Artificial Intelligence Technologies

After years of companies emphasizing the potential of artificial intelligence, researchers say it is now time to reset expectations.With recent leaps in the technology, companies have developed more systems that can produce seemingly humanlike conversation, poetry and images. Yet AI ethicists and researchers warn that some businesses are exaggerating the capabilities—hype that they say is brewing widespread misunderstanding and distorting policy makers’ views of the power and fallibility of such technology. After years…

Google suspended an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s confidentiality policy after it dismissed his claims. Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -3.04% Google, told the company he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, is a person who…

Graphics-chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA 5.08% gave a muted sales outlook, citing supply-chain disruptions in China and reduced business in Russia, as it posted record sales for the most recent quarter.Nvidia said sales in the current quarter are likely to come in at $8.1 billion, missing Wall Street forecasts. The company said it anticipated a roughly $500 million hit to sales relating to Russia and Covid-19 lockdowns in China. Nvidia’s sales of chips to big server farms…

Anthem Inc.’s chief information officer says he is working with Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud to create a synthetic data platform that will let the health insurance company better detect fraud and offer personalized care to its members. Anil Bhatt said the plan is to use algorithms and statistical models to generate approximately 1.5 to 2 petabytes of synthetic data, including artificially generated data sets of medical…