Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model
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What’s next for OpenAI
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This company is building AI for African languages
Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer and prompted ChatGPT to count from 1 to 10 in isiZulu,…
Text-to-image AI models can be tricked into generating disturbing images
Popular text-to-image AI models can be prompted to ignore their safety filters and generate disturbing images. A group of researchers managed to get both Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s…
Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is one of the hottest topics in tech today. It’s also one of the most controversial. A big part of the problem is that few…
Google DeepMind’s weather AI can forecast extreme weather faster and more accurately
This year the Earth has been hit by a record number of unpredictable extreme weather events made worse by climate change. Predicting them faster and with greater accuracy could enable…
How Facebook went all in on AI
The following is excerpted from BROKEN CODE: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf…
AI is at an inflection point, Fei-Fei Li says
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Noise-canceling headphones could let you pick and choose the sounds you want to hear
This is a subscriber-only story. Future noise-canceling headphones could let users opt back in to certain sounds theyâd like to hear, such as babies crying, birds tweeting, or alarms ringing.…
People shouldn’t pay such a high price for calling out AI harms
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This week everyone is talking about…