When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation […]
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Back to news homeWhat Happened When 15 of Twitter’s Top Celebrities Joined Threads
Threads, the new social app from Meta, had a fast start this month when it racked up 100 million downloads in less than a week. With so much momentum, the […]
Russia’s Online Censorship Has Surged During Ukraine War
What’s the difference between Russia’s internet before and after the invasion of Ukraine? The answer: a thirtyfold increase in censorship.That was the finding of a report published on Wednesday by […]
Tech Firms Once Powered New York’s Economy. Now They’re Scaling Back.
For much of the last two decades, including during the pandemic, technology companies were a bright spot in New York’s economy, adding thousands of high-paying jobs and expanding into millions […]
How Do the White House’s A.I. Commitments Stack Up?
This week, the White House announced that it had secured “voluntary commitments” from seven leading A.I. companies to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence.Getting the companies — Amazon, Anthropic, […]
Meta, Google and A.I. Firms Agree to Safety Measures in Biden Meeting
Seven leading A.I. companies in the United States have agreed to voluntary safeguards on the technology’s development, the White House announced on Friday, pledging to manage the risks of the […]
A.I. Regulation Is in Its ‘Early Days’
Regulating artificial intelligence has been a hot topic in Washington in recent months, with lawmakers holding hearings and news conferences and the White House announcing voluntary A.I. safety commitments by […]
An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips
Inside a cavernous room this week in a one-story building in Santa Clara, Calif., six-and-a-half-foot-tall machines whirred behind white cabinets. The machines made up a new supercomputer that had become […]
How to Direct A.I. Chatbots to Make Them More Useful
Anyone seduced by A.I.-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard — wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually runs into what are known as hallucinations, the tendency for artificial […]
Caroline Ellison Writes About Ex-Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried
Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old chief executive of the crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was racked with self-doubt.“I have been feeling pretty […]