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Man Ends His Life After AI Chatbot 'Encouraged' Him to Sacrifice Himself to Stop Climate Change
A Belgian man reportedly took his own life after conversing with an artificial intelligence chatbot on the Chai app about his climate anxiety.
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Italy Bans ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns
Move prompted by a recent data breach that exposed the personal information of ChatGPT users.
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Biden Says Tech Companies Must Ensure AI Products are Safe
Biden "is setting the stage for a national dialogue on the topic by elevating attention to AI, which is desperately needed," said Russell Wald at the Stanford Institute...
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Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology
A start-up in New York is among a group of companies working on systems that can produce short videos based on a few words typed into a computer.
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AI 'Fairness' Research Held Back by Lack of Diversity
Authors of papers on the potential biases of artificial intelligence tools in health care are predominantly white, male and from high-income countries.
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How Randomness Improves Algorithms
Unpredictability can help computer scientists solve otherwise intractable problems.
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A Campaign Aide Didn't Write That Email. A.I. Did.
The swift advance of artificial intelligence in politics is already blurring the boundaries between fact and fake.
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Police Relied on Hidden Technology and Put the Wrong Person in Jail
A man falsely accused of theft in a state he said he had never even visited.
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The State of Artificial Intelligence: Stanford HAI Releases its Latest AI Index Report
Stanford HAI's new report also dedicates multiple chapters to the impact of AI on society.
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AI Pioneer Admits There is a Small Chance AI Leads to Humanity's Extinction
Ultimately, though, Hinton says artificial intelligencew has a lot of potential to help make people's jobs easier.
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Publishers Worry A.I. Chatbots Will Cut Readership
Many sites get at least half their traffic from search engines. Fuller results generated by new chatbots could mean far fewer visitors.
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Conservatives Aim to Build Their Own Chatbot
Chatbots have become a new political weapon, with conservatives aiming to design bots reflecting their values amid accusations that artificial intelligence companies...
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Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
Advances in artificial intelligence tools that can code could improve productivity, but portend disruption.
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Meet The Band's New Drummer: Keirzo the Robot
Keirzo has absorbed recordings of a range of different drummers, and is practicing and merging various techniques to develop its own playing style.
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Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing 'Profound Risks to Society'
More than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers, and others signed an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence...
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Publishers Prepare for Showdown With Microsoft, Google Over AI Tools
Media executives want compensation for use of their content in ChatGPT, Bing and Bard.
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GitHub Launches GPT-4-Powered Copilot Coding Assistant
Software developer hosting service GitHub launched a new version of its Copilot coding assistant powered by the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) multimodal...
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Humans (Mostly) Love Trash Robots
Simple robots wander NYC asking for trash and recycling, and it's adorable.
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Can a Machine Know That We Know What It Knows?
Machine learning researchers have struggled over the past couple of decades to capture the flexibility of human knowledge in computer models.
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