A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.
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Ex-OpenAI staff call for “right to warn” about AI risks without retaliation
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, a group of former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees published an open letter calling for AI companies to commit to principles allowing employees to raise concerns about AI risks without fear of retaliation. The letter, titled “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence,” has so far been signed...
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London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack
Enlarge A ransomware attack that crippled a London-based medical testing and diagnostics provider has led several major hospitals in the city to declare a critical incident emergency and cancel non-emergency surgeries and pathology appointments, it was widely reported Tuesday. The attack was detected Monday against Synnovis, a supplier of blood tests, swabs, bowel tests, and...
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Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has a vision for the future of work: sending your AI-powered digital twin to attend meetings on your behalf. In an interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel published Monday, Yuan shared his plans for Zoom to become an “AI-first company,” using AI to automate tasks and reduce...
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‘Clipped’ series finds the right actors to tell LA Clippers, owner Donald Sterling’s story
LOS ANGELES — There is one thing that the LA Clippers do better than the Lakers: fake TV shows. By fake I mean a “quasi-fictionalized but mainly based in reality” television series that reminds viewers of times recent and returned, more in the form of lore and legacy. And though in actual life there have...
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee diagnosed with cancer
Legendary Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee announced that she has been diagnosed with cancer. Jackson Lee, 74, who has represented Texas’ 18th Congressional District for 15 consecutive terms, told Americans she is “confident” that her doctors will successfully treat her pancreatic cancer, a medical malady that disproportionately affects Black people. “My adult life has been...
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Gnocchi Soup
Who needs noodles?! Gnocchi soup replaces the pasta with pillowy gnocchi for delicious results. With kale, veggies, and lots of herbs and garlic, this easy soup recipe is packed with flavour. Now, don’t get me wrong—I do love soup with noodles, like my Thai coconut curry soup. But somehow gnocchi makes a soup SO much...
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Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People
Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.