Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI Big Brother wants to watch your big data AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 5
Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else? Comment It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 10
Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student Detection algorithms also fail to distinguish between answers from real people and large language models AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 30
Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something? AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4
Big Tech pumps $235M into AI model depot Hugging Face Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh AI + ML24 Aug 2023 |
Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright 'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20
Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords Offbeat15 Aug 2023 | 79
DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8
Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT Offbeat09 Aug 2023 | 56
TV and film extras fear generative AI will copy their faces and bodies to take their jobs AI in brief Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 17
Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 43
MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes Open source image-massage works … up to a point AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 6
AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian Analysis If you need to trick a computer into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 21
Dell pumps out reference designs, plumps services, to bring AI on-prem Go ahead, spend up big. But be warned: many models 'will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish' AI + ML01 Aug 2023 |
Friendly AI chatbots will be designing bioweapons for criminals 'within years' Watch out, mad scientists – your careers are over AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 20
Intel: Here, have some AI reference kits ... now please buy our silicon With 34 designs to pick from, you can choose your own ML adventure AI + ML25 Jul 2023 | 4
Google fails to get AI engineer lawsuit claiming wrongful termination thrown out AI in brief Plus: Apple is building its own large language models internally, and AI South Park is terrible AI + ML24 Jul 2023 | 18
Fear not, White House chatted to OpenAI and pals, and they promised to make AI safe Nice one, Joe, get those non-binding voluntary pledges in early AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 10
Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is a billion-dollar bet to make AI better at driving than humans More data means better neural net training, but it also means more cores HPC21 Jul 2023 | 43
Judge lets art trio take another crack at suing AI devs over copyright Just the facts, ma'am. More facts, in fact AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 53
IBM sets Watson chips on the AI case as price war kicks off Amazon, Microsoft and VMware make their moves in the game of machines AI + ML13 Jul 2023 | 2
Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency Updated Another kind of supply chain attack that can quietly mess up bots and apps AI + ML11 Jul 2023 | 11
Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT AI in brief Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models AI + ML10 Jul 2023 | 82
Important note: Humans can use AI to make music and still bag a Grammy Organizers change rules as generative ML takes over everything AI + ML05 Jul 2023 | 17
No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT AI in brief Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market AI + ML03 Jul 2023 | 8
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 39
EU launches 4 testbeds to put AI tech through its paces before it goes to market The labs will look at AI and robotics for manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and cities AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 5
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China AI in brief Plus: IBM builds AI commentator for Wimbledon; US regulator dithers on generative AI political ad policy AI + ML26 Jun 2023 | 5
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault +Comment Should you really believe the doomsayers? We're going to go with no AI + ML25 Jun 2023 | 139
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard AI in brief PLUS: Nuance voice AI startup hit with privacy lawsuit in California, and why OpenAI urged Microsoft to hold off releasing Bing Systems19 Jun 2023 | 13
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots We speak to brains behind study into murky world of model teaching AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 47
Euro Parliament green lights its AI safety, privacy law Shoddy predictive systems labeling gender, race, emotion would be verboten AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 15
Meta teaches AI image model to stop generating human fingers like a drunk Picasso Less GPU time, better generated images AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 5
UN boss recommends nuclear option for AI regulation Proposes global brainbox-bossing body based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's blueprint AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 18
Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value' Plans to bulk brainbox workforce by 40,000, months after ejecting 19,000 accountants and HR types AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 26
Surprise! GitHub finds 92% of developers love AI tools We're fine being judged by code, now that we're getting an assist AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 16
This AI hype is enough to drive you to drink, lose sleep Don't take our word – these eggheads claim to have proved it AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 8
Lawyers who cited fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT blame the software AI In Brief Plus: Cohere raises $230m in its latest Series C round, and more AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 27
US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks Suggest that Zuck has yet again unleashed stuff without a thought for the downsides AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 14
About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17 WWDC And makes developer-grade OS betas available to all ducking loyalists OSes07 Jun 2023 | 15
Air Force colonel 'misspoke' when he said an AI-drone 'killed' its human operator AI In Brief Plus: Around 3,900 jobs have been axed and replaced with AI, and Microsoft cosies up with a GPU provider to support OpenAI AI + ML05 Jun 2023 | 18
Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors AI in brief Plus: Anthropic raises $450m in Series C round, and Waymo cozies up to Uber to expand self-driving robotaxi fleet AI + ML29 May 2023 | 80
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes AI + ML26 May 2023 | 16
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models HPC23 May 2023 | 2
Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated tales in nine months In brief Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors AI + ML22 May 2023 | 68
Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them Comment Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong? Systems20 May 2023 | 3
You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest Federal Digital Platform Commission proposed as specialists to sort out the stuff other agencies can't grok AI + ML19 May 2023 | 11
AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs Register Kettle ChatGPT, how many thousands of people should I replace today? AI + ML18 May 2023 | 41
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage' Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27
National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece When Irish AIs are smiling AI + ML16 May 2023 | 43
EU and Canada on waiting list for Google's AI chatbot Bard In brief Also: What deepfake video makers charge; and Anthropic's Claude LLM can now process 100K tokens AI + ML15 May 2023 | 8
IBM launches Watsonx to help enterprises streamline workers out the door Let's face it, Big Blue has plenty of experience in that area AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties? AI + ML09 May 2023 | 25
Study: AI can predict pancreatic cancer three years ahead of human doctors We chat to one of the Harvard Medical School researchers involved AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer Opinion Go, Team Robot AI + ML09 May 2023 | 47
OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit AI + ML03 May 2023 | 91
Ed tech house Chegg's share price halves after blaming ChatGPT for subscription dip Student app maker says it's 'not a sky falling thing,' customizes own LLM just in case AI + ML02 May 2023 | 1
Top Google boffin Hinton quits, warns of AI danger, partly regrets life's work 'Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now. Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That's scary' AI + ML01 May 2023 | 78
ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 9