• 'That Was Insane!' AI Quadcopter Dethrones Top Human Drone Racers

    'That Was Insane!' AI Quadcopter Dethrones Top Human Drone Racers
    Well, chalk another victory up for the machines. After successfully beating humans in Chess, Go, and a variety of video games, AI has now beaten humanity’s best drone racers. Three world champion drone pilots were recently defeated in a competition by an autonomous, artificial-intelligence-powered drone called Swift.…Read more...
  • A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI

    A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI
    Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models.Read more...
  • Superhuman Speed: How Autonomous Drones Beat the Best Human Racers

    Superhuman Speed: How Autonomous Drones Beat the Best Human Racers
    The drone screams. It’s flying so fast that following it with my camera is hopeless, so I give up and watch in disbelief. The shrieking whine from the four motors of the racing quadrotor Dopplers up and down as the drone twists, turns, and backflips its way through the square plastic gates of the course at a speed that is literally superhuman. I’m cowering behind a safety net, inside a hangar at an airfield just outside of Zurich, along with the drone’s creators from the Robot
  • UK publishers urge Sunak to protect works ingested by AI models

    UK publishers urge Sunak to protect works ingested by AI models
    Publishers Association’s call comes as ChatGPT firm argues US lawsuit ‘misconceives scope’ of copyright lawUK publishers have urged the prime minister to protect authors’ and other content makers’ intellectual property rights as part of a forthcoming summit on artificial intelligence.The intervention came as OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, argued in a legal filing that authors suing the business over its use of their work to train powerful AI systems
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  • US restricts exports of Nvidia AI chips to Middle East

    US restricts exports of Nvidia AI chips to Middle East
    Controls apply to A100 and H100 chips, in escalation of US efforts to curb China’s access to productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe US has expanded the restriction of exports of Nvidia artificial intelligence chips beyond China to some countries in the Middle East.Nvidia, which is one of the world’s most valuable companies at $1.2tn, said in a regulatory filing this week the curbs affected its A100 and H100 chips, which are used to accelerate machine-learning tasks on major
  • Britain must become a leader in AI regulation, say MPs

    Britain must become a leader in AI regulation, say MPs
    Technology committee says UK government approach to artificial intelligence is behind EU and USThe UK should introduce new legislation to control artificial intelligence or risk falling behind the EU and the US in setting the pace for regulating the technology, MPs have said.Rishi Sunak’s government was urged to act as it prepares to host a global AI safety summit at Bletchley Park, home of the Enigma codebreakers, in November. Continue reading...