Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”
Category: Business / Artificial Intelligence
What OpenAI Really Wants
The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything. Yes. Everything.
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse
A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.
Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s Answer to OpenAI
The European Union is desperate for its own artificial intelligence giant. German startup Aleph Alpha might be its best hope.
It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
A developer used widely available AI tools to generate anti-Russian tweets and articles. The project is intended to highlight how cheap and easy it has become to create propaganda at scale.
The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI
A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways.
Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT
Teachers are caught between cracking down on cheating with generative AI and using it to help empower students. It’s going to be a challenging year.
A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren’t Actually AI Doomers
In March a viral letter called for a pause on AI development, warning that algorithms could outsmart humanity—but many experts who signed on did not believe the technology poses an existential risk.
The World Isn’t Ready for the Next Decade of AI
Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, talks about how AI and other technologies will take over everything—and possibly threaten the very structure of the nation-state.
This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
Thousands of security experts, hackers, and college students competed to trick powerful text-generation systems into revealing their dark sides at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.