India Says It Won’t Regulate AI
India planted its flag in the sand of the global artificial intelligence race on Tuesday as a major agency said the government has no plans to regulate the technology. Generating…
Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody
Meta has some big AI ambitions, even as it seems like it’s long been playing catch up to OpenAI, Microsoft, and even Google. To make a bit of a splash,…
Italy Flocks to VPNs Amidst ChatGPT Ban
The Italian Data Protection Authority announced a temporary ban of ChatGPT after alleging that the chatbot violated European Union data privacy laws. Image: Iryna Imago (Shutterstock) After Italy temporarily banned…
Privacy Executive Rob Leathern Is Out At Google. Now He Wants to Talk About AI.
When people start complaining that your tech company is ruining the world, you hire a guy like Rob Leathern. He joined Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, just as…
Bill Gates Doesn’t Think You Can Pause AI, Even If You Want To
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke out against recent calls to pause Artificial Intelligence developments out of fear of the risk to society. Gates is now advocating for finding…
I brought ChatGPT to the board game world. Is it ready for game night?
We all know that ChatGPT is great at speeding up mundane tasks. What could be drier than explaining the rules of a complicated game at board game night? There’s no…
18 Things ChatGPT Can and Can’t Do
Photo: Bryan Pollard (Shutterstock) In December, a Furman University professor, Darren Hick, caught a student using ChatGPT to write a final paper on a philosophical paradox. Hick failed the student…
‘Grim outlook’ as criminals commandeer AI chatbots, Europol says
Europol this week issued a stark warning highlighting the risks posed by criminals as they get to grips with the new wave of advanced AI chatbots. In a post shared…
Tech leaders call for pause of GPT-4.5, GPT-5 development due to ‘large-sale risks’
Generative AI has been moving at an unbelievable speed in recent months, with the launch of various tools and bots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, and more. Yet this…
How a Senator’s Misguided Tweet Can Help Us Understand AI
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy stirred the AI researcher hornets’ nest this week by repeating a number of ill-informed, and increasingly popular statements about advanced AI chatbots’ capacity to achieve human-like…