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Should Algorithms Control Nuclear Weapons Launch Codes? The US Says No
Last Thursday, the US State Department outlined a new vision for developing, testing, and verifying military systems—including weapons—that make use…
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Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
Teach a robot to open a door, and it ought to unlock a lifetime of opportunities. Not so for one…
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Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers
Wakeling has been particularly impressed with Harvey’s prowess at translation. It’s strong at mainstream law, but struggles on specific niches,…
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Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
Applying synthetic voices to books also brings new business and cultural challenges. “Most of the companies developing these AI technologies…
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The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research From Elon Musk
two years ago, Twitter launched what is perhaps the tech industry’s most ambitious attempt at algorithmic transparency. Its researchers wrote…
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AI Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
Each evaluation is a window into an AI model, Solaiman says, not a perfect readout of how it will always…
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Roblox Is Bringing Generative AI to Its Gaming Universe
Roblox is testing a tool that could accelerate the process of building and altering in-game objects by getting artificial intelligence to…
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What Chatbot Bloopers Reveal About the Future of AI
What a difference seven days makes in the world of generative AI. Last week Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, was gleefully telling…
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One Startup’s Plan to Help Africa Lure Back Its AI Talent
During a trip home to Johannesburg, South Africa, while completing an engineering master’s program in Japan, Pelonomi Moiloa attended the…
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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money.…
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