Commentary The United States and the world are on the cusp of history’s greatest threat to not only democracy, but to the human agency itself. The dangers now overlap and interact in multiplicative and complexifying ways, including not only the concentration of power in illiberal regimes like China and Russia, but the ability of those…
What Do Bots Think About Marriage?
If you’ve been following news about machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years, you’ve probably heard something about GPT-3. It’s a generative language model—meaning a software tool that can produce texts (sentences, paragraphs, and even full articles) that seem to have been written by humans. It’s easy to use: Just type in any text,…
Biden Administration Blacklists 21 China-Based AI Chipmakers
The Biden administration is adding 22 Chinese chipmakers to a trade blacklist, widening its crackdown on China-based semiconductor manufacturers. The Commerce Department added Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) and 21 “major” Chinese entities working in the domain of artificial intelligence chips to the blacklist. YMTC was added to the list over concerns it could divert…
Biden Administration Blacklists 21 China-Based AI Chip Makers
The Biden administration is adding 22 Chinese chipmakers to a trade blacklist, widening its crackdown on China-based semiconductor manufacturers. The Commerce Department added YMTC and 21 “major” Chinese entities working in the domain of artificial intelligence chips to a trade blacklist, broadening its crackdown on China’s chip industry. YMTC was added to the list over…
‘Like We Just Split the Atom’: ChatGPT AI Shakes Up Tech
The artificial intelligence (AI) hub OpenAI may have made a significant advance in the drive to supplement or replace human wit and wisdom with the machine. Its conversational chatbot “ChatGPT,” launched on Nov. 30, has taken the tech world by storm. By Dec. 5, it had reached 1 million users, as claimed by OpenAI CEO…
British Police Consider Using Data to Predict Future Criminal Activity
The Met Police want to use data to predict which men will commit violent crimes against women or girls, according to its most senior officer. Speaking to the Exceptional Policing conference on Oct. 12, Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley talked about wanting to use behavioural data to make predictions about future crimes which would stop…
Is Google’s AI Chatbot Really Sentient? Sundar Pichai Says ‘The Truth Is …’
Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai touched upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) acquiring sentience in an interview at Vox Media’s Code Conference Tuesday. What Happened Pichai discussed the case of a Google employee who was fired for claiming that the company’s AI chatbot was sentient, reported The Verge. The Google CEO repeated the company’s position that the bot was not sentient and said,…
Google CEO Denies AI Chatbot Is Sentient
Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai touched upon Artificial Intelligence (AI) acquiring sentience in an interview at Vox Media’s Code Conference Tuesday. What Happened Pichai discussed the case of a Google employee who was fired for claiming that the company’s AI chatbot was sentient, reported The Verge. The Google CEO repeated the company’s position that the bot was not sentient and said,…
Taiwan: Piggybacking on the 4th Industrial Revolution for New Military Prowess
Commentary The existential threat to Taiwan is self-apparent, or at least it should be to anyone who has watched how, in recent weeks, China has bracketed the island with missile tests, military exercises, and increasingly hostile incursions by the PLA Air Force. Equally self-evident is Taiwan’s need to beef up its defenses. Besides the usual…
Google Fires Engineer Who Warned Company’s AI Bot Is ‘Sentient’ and Hired an Attorney
Google recently confirmed that it has fired the engineer who claimed the firm’s LaMDA artificial intelligence had become sentient. In a statement on July 22, Google confirmed it terminated engineer Blake Lemoine after he told the Washington Post in June that LaMDA—short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications—had the cognitive ability of a 7- or 8-year-old…
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