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OpenAI disbands team devoted to artificial intelligence risks
OpenAI on Friday confirmed that it has disbanded a team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of super-smart artificial intelligence.
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A former OpenAI leader says safety has 'taken a backseat to shiny products' at the AI company
A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has "taken a backseat to shiny products" at the influential artificial intelligence company.
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Q&A: Model disgorgement—the key to fixing AI bias and copyright infringement?
By now, the challenges posed by generative AI are no secret. Models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Meta's Llama have been known to "hallucinate," inventing potentially misleading responses, as well as divulge ...
Computer Sciences
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A new lease on life for old laptops
Researchers in India have developed a tool that can estimate the remaining useful life of an otherwise obsolete laptop computer based on quality grading of two of its main components—hard drive and rechargeable lithium-ion ...
Hardware
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UK watchdog decides not to investigate Microsoft's AI partnership with France's Mistral
British regulators said Friday they don't need to open a competition investigation into Microsoft's partnership with French artificial intelligence company Mistral, a month after asking for industry feedback on the deal.
Business
May 17, 2024
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EU warns Microsoft to give Bing AI risk data or face fines
The EU on Friday told Microsoft to hand over internal documents or face fines as it examines generative AI risks on the company's search engine Bing ahead of elections.
Business
May 17, 2024
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Researchers find LLMs are easy to manipulate into giving harmful information
A team of AI researchers at AWS AI Labs, Amazon, has found that most, if not all, publicly available Large Language Models (LLMs) can be easily tricked into revealing dangerous or unethical information.
Reddit gives OpenAI access to its wealth of posts
OpenAI will have access to Reddit data for training its artificial intelligence models and will put its technology to work on the popular discussion platform, the companies said Thursday.
Business
May 17, 2024
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Generating empathetic machine responses through emotion tracking and constraint guidance
Enabling machines to communicate like humans is a long-term goal of open-domain dialogue generation. To achieve this goal, more and more studies on dialogue generation focus on the key factor, emotion. The empathetic dialogue ...
Computer Sciences
May 16, 2024
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AI-powered noise-filtering headphones give users the power to choose what to hear
Noise-canceling headphones are a godsend for living and working in loud environments. They automatically identify background sounds and cancel them out for much-needed peace and quiet. However, typical noise-canceling fails ...
Consumer & Gadgets
May 16, 2024
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Sarcasm, notoriously difficult to interpret, demystified by multimodal approach
Oscar Wilde once said that sarcasm was the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence. Perhaps that is due to how difficult it is to use and understand. Sarcasm is notoriously tricky to convey through text—even ...
Computer Sciences
May 16, 2024
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US senators unveil 'roadmap' to AI laws
Top US lawmakers on Wednesday said efforts to pass laws governing AI were entering a higher gear and hoped to pump $32 billion into the sector to help assure US dominance.
Machine learning & AI
May 15, 2024
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The future of optimization: How 'Learn to Optimize' is reshaping algorithm design and configuration
Optimization algorithms are pivotal in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in general. For a long time, it has been widely believed that the design/configuration of optimization algorithms is a task that heavily ...
Machine learning & AI
May 15, 2024
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Using AI to improve building energy use and comfort
University of Waterloo researchers have developed a new method that can lead to significant energy savings in buildings. The team identified 28 major heat loss regions in a multi-unit residential building with the most severe ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 15, 2024
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Animal-brain-inspired AI game changer for autonomous robots
A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology has developed a drone that flies autonomously using neuromorphic image processing and control based on the workings of animal brains. Animal brains use less data and ...
Robotics
May 15, 2024
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'Noise' in the machine: Human differences in judgment lead to problems for AI
Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in artificial intelligence systems, racial and gender biases are well documented.
Computer Sciences
May 15, 2024
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Using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language models
Imagine you and a friend are playing a game where your goal is to communicate secret messages to each other using only cryptic sentences. Your friend's job is to guess the secret message behind your sentences. Sometimes, ...
Machine learning & AI
May 15, 2024
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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces departure from ChatGPT maker
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, one of the original creators of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT, said Tuesday he is leaving the company after a nearly decade.
Business
May 15, 2024
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Research team works to improve AI-based decision-making tools for public services
More and more public services—such as affordable housing, public school matching and child welfare—are relying on algorithms to make decisions and allocate resources. So far, much of the work that has gone into designing ...
Business
May 14, 2024
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New tool capable of comparing SLMs and LLMs finds smaller models can reduce cost
Open-source small language models (SLMs) can provide conversational responses that are similar to resource-intensive, proprietary large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, but at a lower cost, researchers at ...
Machine learning & AI
May 14, 2024
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