Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) In an editorial for Slate published Monday, renowned security researcher Bruce Schneier warned that AI models may enable a new era of mass spying, allowing companies and governments to automate the process of analyzing and summarizing large volumes of conversation data, fundamentally lowering barriers to spying activities that...
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IBM, Meta form “AI Alliance” with 50 organizations to promote open source AI
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, IBM and Meta announced the AI Alliance, an international coalition of over 50 organizations including AMD, Intel, NASA, CERN, and Harvard University that aims to advance “open innovation and open science in AI.” In other words, the goal is to collectively promote alternatives to closed AI...
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(BPRW) FPL SIGNS ON AS AN OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE INAUGURAL FLORIDA BEACH BOWL
(Black PR Wire) Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), America’s largest electric utility, has signed on as one of the sponsors of the first-ever Florida Beach Bowl, an NCAA-sanctioned intercollegiate varsity football…
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How Elon Musk and Larry Page’s AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom
The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.
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Who’s Who Behind the Dawn of the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement
Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I.
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Inside Kick, an Upstart Streaming Competitor to Twitch
The Twitch competitor has doled out generous deals to content creators. It has also faced criticism for its lax moderation and embrace of online gambling.
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TikTok’s C.E.O. Uses Personal Touch to Address Antisemitism Concerns
The company in recent weeks organized several in-person meetings between its top executive and Jewish groups and business leaders.
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1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study
Enlarge / An artist’s impression of a human and a robot talking. (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) In a preprint research paper titled “Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?”, two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see which could trick participants into...
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Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69 billion acquisition
Enlarge (credit: VMWare) Broadcom announced back in May of 2022 that it would buy VMware for $61 billion and take on an additional $8 billion of the company’s debt, and on November 22 of 2023 Broadcom said that it had completed the acquisition. And it looks like Broadcom’s first big move is going to be...
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Judge Halts TikTok Ban in Montana
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been locked in a legal battle with Montana since the state passed the ban in April.