps researchers and organizations reach solutions on some of the world’s biggest problems.

Somehow, the OpenAI board didn’t anticipate that firing the CEO would lead to tumult, a law firm review revealed.

Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?

The latest rival to ChatGPT claims the ability to recognize when people are testing it, according to developers at Anthropic, touting what appears to be a new level of awareness for an AI-powered chatbot. To assess the capabilities of such chatbots, developers typically run a so-called "needle-in-a-haystack" evaluation, which involves asking the so...

Chatting with Hilke Schellmann, author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted and Fired.

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's company has sparked a moral debate in Silicon Valley about closed-source versus open-source AI models.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionise the way we diagnose and treat illness. It could be particularly helpful for depression because it could make more accurate diagnoses and determine which treatments are more likely to work. Some 20% of us will have depression at least once in our lifetimes. Around the world, 300 million32279-7/...

This could break the AI hype train.

The New York Times filed a landmark copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in December.

FTC says it's fighting in the public's corner

Another excellent discussion on the artistic impact of ai

Excellent discussions.

The AI darling faces a long list of serious challenges in 2024

r/LateStageCapitalism: A One-Stop-Shop for Evidence of our Social, Moral and Ideological Rot.

Blockchain could be used to prevent bias in the data that artificial intelligence models are being trained on, executives tell CNBC.

What is his real motivation?

As concerns swirl about the disruption artificial intelligence could cause for the 2024 elections, OpenAI on Monday declared that politicians and their campaigns are not allowed to use the company’s AI tools.

“What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it's not a Black Mirror episode—it's Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use it to your business advantage.”

Artificial intelligence, with its scaremongering headlines around its future and ours, doesn’t get good press. But there are a number of women in the field working to detoxify AI, and they say now is the time to pay attention and get involved

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.”