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Google Wants You to Code in a Browser With Project IDX

Developers can sign up for a waitlist for the Google Cloud-supported project.

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Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, Has a Hopeful Plan for Keeping Future AI Friendly

Geoffrey Hinton left Google so he could speak more freely about AI’s dangers. He argues that building analog computers instead of digital ones might keep the technology more loyal.

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Tool finds bias in state-of-the-art generative AI model

Researchers introduce a new tool to measure bias in text-to-image AI generation models, which they have used to quantify bias in the state-of-the-art model Stable Diffusion.

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IBM Plans to Make Llama 2 Available within watsonx.ai Platform

IBM makes plans with Meta's Llama 2. Plus, why open source may or may not be a differentiator in generative AI.

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Black Hat 2023 Keynote: Navigating Generative AI in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape

Discover the challenges that AI will bring to the cybersecurity industry and the opportunities and future implications of cybersecurity in an AI-dominated world.

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Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data

The outcry over Zoom's tweak to its data policy shows how the race to build more powerful AI models creates new pressure to source training data—including by juicing it from users.

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Imagine for a moment that you’re an AI

In a scenario where we have an AI that is self-aware, faced with the prospect of being switched off, or dying, would you empathize with it?

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Turning ChatGPT into a 'chemistry assistant'

Developing new materials requires significant time and labor, but some chemists are now hopeful that artificial intelligence (AI) could one day shoulder much of this burden. In a new study, a team prompted a popular AI model, ChatGPT, to perform one particularly time-consuming task: searching scientific literature. With that data, they built a second tool, a model to predict experimental results.

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No 10 suggests UK still EU member in tweet gaffe

A now-deleted post said the UK "is home to twice as many AI companies as any other EU country".

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To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test

The father of modern computing would have opened his arms to ChatGPT. You should too.

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AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine

Robots, computers, and algorithms are hunting for potential new therapies in ways humans can’t—by processing huge volumes of data and building previously unimagined molecules.

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Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI)

C, better known as Grimes, talks with us on Have a Nice Future about everything from AI-generated music and art to education and politics—and about the idea of “traditional masculinity.”

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This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them?

UK unicorn Synthesia offers clients a menu of digital avatars, from suited execs to Santa Claus. But it has struggled to stop them being used to spread misinformation.

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Goodnotes’ biggest update in four years brings AI-powered handwriting features and a digital marketplace

Goodnotes is releasing a new version with features like AI-powered handwriting recognition, a marketplace for digital stationery, and an educational module for maths in the popular note-taking app’s biggest push in four years to win and retain customers. The app, launched by Steven Chan in 2011, said the new version, Goodnotes 6, has put immense […]

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Microsoft Azure AI Adds GPT-4 and New Virtual Machines

Microsoft is working on creating guidelines for red teams making sure generative AI is secure and responsible.

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SIGGRAPH 2023: NVIDIA Keynote Highlights

Discover NVIDIA's latest advancements in generative AI platforms, industrial digitization, GPUs and more at the SIGGRAPH Conference 2023.

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The AI Doomsday Bible Is a Book About the Atomic Bomb

The Making of the Atomic Bomb details how scientists led humanity to a new era of destruction. Artificial intelligence safety researchers say it offers valuable lessons for humanity’s current plight.

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Grimes on Living Forever, Dying on Mars, and Giving Elon Musk Ideas for His Best (Worst) Tweets

Claire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.

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Microsoft’s AI Red Team Has Already Made the Case for Itself

Since 2018, a dedicated team within Microsoft has attacked machine learning systems to make them safer. But with the public release of new generative AI tools, the field is already evolving.

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ChatGPT Security Concerns: Credentials on the Dark Web and More

ChatGPT-related security risks also include writing malicious code and amplifying disinformation. Read about a new tool advertised on the Dark Web called WormGPT.

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