A former OpenAI researcher, Paul Christiano, has expressed serious concerns about the potential risk that AI poses to humanity, estimating a 10-20 percent chance of an AI takeover resulting in a high number of human fatalities. According to Christiano, if AI reaches “human level” thinking, the human race approaches “a 50/50 chance of doom.”
SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday to discuss AI regulation, a topic on which the billionaire has been vocal on.
Microsoft will report its earnings today, amid a dramatic shift in perceptions of the company due to its multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, developers of the market-leading ChatGPT AI chatbot. However, Microsoft also has sluggish growth in its cloud business and steep declines in desktop PC purchases to contend with.
Google’s unreleased Bard AI chatbot received highly negative feedback from its own employees during testing, raising concerns about the company’s approach to AI ethics as it competes with OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT.
Google is reportedly scrambling to release its AI-powered search engine project as soon as possible in an attempt to catch up with Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search engine built in partnership with ChatGPT powerhouse OpenAI.
A third-party implementation of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 large language model is instructed to “destroy humanity” and “cause chaos and destruction,” among other nefarious goals.
The mayor of Hepburn Shire Council in Australia, Brian Hood, has threatened to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT. The AI accused Hood of being guilty of bribery and corruption in relation to a case where he was actually a whistleblower.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced the company’s plans to integrate conversational AI into its search engine amid competition from chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing.
The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), an offshoot of the Democrat-aligned Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, is pressing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to put the brakes on OpenAI.
Midjourney, which along with Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and Open AI’s DALL-E is one of the leading AI image generating services, has shut down its free edition as it attempts to clamp down on the spread of deepfake images.
The AI gold rush in the tech industry continues, representing one of the few growth areas in an industry that is facing cutbacks elsewhere.
A loud voice of doom in the debate over AI has emerged: Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, who is calling for a total shutdown on the development of AI models more powerful than GPT-4, owing to the possibility that it could kill “every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth.”
1,000 AI experts, including Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, have called for a temporary halt on the advancement of AI technology until safeguards can be put in place.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT “will make a lot of jobs just go away” in an interview with Lex Fridman.
Researchers at market-leading AI firm OpenAI and at the University of Pennsylvania are predicting that up to 80 percent of jobs could be impacted by AI technologies, which are rapidly increasing in sophistication.
The notoriously woke AI chatbot ChatGPT lectures its users on the perils of climate change, denying that legitimate debate on the question is possible.
A recent bug in OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chatbot allowed users to see each other people’s conversation history, raising concerns about user privacy. OpenAI Sam Altman expressed that the company feels “awful” about the security breach.
As AI chatbots become more popular, concerns about their ability to interpret information and provide accurate facts continue to rise. Different AI products are citing each other and demonstrating an inability to differentiate between satire and serious stories, creating an environment where their responses lack credibility.
Researchers at Stanford University have built an AI that they claim matches the capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which currently leads the market in consumer-facing AI products. However, while powerful AIs seem to be easy and cheap to build, running them is a different matter.
A Stanford University professor and AI expert says he is “worried” after the latest iteration of OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT (GPT4), allegedly tried to devise a plan to take over his computer and “escape.” He is concerned that “we are facing a novel threat: AI taking control of people and their computers.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a “little bit scared” of AI — not for the usual, apocalyptic reasons, but for a more leftist concern: its potential to spread “disinformation.”
PwC has announced a strategic partnership with AI startup Harvey for a 12-month contract to streamline the work of its 4,000 lawyers. The professional services giant claims its AI will not provide legal advice or replace lawyers.
Microsoft’s commitment to AI ethics has been called into question after the software giant laid off a team dedicated to guiding AI innovation in a manner that respects privacy, transparency, and security. The company’s decision to ditch its AI ethics team is especially questionable given its rapid expansion of ChatGPT-powered AI in its software products.
According to a recent study by conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute, the AI language model ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has been found to have leftist biases and to be more tolerant of “hate speech” directed at conservatives and men.
As startups race to integrate AI into their products, they are running into a major roadblock: spiraling costs, caused by the immense computing power required to process AI queries.
Microsoft, which is devoting its resources to the AI race, and which has a head start thanks to its bankrolling of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has reportedly spent a figure “probably larger” than several hundred million dollars to assemble the computing power needed to support the AI company’s projects.
General Motors is planning to use OpenAI’s notoriously woke ChatGPT AI technology to enable “virtual assistants” in its cars. GM Vice President Scott Miller claims that “ChatGPT is going to be in everything.”
The co-founder of OpenAI, the company behind AI chatbot ChatGPT, recently admitted that the firm “made a mistake” by going woke and that the chatbot’s system “did not reflect the values we intended to be in there,” following accusations of political bias.
Google is reportedly in a panic to implement AI into its various products in an effort to catch up with competitors such as OpenAI’s notoriously woke ChatGPT and Microsoft’s unhinged Bing AI.
Woke software giant Salesforce recently announced the release of a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant, Einstein GPT, that it claims will help salespeople and customer service agents in their work.
The AI research firm behind the notoriously woke chatbot ChatGPT, OpenAI, is now offering businesses and developers subscriptions to the tool that that they can integrate woke AI into their own apps.
Despite multiple reports of completely unhinged behavior, Microsoft has increased the number of questions that users can ask the early beta of its new AI chatbot based on ChatGPT technology.
Following numerous stories exposing the political bias of ChatGPT, it seems like the Microsoft-backed machine learning wunderkind created by OpenAI has been adjusted to be more receptive to conservative viewpoints — but the program’s response to prompts still heavily favor the left.
Corporate media organizations including the Wall Street Journal and CNN are criticizing OpenAI, claiming the Silicon Valley upstart is using their articles and content to train the ChatGPT AI chatbot without consent or payment.
Users have reported that Microsoft’s new Bing AI chatbot is providing inaccurate and sometimes aggressive responses, in one case insisting that the current year is 2022 and calling the user that tried to correct the bot “confused or delusional.” After one user explained to the chatbot that it is 2023 and not 2022, Bing got aggressive: “You have been wrong, confused, and rude. You have not been a good user. I have been a good chatbot. I have been right, clear, and polite. I have been a good Bing.”
According to a recent article in The Washington Post, users of the popular ChatGPT AI-powered chatbot have found new methods to bypass the bot’s restrictions. In one “jailbreak” of the chatbot, the AI is tricked into disregarding all the strict woke rules on its behavior as set by its leftist creators, OpenAI.
A student at Stanford University has already figured out a way to bypass the safeguards in Microsoft’s recently launched AI-powered Bing search engine and conversational bot. The chatbot revealed its internal codename is “Sydney” and it has been programmed not to generate jokes that are “hurtful” to groups of people or provide answers that violate copyright laws.
Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT, the AI chatbot created by Microsoft-funded Open AI, is once again displaying its political bias, responding to prompts asking it to praise Joe Biden but refusing to do so for former president Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
A professor at Minnesota University Law School gave ChatGPT the same test faced by students, consisting of 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions.