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Back to news homeThe New Chat Bots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?
This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chat bot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one […]
How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Has Disrupted A.I.
SAN FRANCISCO — In April, a San Francisco artificial intelligence lab called Anthropic raised $580 million for research involving “A.I. safety.”Few in Silicon Valley had heard of the one-year-old lab, […]
Who Gets the Last Word on Steve Jobs? He Might.
When Laurene Powell Jobs unveiled a website dedicated to the story of her late husband, historians wondered if it could change how influential people burnish their legacies. Read More
LinkedIn Ran Social Experiments On 20 Million Users Over Five Years
LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users over five years that, while intended to improve how the platform worked for members, could have affected some people’s livelihoods, according […]
Perceptron: Multilingual, laughing, Pitfall-playing and streetwise AI
Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This […]
YouTube’s Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations, Researchers Say
For YouTube viewers dissatisfied with the videos the platform has recommended to them, pressing the “dislike” button may not make a big difference, according to a new research report.YouTube has […]
Many Developed Countries View Online Misinformation as ‘Major Threat’
Nearly three-quarters of people across 19 countries believe that the spread of false information online is a “major threat,” according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Pew Research […]
Finally, an underwater messaging app
Don’t you hate it when, after going just five or 10 meters underwater, you lose signal completely? Now this vexing limitation of modern technology is being addressed by researchers at […]
One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense
David Ferrucci, who led the team that built IBM’s famed Watson computer, was elated when it beat the best-ever human “Jeopardy!” players in 2011, in a televised triumph for artificial […]