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Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That's the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks. Their petition published Wednesday is a response to San Francisco startup OpenAI's recent release of GPT-4, a more advanced successor to its widely-used AI…

Last year, Elon Musk changed Twitter’s verified program from a quasi-signal that a user is notable to a pay-for-checkmark $8 free-for-all. Immediately, trolls and comedians seized on the opportunity, making verified fake accounts for politicians, reminding people of Chiquita Banana’s involvement in genocide, and arranging a pretend, but disgusting, conversation between Ben Shapiro and Ted Cruz.The most significant fallout, though, came with a tweet from a user pretending to be drug manufacturer Eli Lily. After the user…

Twitter announced earlier this month that the code it uses to recommend tweets to users will be open source on March 31.Image: Noam Galai (Getty Images), Gil C (Shutterstock)After Twitter caught wind of its source code being leaked on GitHub, the only thing on the company’s mind was revenge. Now, Twitter has an ace up its sleeve as the US District Court for the Northern District of California signed off on a subpoena yesterday.Making the Facebook Papers PublicUnder the terms of the subpoena, GitHub has until April 3 to…

SOPA Images/Getty ImagesInterest in AI has reached unprecedented levels, with new AI applications being made available to the public on an almost daily basis. Only four months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, it unveiled its most capable large language model, GPT-4. A new petition seeks to halt these quick and massive developments and calls for AI labs to pause -- for at least six months -- the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. Also: AI pioneer Cerebras opens up generative AI where OpenAI goes darkThe…

A growing number of high-profile technology entrepreneurs, CEOs, and AI experts aren’t too keen on the acceleration and large-scale deployment of artificial intelligence tools that have been going on lately. In an open letter that has been signed by AI experts and other high-profile names like Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the group has called to “Pause Giant AI Experiments.” The group says that AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity” and that, due to that risk, the development and…

A Florida principal resigned on Tuesday after sending a $100,000 check to an internet scammer posing as Elon Musk. Jan McGee was the principal at the Burns Science and Technology charter school in Oak Hill since the school opened in 2011 and reportedly communicated with the scammer for months before sending the check from the school’s account.The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?McGee said she believed the $100,000 would act as a down payment and in return, the billionaire reportedly promised he would invest…

Several tech executives and top artificial-intelligence researchers, including Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, are calling for a pause in the breakneck development of powerful new AI tools.A moratorium of six months or more would give the industry time to set safety standards for AI design and head off potential harms of the riskiest AI technologies, the proponents of a pause said.  …

A wide-ranging coalition of more than 500 technologists, engineers, and AI ethicists have signed an open letter calling on AI labs to immediately pause all training on any AI systems more powerful than Open AI’s recently released GPT-4 for at least six months. The signatories, which include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and “based AI” developer Elon Musk, warn these advanced new AI models could pose “profound risks to society and humanity,” if allowed to advance without sufficient safeguards. If companies refuse to pause…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been moving at an unbelievable speed in recent months, with the launch of various tools and bots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, and more. Yet this rapid development is causing serious concern among seasoned veterans in the AI field — so much so that over 1,000 of them have signed an open letter calling on AI developers to slam on the brakes. The letter was published on the website of the Future of Life Institute, an organization whose stated mission is “steering transformative…

Recently, the purchase of Twitter has been making headlines as the current boss is trying to maximize its profitability. However, an email that Elon Musk wrote was leaked, where he evaluated the true value of Twitter. What Elon Musk Thinks Twitter is Worth According to Slash Gear, the value of this social networking site has been appraised at a whopping $20 billion. This figure is a far cry from when Musk purchased the company for $44,000 million, and it seems like he is not getting the return he was hoping…