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It is not hard — at all — to trick today’s chatbots into discussing taboo topics, regurgitating bigoted content and spreading misinformation. That’s why AI pioneer Anthropic has imbued its generative AI, Claude, with a mix of 10 secret principles of fairness, which it unveiled in March. In a blog post Tuesday, the company further explained how its Constitutional AI system is designed and how it is intended to operate. Normally, when an generative AI model is being trained, there’s a human in the loop to provide quality…

The White House plans to meet with top executives from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic on Thursday to discuss the promise and risks of artificial intelligence.Vice President Kamala Harris and other US administration officials will discuss ways to ensure consumers benefit from AI while being protected from its harms, according to a copy of an invitation seen by AFP. US President Joe Biden expects tech companies to make sure products are safe before being released to the public, the invitation said. US regulators…

MosaicML, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Intel Corp executives and academic researchers, released on Wednesday two new products aimed at beating industry giants such as OpenAI on price. San Francisco-based MosaicML, which has raised $64 million to date, launched in 2021 with a suite of software tools designed to make it cheaper to carry out artificial intelligence work, which often involves training AI algorithms on huge troves of data using expensive computer chips. The company makes money selling…

The chief executives of Alphabet Inc's Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and top administration officials to discuss key artificial intelligence (AI) issues on Thursday, said a White House official. The invitation seen by Reuters to the CEOs noted President Joe Biden's "expectation that companies like yours must make sure their products are safe before making them available to the public." Concerns about fast-growing AI technology include privacy violations, bias and…

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. The biggest news of the last week (we politely withdraw our Anthropic story from consideration) was the announcement of Bedrock, Amazon’s service that provides a way to build generative AI apps via pretrained models from startups including AI21 Labs, Anthropic and…

Photo: GaudiLab (Shutterstock)Ever since a chatbot called ChatGPT launched last November, artificial intelligence has become the most powerful force in the tech industry.ChatGPT wasn’t just any old chatbot but a hefty, data-trained program, able to engage with users conversationally and spit out immense amounts of knowledge at the drop of a hat. Its creator, the artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, heralded the new technology as a transformative tool that could spur society-wide changes. Now, big companies—from Google to…

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Photo: DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGo launched a beta version of an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT Wednesday called DuckAssist. The addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine uses ChatGPT and Anthropic’s language parsing capability to generate answers scraped from Wikipedia and related sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica. The tool is free and available on the DuckDuckGo web browsing apps for phones and computers as well as the company’s browser extension starting today.“DuckAssist is a new type of Instant…

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Move over ChatGPT, here comes Anthropic’s “Claude.” The latest tech giant to throw money at artificial intelligence is Google, which has invested about $300 million in start-up Anthropic, The Financial Times reported. More specifically, Anthropic is one of small firms working on “generative AI,” or the type of program that can generate images, text, audio and more based on the data it is trained on. Microsoft’s ChatGPT, has gotten the bulk of attention in the arena since its release late last year as its…