• Elon Musk targets Microsoft in expanded OpenAI lawsuit

    Elon Musk targets Microsoft in expanded OpenAI lawsuit
    Billionaire alleges Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize AI market and sideline competitorsElon Musk has expanded his lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and adding OpenAI’s largest financial backer, Microsoft, as a defendant.Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed on Thursday night in federal court in Oakland, California, said Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence and
  • Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road

    Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCEHumanoids Summit: 11–12 December 2024, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAEnjoy today’s videos! Don’t get me wrong, this is super impressive, but I’m like 95% sure that there’s a human dri
  • ‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event

    ‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event
    Humanoid called Digit fuelled boosterism at Web Summit, but also raised concerns about jobs, safety and climateThis year’s Web Summit, in Lisbon, was all about artificial intelligence – and a robot sorting laundry.Digit, a humanoid built by the US firm Agility Robotics, demonstrated how far AI has come in a few years by responding to voice commands – filtered through Google’s Gemini AI model – to sift through a pile of coloured T-shirts and place them in a basket. C
  • AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit

    AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit
    Artificial intelligence doesn’t just incrementally erode the rights of authors and other creators. These technologies are designed to replace creative workers altogetherGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailBack in 2022, when ChatGPT arrived, I was part of the first wave of users. Delighted but also a little uncertain what to do with it, I asked the system to generate all kinds of random things. A song about George Floyd in the style of Bob Dylan. A menu for a vegetarian dinner party.
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