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Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.Spotify recently purged tens of thousands of AI-generated songs from its vast digital music library. The problem doesn’t appear to have been the songs themselves. Instead, Spotify was concerned about the listeners—who, as it turns out, were also generated

In industry, it’s pretty common for robots to be sold as a service. That is, rather than buying the robot and managing it yourself, you instead rent the service that the robot provides. This service includes renting the robot itself, but it also includes stuff like installation, maintenance, repairs, tech support, software updates, and all of that good stuff that you’d otherwise have to worry about separately. This is a good model for companies who want a robot to do useful things fo

Labour’s election gains | Keir Starmer | Loathsome letterboxes | AI chatbots | Creating a monsterYour report on the local elections (8 May) says that the Labour party has “banished the demons of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn’s time as leader” and that voters are returning to the fold, on less than a 40% turnout. As a Labour-voting remainer, can someone tell me what the “demons of Brexit” are?Dr Mark WilcoxHolmfirth, West Yorkshire• It’s unfair of other p

Too much discourse focuses on whether AIs are the end of society or the end of human suffering – I’m more interested in the middle groundDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhat if AI doesn’t fundamentally reshape civilisation?This week, I spoke to Geoffrey Hinton, the English psychologist-turned-computer scientist whose work on neural networks in the 1980s set the stage for the explosion in AI capabilities over the last decade. Hinton wanted to speak

Too much discourse focuses on whether AIs are the end of society or the end of human suffering – I’m more interested in the middle groundDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhat if AI doesn’t fundamentally reshape civilisation?This week, I spoke to Geoffrey Hinton, the English psychologist-turned-computer scientist whose work on neural networks in the 1980s set the stage for the explosion in AI capabilities over the last decade. Hinton wanted to speak

Steve Wozniak says content created with artificial intelligence should belabelled and calls for regulationApple co-founder Steve Wozniak has warned that artificial intelligence could be used by “bad actors” and make it harder to spot scams and misinformation.Wozniak, who was one of Apple’s co-founders with the late Steve Jobs and invented the company’s first computer, said AI content should be clearly labelled, and called for regulation for the sector. Continue reading...

His work is at heart of AI revolution, but in an interview with the Guardian’s Alex Hern, Hinton says he now fears the advances he helped usher in could pose an existential threat to humankindThe 75-year-old’s researcher has helped lay the foundations for the revolution in artificial intelligence, but now Geoffrey Hinton is worried. His work on neural networking – building computer systems that can learn from data and experience – has been at the heart of recent advanceme