AI’s Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law
A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and…
It’s Not AI, It’s ‘Apple Intelligence’
Photo: David Paul Morris (Getty Images) Apple is expected to announce major artificial intelligence updates to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac next week during its Worldwide Developers Conference. Except Apple…
Zoom CEO Wants an AI Avatar to Do Your Job While You’re at the Beach
The company made famous by pandemic video chatting has a new vision for the future of work. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The Verge that AI avatars will one day…
OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the…
Microsoft says it released 30 responsible AI tools in the past year
Microsoft shared its responsible artificial intelligence practices from the past year in an inaugural report, including releasing 30 responsible AI tools that have over 100 features to support AI developed…
Congress: Maybe We Shouldn’t Let AI Destroy the News Media
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. What Could the Future of Medical AI Look Like? Off English Last year, after…
All the Ways AI Could Suck in 2024
Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing (Getty Images) As 2024 begins, there has been plenty of speculation about what lies ahead for artificial intelligence. AI was the hottest industry in the world last…
Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction
Photo: josefkubes (Shutterstock) A survey of the leading AI scientists says there’s a 5% chance that AI will become uncontrollable and wipe out humanity. In the short term, researchers estimate…
How to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human in 2024
In the last year, computers started acting strangely human. As OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever put it, you can think of AI as a “digital brain”, one that’s directly modeled after that…
It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week,…