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AI is quickly becoming adept at producing everything from song lyrics to movie posters to video storyboards with just a few text prompts. Microsoft has been busy trying to stuff as many of these AI tools as it can into its Edge browser, but there’s one powerful Microsoft AI tool that you may have missed so far: Microsoft Designer.Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextMicrosoft Designer launched last October but has only just been made available for anyone to try, no longer requiringa waiting list—though…

The essence of the very concept of “artificial intelligence” is inherently cold. Cool metal encasing a mess of silicon and wires buzzing with processed data. No, the computer cannot “feel” or even “think,” but that sense of emotional scarcity often gets attributed to the scientists and researchers who helped create…Read more... The essence of the very concept of “artificial intelligence” is inherently cold. Cool metal encasing a mess of silicon and wires buzzing with processed data. No, the computer cannot “feel” or…

The author’s 1998 head-tracking algorithm used skin color to distinguish a face from the background of an image.Photo: Source: John MacCormick, CC BY-NDMaybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today.The dangers of bias and errors in AI algorithms are now well known. Why, then, has there been a flurry of blunders by tech companies in recent months, especially in the world…

AI chatbots have come for journalism, and now they are coming for our burgers. Wendy’s is reportedly gearing up to unveil a chatbot-powered drive-thru experience next month, with help from a partnership with Google.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIThe Wall Street Journal reported that the upcoming rollout will be relegated to a single Wendy’s restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. According to the outlet, software engineers at the fast food chain have been working with Google to build an AI on top…

AI chatbot systems are so vast and complicated that even the companies who make them can’t predict their behavior. That’s led to a whack-a-mole effort to stop chatbots from spitting out content that’s harmful, illegal, or just unsettling, which they often do. Current solutions involve an army of low-paid workers giving the algorithms feedback on chatbot responses, but there’s a new proposed solution from Anthropic, an AI research company started by former OpenAI employees. Anthropic published an AI “constitution” Tuesday.…

Chinese police arrested a man Sunday in what could be one of the first precedent-setting cases of a person using ultra-popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to allegedly spread misinformation. That, or it could be a new means for state actors to discredit real news by proclaiming it’s all a lie manufactured by generative AI. Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?As reportedby the South China Morning Post Monday, police in the Gansu province in Northern China say they arrested a man for allegedly creating fake articles about a…

ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot, is powered by machine learning systems, but those systems are guided by human workers, many of whom aren’t paid particularly well. A new report from NBC News shows that OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, has been paying droves of U.S. contractors to assist it with the necessary task of data labelling—the process of training ChatGPT’s software to better respondto user requests. The compensation for this pivotal task? A scintillating $15 per hour.Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future…

Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock)Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race. Specifically, the letter recommended that labs pause training for technologies stronger than OpenAI’s GPT-4, the most sophisticated generation of today’s language-generating AI systems, for at least six months.Sounding the alarm on risks posed by AI is…

Megalithic tech companies such as Google, Meta, and Microsoft are so obsessed with AI development it seems impossible to steer any of them toward slowing down and actually thinking about the repercussions. Now one of the most prominent faces in artificially intelligence research, former Googler Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, has come down hard on the full-spring pace of AI development, ultimately calling for some kind of global regulation. Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIAccording to an interview…

A.I. marketing is at a fever pitch, promising that this new wave of generative AI tools, powered by large language models, can help us do everything from navigating legal contracts to saving hundreds on our phone bills. When a leader like Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai calls AI “more profound than fire or electricity,” it’s hard not to be excited by the potential. But as the CEO of Consumer Reports, I know some of the shiniest objects in the market don’t always live up to their hype. The ravenous appetite of quarterly profits…