Tech & Society
Resources for Research: U.S. government launches pilot program to fuel AI innovation with national resources.
The United States government wants to connect U.S. AI researchers with resources that can help them develop their projects.
Tech & Society
Tech & Society
Sovereign AI: Governments invest billions to secure homegrown AI technologies.
Governments want access to AI chips and software built in their own countries, and they are shelling out billions of dollars to make it happen. Nations across the world are supporting homegrown AI processing and development, The Economist reported.
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AI Creates Jobs, Study Suggests: European Central Bank study finds surprising growth in jobs affected by AI.
Europeans are keeping their jobs even as AI does an increasing amount of work. Researchers at the European Central Bank found that employment in occupations affected by AI rose over nearly a decade.
Letters
The Easiest Way to Achieve Artificial General Intelligence: Coming up with scientific definitions of ambiguous terms like consciousness and sentience can spur progress but mislead the public.
As I wrote in an earlier letter, whether AI is sentient or conscious is a philosophical question rather than a scientific one, since there is no widely agreed-upon definition and test for these terms.
Tech & Society
Standard for Media Watermarks: C2PA introduces watermark tech to combat media misinformation.
An alliance of major tech and media companies introduced a watermark designed to distinguish real from fake media starting with images. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) offers an open standard that marks media files with information about their creation and editing.
Tech & Society
OpenAI Expands Platform Play: OpenAI releases the GPT store, a curated chatbot marketplace.
The GPT Store is open for business, providing curated, searchable access to millions of chatbots tailored for specific purposes.
Tech & Society
AI Busts Out at CES: CES 2024 showcased AI's reach beyond browsers and smartphones.
The 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcased products that take advantage of increasingly powerful, increasingly accessible AI capabilities. Many debuts at the massive CES show showed that large language models (LLMs) are moving beyond browsers and smartphones.
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AGI Defined: Researchers propose a taxonomy for artificial general intelligence (AGI).
How will we know if someone succeeds in building artificial general intelligence (AGI)? A recent paper defines milestones on the road from calculator to superintelligence.
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OpenAI Revamps Safety Protocol: Inside OpenAI's framework to evaluate and mitigate model risks
Retrenching after its November leadership shakeup, OpenAI unveiled a new framework for evaluating risks posed by its models and deciding whether to limit their use.
Letters
The New York Times versus OpenAI and Microsoft: The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, but the real issues and harms are not clear.
Last week, the New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging massive copyright infringements. The suit claims, among other things, that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of copyrighted NYT articles to train their models...
Business
Vive L’Intelligence Artificielle: Paris emerges as a hub for AI ventures.
AI ventures are thriving in the French capital. Paris is host to a crop of young companies that focus on large language models. TechCrunch surveyed the scene. Paris is well situated for an AI boomlet...
Tech & Society
AI Against Climate Change: A roadmap explores how AI can detect and mitigate greenhouse gases.
How can AI help to fight climate change? A new report evaluates progress so far and explores options for the future. The Innovation for Cool Earth Forum, a conference of climate researchers hosted by Japan...