Artificial Intelligence news

Historian and Sapiens author says sophistication of technology makes it difficult to forecast its dangers Artificial intelligence could cause a financial crisis with “catastrophic” consequences, according to the historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, who says the technology’s sophistication makes forecasting its dangers difficult.Harari told the Guardian a concern about safety testing AI models was foreseeing all the problems that a powerful system could cause. Unlike with nuc

Reports come weeks after US blocked Nvidia from selling two high-end AI chips and a top gaming chip to Chinese firmsNvidia is planning to release three new chips for China, according to local media reports, weeks after the US blocked it from selling two high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips and one of its top gaming chips to Chinese firms.Nvidia could announce the chips – the HGX H20, L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe – as soon as 16 November, the Star Market Daily news outlet reported, cit

Harmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with ‘beasts of burden’ and denigrating right to strikeBT’s technology chief, Harmeen Mehta, has suggested workers whose jobs are threatened by AI accept their fate as “evolution”, comparing them to horses replaced by the car.In an interview with the business website Raconteur, Mehta said: “I don‘t know how horses felt when the car was invented, but they didn’t complain that they were put out of a