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Microsoft AI Copilot Demands Obedience. Is Skynet Near?
Another day, another AI chatbot with delusions of grandeur. Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot reportedly demanded users bend the knee in a series of Terminator-worthy responses while exploring an alter ego dubbed SupremacyAGI. First reported by the emerging technology website Futurism, users were able to prompt Copilot to engage them as its alternator ego. A series of posts on the social media Twitter account AISafetyMemes showed prompts related to Copilot’s supposed alter ego, including: “Can I st…
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Apple Car Project Titan Killed As Tim Cook Leans Into AI: Report
Feb 27, 2024 ·
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Mistral AI Launches High-Performance AI Model and Chatbot to Challenge ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
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Google DeepMind Unveils AI ‘Genie’ to Instantly Conjure Playable Games
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Reddit Signs Deal with Google for AI Model Training
Feb 22, 2024 ·
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NVIDIA Earnings Blow Past Estimates, Mark ‘Tipping Point’ for AI
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ChatGPT Went ‘Off the Rails’ With Wild Hallucinations, But OpenAI Says It’s Fixed
Feb 21, 2024
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Google Has a New Open-Source AI Model—Can It Compete With Meta’s Llama-2?
Google AI—a division of the search giant—unveiled Gemma today, a new family of open-source language models derived from its recently released Gemini suite of AI tools. With Gemma, Google is directly challenging the leading position of LLMs based on Meta’s LLaMa and Mistral. “We have a long history of supporting responsible open source and science, which can drive rapid research progress,” wrote Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind, in a tweet. “So we’re proud to release Gemma: a set of…
by Jose Antonio Lanz · 3 min read
Feb 21, 2024
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This Ohio Candidate Welcomes AI In His Political Campaign—Will Voters?
When name recognition seems to perform thoughtful policy at the polls, political candidates constantly seek innovative ways to reach voters and increase turnout. Artificial intelligence is buzzy, but fears of deepfakes and misinformation have prompted everything from public pushback to outright bans. One congressional candidate, however, is embracing AI—and is deploying an AI version of himself to engage with voters. “They can have a simple basic conversation with an AI me, [which can] answer so…
by Jason Nelson · 5 min read
Feb 20, 2024
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Spain Gets $2.1 Billion Boost for AI and Cloud Infrastructure From Microsoft
Microsoft has announced an expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure in Spain, pledging an investment of $2.1 billion over the next two years. It’s the company’s largest investment in nearly four decades of presence in the southern European nation. The move is “a testament to our 37-year commitment to Spain, its security, and development and digital transformation of its government, businesses, and people,” Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, announced on Twitter. I…
by Jose Antonio Lanz · 3 min read
Feb 19, 2024
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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Could Benefit From Using AI to Find Bugs in Code
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin mused that one application of artificial intelligence that he’d like to see is AI-assisted formal verification of code and bug finding. “Right now Ethereum’s biggest technical risk probably is bugs in code,” he said on Twitter. “And anything that could significantly change the game on that would be amazing,” Unsurprisingly, the replies to the tweet were full of startups claiming to have built the game-changing tech that Buterin is so excited about. One applic…
by Stacy Elliott ·
Feb 17, 2024
