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Get Ready for ChatGPT-Style AI Chatbots That Do Your Boring Chores

A couple of weeks ago, startup CEO Flo Crivello typed a message asking his personal assistant Lindy to change the length of an upcoming meeting from 30 to 45 minutes. Lindy, a...

Don’t Count on Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer to Jump-Start an AI Revolution

You’d have to be pretty brave to bet against the idea that applying more computing power and data to machine learning—a recipe that birthed ChatGPT—won’t lead to further advances of some kind...

The Generative AI Boom Could Fuel a New International Arms Race

Governments around the world are rushing to embrace the algorithms that breathed some semblance of intelligence into ChatGPT, apparently enthralled by the enormous economic payoff expected from the technology.Two new reports out...

It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine

In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration. Each prompted a curt but well-crafted rebuttal from an...

The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI

ChatGPT made it possible for anyone to play with powerful artificial intelligence, but the inner workings of the world-famous chatbot remain a closely guarded secret.In recent months, however, efforts to make AI...

Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2

When Meta released Llama 2, a powerful artificial intelligence model similar to the one behind ChatGPT, last month, it made it possible for developers, startups, and researchers to play with the kind...

Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X

ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster.Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington discovered a...

A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers

This March, nearly 35,000 AI researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and concerned citizens signed an open letter from the nonprofit Future of Life Institute that called for a “pause” on AI development, due to...

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