If there was a reward for vague language, ChatGPT earned it.
Ten days after Columbia University students decided to make national headlines by camping out on the colleges’ quad, they’ve managed to elicit hours’ worth of X debates about free speech rights and an incredibly lukewarm response from the Biden administration.
A pretty dramatic story out of Baltimore today which reveals what may be the first hate hoax perpetrated with the help of artificial intelligence. The principal of Pikesville High School, Eric Eiswert, was accused in January of making blatantly racist comments behind closed doors after an inflammatory audio file was posted on a popular Instagram account.
The release of Google’s Gemini A.I. image-generator a few weeks ago raised quite a bit of both amusement and disgust. Among other things, in obedience to its woke creators, it dutifully remade Western history as the creation of non-white people. While it’s tempting to go down the rabbit trail of remaking George Washington as a black man — while simultaneously excoriating him as an evil, patriarchal slave-oppressor — plenty of other people have already had fun along those lines. My concern with this latest non-consensual experiment performed on humanity is different. I worry what it will do to us. I worry what it will leave for us to do.
US aerospace firm Boeing is still hoping to weaponise the new MQ-25 Stingray drone it’s building for the US Navy’s aircraft carriers. Sure, there’s a profit motive. But Boeing isn’t wrong. Adding missiles to the far-flying MQ-25 – the Navy’s first in service carrier-capable drone – is a really good idea.
Put simply, the MQ-25 is the only aircraft currently in development for the Navy’s carrier air wings that possesses the range to strike at Chinese forces without forcing the carrier itself to sail dangerously close to those same forces.
The US military has carried out the first ever dogfight between a human pilot and an AI-controlled fighter jet.
The computer-controlled F-16 jet took on a manned F-16 aircraft in aerial combat at Edwards air force base in California in September last year, the US air force has announced.
Travelling at speeds of up to 1,200 miles per hour, the two jets practised both defensive and offensive scenarios as well as within-visual-range combat, known as dogfighting. At one point they came within 2,000 feet (610 metres) of each other.
A recent report from AND Digital reveals that a significant number of UK-based CEOs are grappling with the potential threat AI poses to their own positions, while simultaneously pushing for its adoption within their organizations.
Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is taking over the internet. Content creators use it to generate images, videos, and text, programmers use it to generate code, and writers use it to generate illustrations. But AI is trained on woke, left-leaning content (like the New York Times). That may not impact computer scientists, but it does matter for those of us in the business of ideas.
In a Calgary warehouse almost as big as eight football fields, an army of robots whir about, carrying massive quantities of merchandise bound for Walmart Canada customers.
Some of the robots zip around the hulking facility transporting pallets of merchandise fresh off delivery trucks. Another resembling a giant arm moves the pallets onto conveyor belts. A third group are labellers.
Together, they shave down the time it takes to get products from trailers into the facility by 90 per cent — and their overlord, Walmart Canada, hopes this is just the start. It plans to bring robots to Mississauga and Cornwall, Ont., distribution centres over the next five years.
Will they be forced to have diverse robots? Like a Trannybot?
Meta’s AI image generator has been criticised for failing to conceive of interracial couples — becoming the latest tech tool to be accused of bias.
The feature repeatedly failed to create pictures of Asian men with white women and vice versa, users complained, despite the company’s white founder, Mark Zuckerberg, being married to a Chinese-American woman, Priscilla Chan.
OpenAI has said it is withholding a voice-cloning tool from public release over safety fears.
The artificial intelligence company, which created the instant messaging tool ChatGPT, claims its Voice Engine programme can clone a person’s voice with 15 seconds of recorded speech.
It announced the technology on Friday, a week after filing a trademark application for the same name.
A police force has paid tribute to its robotic dog which was shot three times during an armed raid.
Roscoe, part of a Massachusetts state police bomb squad, was sent into a house to find an armed suspect during a seven-hour stand-off on March 6.
Justin Moreira, 30, had allegedly held his mother at knifepoint, Barnstable Police Department said.
Some 20 artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are currently available for general use. Students, reporters, and researchers already rely heavily on these programs to help write term papers, media reports, and research papers. Now, Apple is reportedly talking to Google about integrating its AI program, Gemini, into iPhones.
Artificial intelligence technology is coming to Hollywood a lot faster than many could have anticipated. This week, OpenAI is reportedly making the rounds to studios and talent agencies in a bid to promote Sora, the text-to-video generative AI application that its developers hope will revolutionize the way Hollywood makes movies and TV shows.
Gonna be a lot of unemployed in Hollywood.
Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess.
Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device.
The implant seeks to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts.
Nations — Canada included — are running out of time to design and implement comprehensive safeguards on the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence systems, a leading AI safety company warned this week.
In a worst-case scenario, power-seeking superhuman AI systems could escape their creators’ control and pose an “extinction-level” threat to humanity, AI researchers wrote in a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of State entitled Defence in Depth: An Action Plan to Increase the Safety and Security of Advanced AI.
