• OpenAI Throws a Paltry $5 Million at Journalism Philanthropy in Attempt to Spur AI-Driven News

    OpenAI Throws a Paltry $5 Million at Journalism Philanthropy in Attempt to Spur AI-Driven News
    OpenAI is on a quest to conquer the world—and it’s doing pretty well on that front. It’sascended to the heights of industry. It’s managed to suck up to politicians in countries scattered across the planet. And now it’s begun a charm offensive aimed at an entirely new sphere of influence: the news media.Read more...
  • Meta and Microsoft Introduce Llama 2 AI and It's Open Source

    Meta and Microsoft Introduce Llama 2 AI and It's Open Source
    As the AI bubble continues to inflate—for better or worse—two titans of the tech industry, Microsoft and Meta, have unveiled the second generation ofLLaMA, and they’re giving competitor OpenAI a run for its money by making it open source.
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  • Meta to make new version of AI model available free of charge on Microsoft

    Meta to make new version of AI model available free of charge on Microsoft
    Move gives start-ups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s BardMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is making a commercial version of its artificial intelligence model freely available, in a move that gives startups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.A new version of a Meta large language model (LLM), called Llama 2, will be distributed by Microsoft through its Azure cloud
  • Meta to make new version of AI model available for free on Microsoft

    Meta to make new version of AI model available for free on Microsoft
    Move gives start-ups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s BardMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is making a commercial version of its artificial intelligence model freely available, in a move that gives start-ups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.A new version of a Meta large language model [LLM], called Llama 2, will be distributed by Microsoft through its Azure clou
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  • DoD Partners Call for Central Database for Training Military AI

    DoD Partners Call for Central Database for Training Military AI
    A tech industry leader and military AI experts testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday said the US Department of Defense urgently needs to streamline its lagging data collection practices if it wants to maintain its lead in the global AI arms. Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who was among three…Read more...
  • Malicious use of AI could cause ‘unimaginable’ damage, says UN boss

    Malicious use of AI could cause ‘unimaginable’ damage, says UN boss
    António Guterres calls for new UN body along the lines of IPCC to tackle threats posed by artificial intelligenceMalicious use of artificial intelligence systems could cause a “horrific” amount of death and destruction, the UN secretary general has said, calling for a new UN body to tackle the threats posed by the technology.António Guterres said harmful use of AI for terrorist, criminal or state purposes could also cause “deep psychological damage”, and he
  • Malicious use of AI could cause huge damage, says UN boss

    Malicious use of AI could cause huge damage, says UN boss
    António Guterres calls for new UN body along the lines of IPCC to tackle threats posed by artificial intelligenceMalicious use of artificial intelligence systems could cause a “horrific” amount of death and destruction, the UN secretary general has said, calling a new UN body to tackle the threats posed by the technology.António Guterres said harmful use of AI for terrorist, criminal or state purposes could also cause “deep psychological damage”, and he said
  • Keir Starmer suggests two-child benefit cap row is example of what taking ‘tough choices’ involves – as it happened

    Keir Starmer suggests two-child benefit cap row is example of what taking ‘tough choices’ involves – as it happened
    Labour leader says party is having row about ‘touch choices’ at the moment during speech at thinktank run by Tony Blair. This live blog is closedLabour MPs are “seething with anger” about Keir Starmer’s decision to say the party would not get rid of the two-child benefit cap, Jeremy Corbyn said this morning.Corbyn, Starmer’s predecessor as leader, told LBC that he had spoken to “quite a lot of Labour MPs” about this issue. He went on:They are seeth
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  • Tell us: are you using AI for emotional connection or support?

    Tell us: are you using AI for emotional connection or support?
    We’d like to hear from people who are developing personal relationships with AI We’d like to find out more about people developing personal relationships with AI.As some turn to chatbot impersonations of lost loved ones, we’d like to find out rather ways that people are using AI for emotional connection or support. What has worked for you and what hasn’t? Continue reading...
  • Ron DeSantis Super PAC Unleashes AI Attack Ad Against Trump

    Ron DeSantis Super PAC Unleashes AI Attack Ad Against Trump
    The GOP infighting continues to rage on as the race for the 2024 presidential bid picks up steam. A super PAC supporting Florida hopeful Ron DeSantis has unleashed a campaign ad that features an AI-generated version of Trump’s voice.
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  • ‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI

    ‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI
    People are turning to chatbot impersonations of lost loved ones to help them grieve. Will AI help us live after we’re dead?When Sunshine Henle’s mother, Linda, died unexpectedly at the age of 72, Henle, a 42-year-old Floridian, was left with what she describes as a “gaping hole of silence” in her life.Even though Linda had lived in New York, where she worked as a Sunday school teacher, the pair had kept in constant contact through phone calls and texting. “I always
  • AI could worsen epidemic of child sexual abuse, warns UK crime agency

    AI could worsen epidemic of child sexual abuse, warns UK crime agency
    NCA estimates one in 50 men poses risk to children as AI threatens to exacerbate radicalising effect of internetArtificial intelligence could further fuel an epidemic of child sexual abuse, Britain’s top law enforcement agency has warned, as it said that one in every 50 men pose a risk to children.The National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates that up to 830,000 adults – 1.6% of the adult population – represent some degree of sexual danger to children, a figure labelled “extra