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Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without permission, harbor nasty biases,...

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

Mustafa Suleyman was at the center of an artificial intelligence revolution once before.As a cofounder of DeepMind, a British company acquired by Google in 2014, he helped devise a new way for...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona

Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for a friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way out of the Recycle Bin. The...

Meta Releases Llama 3.2—and Gives Its AI a Voice

Mark Zuckerberg announced today that Meta, his social-media-turned-metaverse-turned-artificial intelligence conglomerate, will upgrade its AI assistants to give them a range of celebrity voices, including those of Dame Judi Dench and John Cena....

The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents

The most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful chores on your computers for you.Released...

The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change

A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for monitoring and governing artificial intelligence.The report, produced by the UN secretary general’s High Level...

Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset

When Palmer Luckey was hacking together virtual reality headsets at his startup Oculus VR in the mid-2010s, he would sometimes imagine a future in which US soldiers used the technology to sharpen...

OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step

OpenAI made the last big breakthrough in artificial intelligence by increasing the size of its models to dizzying proportions, when it introduced GPT-4 last year. The company today announced a new advance...

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