• Was I wrong to be so bullish about AI? | Brief letters

    Was I wrong to be so bullish about AI? | Brief letters
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    ChatGPT and Dall-E Should Watermark Their Results
    Shortly after rumors leaked of former President Donald Trump’s impending indictment, images purporting to show his arrest appeared online. These images looked like news photos, but they were fake. They were created by a generative artificial intelligence system.
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  • AI has much to offer humanity. It could also wreak terrible harm. It must be controlled | Stuart Russell

    AI has much to offer humanity. It could also wreak terrible harm. It must be controlled | Stuart Russell
    Systems with abilities exceeding human capacity have been let loose. If big tech firms refuse to see the risks governments must step inIn case you have been somewhere else in the solar system, here is a brief AI news update. My apologies if it sounds like the opening paragraph of a bad science fiction novel.On 14 March 2023, OpenAI, a company based in San Francisco and part owned by Microsoft, released an AI system called GPT-4. On 22 March, a report by a distinguished group of researchers at Mi