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The move will bring the artificial intelligence chatbot closer to popular voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s AlexaOpenAI’s ChatGPT is getting a major update that will enable the viral chatbot to have voice conversations with users and interact using images, moving it closer to popular artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Apple’s Siri.The voice feature “opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications”, OpenAI said in

Technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, hopes safety summit will help to establish early warning signs in technologyA “smoke alarm” for dangerous artificial intelligence systems is needed in order to head off a range of serious threats such as mass loss of life, cyber-attacks and AI technology spiralling out of control, UK ministers have warned.The technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, said she hoped a forthcoming safety summit hosted in the UK would help to establish an early warn

Technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, hopes safety summit will help to establish early warning signs in technologyA “smoke alarm” for dangerous artificial intelligence systems is needed in order to head off a range of serious threats such as mass loss of life, cyber-attacks and AI technology spiralling out of control, ministers have warned.Technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, said she hoped a forthcoming safety summit hosted in the UK would help to establish an early warning sys

Police submit dossier about images allegedly spread on social media in Almendralejo by teenagers aged 13 to 15A Spanish prosecutor’s office has said it will investigate whether AI-generated images of naked teenage girls, allegedly created and shared by their peers in south-western Spain, constituted a crime.The rise in use by children of such technologies has sparked concern among parents worldwide. The FBI warned in June that criminals were increasingly using artificial intelligence to cr

Tech company plays catch-up after Microsoft’s deal with ChatGPT developer in JanuaryAmazon is to invest up to $4bn (£3.2bn) in the startup Anthropic, which has created a rival to ChatGPT called Claude, as the Silicon Valley giant seeks to keep pace with rivals including Microsoft and Google in the race to dominate the artificial intelligence space.Under the terms of the deal Amazon will invest an initial $1.25bn into Anthropic, which was founded about two years ago by former research

At global summit in UK, Rishi Sunak will highlight risk of criminals and terrorists using technology to make bioweaponsConcerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of world leaders, as concern grows in Downing Street about the power of the next generation of technological advances.British officials are touring the world ahead of an AI safety summit in Bletchley Park in November as they look to build consens

Rishi Sunak to highlight risk criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence when he attends global safety summitExperts disagree over threat posed but artificial intelligence cannot be ignoredConcerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of world leaders, as concern grows in Downing Street about the power of the next generation of technological advances.British officials are touring the world ahe

Some say the existential dangers of a ‘God-like’ AI is overplayed but even then there are other impacts to be wary ofFor some AI experts, a watershed moment in artificial intelligence development is not far away. And the global AI safety summit, to be held at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire in November, therefore cannot come soon enough.Ian Hogarth, the chair of the UK taskforce charged with scrutinising the safety of cutting-edge AI, raised concerns before he took the job this yea