AI This Week: Elon Musk’s AI-Dominated Future
Headlines This Week The Pentagon wants to beef up its automated drone hordes with some AI. File that under Things That Will Keep You Up At Night. OpenAI has admitted…
Musk Reportedly Wants to Fold Neuralink and Tesla Into One Big Weird AI Company
Anyone who’s spent time observing the erratic, often contradictory behavior of billionaire Elon Musk in recent years could be forgiven for believing he’s lost a sense of direction. That tale…
AI This Week: Fifty Ways to Hack Your Chatbot
Headlines This Week If there’s one thing you do this week it should be listening to Werner Herzog read poetry written by a chatbot. The New York Times has banned…
WokeGPT: Study Says ChatGPT Shows Liberal Bias
A study from researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK suggests ChatGPT demonstrates liberal bias in some of its responses. Tech companies spent recent years desperately trying…
AI This Week: Zoom’s Big TOS Disaster
Hello! We are officially launching a THING. It’s going to be a weekly roundup about what’s happening in artificial intelligence and how it affects you. Generating Video Via Text? |…
‘Hypnotized’ ChatGPT and Bard Will Convince Users to Pay Ransoms and Drive Through Red Lights
Security researchers at IBM say they were able to successfully “hypnotize” prominent large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT into leaking confidential financial information, generating malicious code, encouraging users to pay…
Apple Removes Dozens of AI Apps From Chinese App Store Ahead of Crackdown
Apple has reportedly removed more than 100 generative artificial intelligence apps from the Chinese version of its App Store believed to be in violation of the country’s strict new regulations…
Is ChatGPT Smart Enough to Solve Problems Without Words?
The latest in a slew of speculative AI research papers is making some pretty outlandish claims about how deep learning models have some subtle, unrealized cognitive abilities akin to, or…
James Cameron Is More Worried About an AI Apocalypse Than an AI Movie Script for Now
Fears over the increasing and encroaching role of large language models and other generative AI tools in media have become the heart of Hollywood’s current labor struggle, as the WGA…
Crypto’s Biggest Federal Villain Says AI Could Help Cause the Next Big Financial Crisis
Tech hype comes in waves, and while the focus constantly changes (first crypto, then metaverse, and now AI), some things—like tech’s critics—remain the same. SEC Chair Gary Gensler has been…