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Policymakers and regulators across the world must think of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in the next 5-10 years to prevent misuse of such tools in affecting nation states by politicizing the spread of information, said Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder, Inflection AI and DeepMind.“I think the negative consequences here are likely to arise simply because so many people with different organisational interests, different religious and political values will not only affect information but also the real world in practice.…

Indian founders of venture capital fund Peak XV met Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the undisputed king of advanced chips that are now driving artificial intelligence (AI) applications, at the firm's campus in the Bay Area as part of an AI focused trip. "We're just scratching the surface when it comes to AI," the venture capital fund said in a post on X and Linkedin, posting a conversation its managing director Shailendra J Singh had with Sequoia Capital partner Doug Leone. "AI, like the internet in the 90s, is real, but…

ChatGPT maker OpenAI will continue investing in the developer community in India and will hold several developer summits in the country this year, the company’s chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon said on Saturday.“India has the key ingredients of being one of the world's leaders in AI. It has the largest developer community in the world, with some of the most impressive talent in the field, a track record of developing extraordinary technology businesses and a relentless focus on competing on the world stage," said Kwon…

Last summer, Ohio enacted a social media statute that would require Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube to get a parent's consent before permitting children under age 16 to use their platforms.But in early January, just before the measure was to take effect, a tech industry group called NetChoice - which represents Google, Meta, Snap, TikTok and others - filed a lawsuit to block it on free speech grounds, persuading a federal judge to temporarily halt the new rules.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

WIRED’s request for the documents promised in OpenAI’s IRS filings fell to the counsel for its nonprofit to decide on. Their denial and new policy of withholding those documents extends an existing trend of dwindling openness at a project founded on transparency. OpenAI once published extensive detail about its AI inventions but has more recently guarded the technical details and data behind its most famous tool, ChatGPT. Felix, the company spokesperson, says San Francisco-based OpenAI discloses all the material required…

Photo: Reshetnikov_art / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)Don’t ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot cashiers is an abject failure. Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines, and consensus is growing among analysts and insiders that self-checkout has been a disaster for consumers and retailers alike, according to a new report in the BBC. The machines aren’t disappearing anytime soon, but if nothing else,…

Financial technology startup Carta was hit with a fiery lawsuit by its former chief technology officer, adding to an already chaotic month for the company. Ex-CTO Jerry Talton accused chief executive officer Henry Ward in a suit filed Friday of misusing Carta resources and called Ward “charismatic, but insecure and narcissistic,” also comparing him to Don Corleone from The Godfather.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

She's an important figure behind today's artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up with the idea for a giant visual database called ImageNet that took years to build. Li, now a founding director of Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, is out with a new memoir that recounts her pioneering work in curating the dataset that accelerated the computer vision branch of AI.The book, “The World I See,” also…

Ilya Sutskever, one of the leading AI scientists behind ChatGPT, reflects on his founding vision and values. In conversations with the film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei as he was developing the chat language model between 2016 and 2019, he describes his personal philosophy and makes startling predictions for a technology already shaping our world. Reflecting on his ideas today, amid a global debate over safety and regulation, we consider the opportunities as…

Nearly 7,000 miles away in Portland, Oregon, venture capitalist George Djuric said he was compelled to visit Israel during the country's war with Palestinian militant group Hamas and to pledge support for the high-tech sector.Djuric, chief technology officer at yVentures who arrived in the United States as a 3-year-old refugee from Bosnia during the Bosnian war in the mid-1990s, this week joined some 70 other US tech executives and investors on a trip to Israel.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…