I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly. Nonetheless I’m mostly going to write about AI, because it intersects the techn

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft releases PyRIT red teaming tool to help identify risks in generative AI through automation. February 23, 2024 Microsoft on Thursday announced the release of PyRIT, an

Some people (although very far from all people) are worried that AI will wipe out all value in the universe. Some people, including some of those same people, need practical advice. A Word On Thinking

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AI models, the subject of ongoing safety concerns about harmful and biased output, pose a risk beyond content emission. When wedded with tools that enable automated interaction with other systems, the

Klaus Vedfelt | Digitalvision | Getty Images Cue the George Orwell reference. Depending on where you work, there's a significant chance that artificial intelligence is analyzing your messages on Slack

Photo: PeachY Photograph (Shutterstock) ChatGPT started throwing out “unexpected responses” on Tuesday night according to OpenAI’s status page. Users posted screenshots of their ChatGPT conversations

4 min read·3 days ago Previous major advancements in Computer Science and its applications always felt empowering to me, AI feels different. Dall-E 3, “A drawing of a software engineer overwhelmed by

Within our Unsupervised Learning Community we had an interesting discussion last week. One of our members said—and I’m paraphrasing here: I know I’m supposed to be happy about all this AI innovation,

I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about to change, and I don’t know if it’s about to get a lot darker or a lot brighter. Increasingly this

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Among all the fear, uncertainty and doubt in the wake of generative AI, GitHub has found something that’s surprising: AI is making its developers happier. Software developers have too much to do, said

SAN FRANCISCO — The first time Julian Chavez got laid off from his job as a digital ad sales rep at web.com didn’t turn him off from the tech industry. Neither did the second time when he was laid off

The real problems are under the water. Click for full-size. I just realized something. The reason many people are skeptical of AI’s potential is because they’re confused about what limits human capabi

Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they’re exceptionally good at it. A recent study co-authored by resear

The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT had a diagnostic error rate of more than 80 percent in a new study looking at the use of artificial intelligence in pediatric case diagnosis. F

Doctorow just wrote an uncharacteristically shortsighted essay asking whether there would be anything left over after AI’s bubble bursts. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve had to make rule for my events: The fi

14th December 2023 Dropbox added some new AI features . In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new AI features

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The European Union reached a deal Friday on the world’s first regulations for artificial intelligence (AI), paving the way for legal oversight of the popular technology used in services like OpenAI’s

Where do I start with AI? Is it safe? How do I talk about risk with my stakeholders? These are questions I am asked often these days. While AI is helping developers code faster and be more productive,

L ike most Americans, I like to think of myself as an individual—but a week ago I walked out into a parking lot to find five cars identical in make, model, year, and color to my own. I was glad I reme

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the APEC CEO Summit in San Francisco on Thursday. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) I. Less than two months ago, on stage at the Code Conference, I asked Helen Toner

Last weekend, there was massive drama at the board of OpenAI, the non-profit/company that makes ChatGPT, which has grown from nothing to $1B revenue per year in a matter of months. Sam Altman, the CEO

A lot of people are asking for my thoughts on what happened at OpenAI this weekend. As I’ll explain below, I believe what happened ultimately came down to two opposing philosophies on AI—and specifica

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sam Altman’s surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn’t a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman are still willing to return to OpenAI

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Countless people have written about AI in the past few years. They largely break down into two camps: the lovers and the haters. They’re both wrong. AI is a tool much like a database or a hammer. If y

In July, Buzzfeed published a series of pictures of what Barbie looked like in every country, according to “AI”. They used an image generator – MidJourney – which dutifully produced gross stereotypes

WESTFIELD, N.J. — A student at a New Jersey high school is calling for federal legislation to address AI generated pornographic images after she says photos of her and other female classmates were man

A new study by Apollo Research, an AI safety company, showed how quickly the technology could be co-opted to commit illegal activity, and even trick involved parties into thinking it had done nothing

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Copyright Office is taking public comment on potential new rules around generative AI’s use of copyrighted materials , and the biggest AI companies in th

A hot potato: The rule about being careful what you put on social media appears to be especially relevant for anyone entering the US. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used an AI-powered t