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What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton Into an AI Doomer
“A lot of the headlines have been saying that I think it should be stopped now—and I’ve never said that,”…
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The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning | WIRED
By the end of April, the European Parliament had zeroed in on a list of practices to be prohibited: social…
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Doctors Behind Mifepristone Ban Called ‘Christians’ a Top Threat
In a declaration in federal court in 2021, Quentin Van Meter, the president of the American College of Pediatricians, described…
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Gary Marcus Used to Call AI Stupid—Now He Calls It Dangerous
Back then–only months ago—Marcus’ quibbling was technical. But now that large language models have become a global phenomenon, his focus…
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The Seabed Empire Funding Britain’s New King | WIRED
In 2019, a partnership between BP and German energy provider ENBW agreed to pay £231 million ($290 million) in annual option…
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These ChatGPT Rivals Are Designed to Play With Your Emotions
ChatGPT and its brethren are both surprisingly clever and disappointingly dumb. Sure, they can generate pretty poems, solve scientific puzzles, and debug…
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LinkedIn Turns 20. Its Next Career Move: A Big AI Push
In 2009, LinkedIn’s new engineering chief, David Henke, assembled his full crew of coders and managers for the first time…
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Joe Biden Wants Hackers’ Help to Keep AI Chatbots In Check
ChatGPT has stoked new hopes about the potential of artificial intelligence—but also new fears. Today the White House joined the…
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Google Is Letting You Claim a .Dad Dedicated Domain. Cue the Dad Jokes
Why wasn’t Google’s new top-level domain empathetic when listening to other people’s problems? Because it considered itself to be domain character…
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Twitter Really Is Worse Than Ever
Data collected by CyberWell found that though only 2 percent of anti-Semitism content on social media platforms in 2022 was violent,…
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