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January 04, 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search

Perplexity, with a fraction of Google’s users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years

By Editors Desk

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho, co-founders of the startup Perplexity, in San Francisco.

December 30, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

When Silicon Valley’s AI warriors came to Washington

Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement’s billionaire adherents pour money into Washington, its obsession with the AI apocalypse is remaking the capital’s tech policy landscape.

Illustration by @eoinryanart for POLITICO

December 26, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT

Prof Mike Wooldridge will address looming questions around AI in this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures

By Editors Desk

Mike Wooldridge with the robot Ai-Da ahead of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. Photograph: Kate Green/Getty Images

December 23, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Humanoid Robots With Artificial Intelligence Have a Long Way to Go

Building convincing human-like robots is challenging, expensive and of questionable benefit, according to an expert in robotics and AI

December 23, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100 Billion or More

OpenAI would be second-most valuable US startup behind SpaceX

December 19, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates: Why I’m optimistic about the future of AI

I believe there is huge potential to use AI to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries.

CNN/Getty Images/Adobe. AI tools can speed up the process of drug discovery significantly, Bill Gates writes.

December 18, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI lays out plan for dealing with dangers of AI

The ChatGPT maker is charging ahead on selling AI. It’s also researching potential harms like helping people make bioweapons.

By Editors Desk

OpenAI is assembling teams of experts to study the risks of AI and alert the company if its products are becoming dangerous. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

December 18, 2023

Tech

It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

As technology accelerates, we need to stop accepting the bad consequences along with the good ones.

By Editors Desk

December 13, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Marissa Mayer wants to embrace the AI race and risks — in the right way

Mayer has "always been fascinated" by AI. In fact, both her degrees have an AI focus.

By Editors Desk

Marissa Mayer. Kimberly White/Getty Images for Fortune

December 13, 2023

Business

Sam Altman on OpenAI and Artificial General Intelligence

Altman insists that the experience ultimately made the company stronger—and proved that OpenAI’s success is a team effort.

By Editors Desk

Sam Altman on OpenAI and Artificial General Intelligence

December 10, 2023

Tech

Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round

The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.

By Editors Desk

Arthur Mensch is one of three founders of Mistral, which believes open-source A.I. software can be safer and more effective.Credit...Pool photo by Toby Melville

December 08, 2023

Tech

EU strikes deal to regulate AI tech in landmark act

The draft legislation still needs to be formally approved by EU member states and the parliament.

By Editors Desk

After more than 33 hours of negotiations this week, delegates from the European Commission, the European Parliament and 27 member countries agreed to a set of controls for generative artificial intelligence tools. | REUTERS

November 23, 2023

Tech

OpenAI staff warned of 'dangerous' AI discovery days before CEO fired

Researchers at OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – penned a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that could threaten humanity. Days later, the CEO was fired.

By Editors Desk

OpenAI and ChatGPT logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 3, 2023. Photo credit: REUTERS/DADO RUVIC/ILLUSTRATION

November 18, 2023

Tech

Sam Altman Is Said to Be Discussing Return to OpenAI With Company’s Board

Mr. Altman was forced out of OpenAI on Friday, leading to an outcry from his supporters and the company’s investors.

By Editors Desk

Sam Altman was ousted as OpenAI’s chief executive on Friday.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times

November 11, 2023

Tech

What Elon Musk’s ‘Age of Abundance’ Means for the Future of Capitalism

The world’s richest man and others are describing a world with little work

By Editors Desk

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMIL LENDOF/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; SHUTTERSTOCK, TESLA

November 09, 2023

Entertainment

How artificial intelligence will transform fame

.Those complaining the loudest about the new technology stand to benefit the most.

By Editors Desk

October 24, 2023

Tech

AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief

Demis Hassabis calls for greater regulation to quell existential fears over tech with above-human levels of intelligence

By Editors Desk

Demis Hassabis says AI could be one of the most important and beneficial technologies ever invented. Illustration: Guardian Design

October 14, 2023

Tech

AI can now copy anyone’s voice. Politicians and celebs are finding out the hard way.

Experts have long predicted generative artificial intelligence would lead to a tsunami of faked photos and video. What’s emerging is an audio crisis.

By Editors Desk

(Illustration by Lucy Naland/The Washington Post; iStock)

October 11, 2023

Entertainment

Adobe Unwraps AI-Driven Tools, Promises “Accountability, Responsibility and Transparency”

"I don't think [AI] is going to displace creative professionals. ... but I think you will see disruption between the people who figure out how to adopt it well and those who don't," CTO Ely Greenfield told THR at this week's Adobe Max conference.

By Editors Desk

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayanobe at Adobe Max CAROLYN GIARDINA

September 20, 2023

Web

ChatGPT can now generate images after OpenAI released a new version of its DALL-E image generator.

OpenAI released a new version of its DALL-E image generator to a small group of testers and incorporated the technology into its popular ChatGPT chatbot.

By Editors Desk

A.I.-generated images made using OpenAI’s DALL-E 3.Credit...OpenAI