We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 2
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 8
Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting AI + ML22 Mar 2023 |
Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care The hope? Reducing piles of admin for clinicians freeing them up for medical work AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 19
Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 16
OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes In brief ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more AI + ML20 Mar 2023 | 19
'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint Human lawyers: 'DoNotPay is not actually a robot, a lawyer, nor a law firm' AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 15
Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder Feature Why do experiments and all that work when a model could just invent convincing data for you? AI + ML11 Mar 2023 | 33
Brit newspaper giant fills space with AI-assisted articles That's a bit of a Reach AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 98
SETI: How AI-boosted satellites, robots could help search for life on other planets Software scans to give rovers a clue AI + ML07 Mar 2023 | 8
Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot In brief Plus: OpenAI says it won't train on customer data, and Microsoft rolls out new Bing AI modes AI + ML06 Mar 2023 | 157
Microsoft strokes UK's ego by pooh-poohing EU approach to AI regulation Representative even given opportunity to pitch tech to government during science committee hearing AI + ML24 Feb 2023 | 38
I can't do that, Dave: AI drowns top sci-fi mag with story submissions Any sufficiently advanced chatbot is indistinguishable from spam AI + ML22 Feb 2023 | 67
Humans strike back at Go-playing AI systems Amateur fleshbag defeats synthetic in 14 of 15 games AI + ML20 Feb 2023 | 43
Gen Z lingo and search engines: A Millennial Odyssey Comment Alternative headline: The best use for nu-Bing Microsoft CTO could conjure was translating his daughter's slang Offbeat16 Feb 2023 | 60
This app could block text-to-image AI models from ripping off artists Free software looming to fend off paintbrush-armed robots AI + ML16 Feb 2023 | 63
Satya Nadella wants to make Google dance in battle for AI chat-powered web search In brief Plus: Publisher using AI tools generated false health advice for men; how ChatGPT widens economic inequalities AI + ML13 Feb 2023 | 8
Microsoft's AI habit comes to data governance tool Purview You're a high-risk worker who wants access to that file? Computer says no Applications07 Feb 2023 | 3
Twitch bans AI-generated Seinfeld show for making transphobic jokes Video 'The text we generated was a mistake, we are super embarrassed' AI + ML07 Feb 2023 | 29
Google to present AI-powered search features next week in live event In brief Plus: Cruise and Waymo's driverless cars have caused 92 reported incidents in San Francisco; China's Baidu reportedly set to launch ChatGPT rival AI + ML06 Feb 2023 | 16
It's your human hubris holding back AI acceptance Boffins find Dunning-Kruger effect makes us think we know better AI + ML03 Feb 2023 | 52
Generative AI is out of control: Nothing, Forever is a Seinfeld spoof about nothing... forever Updated It's... actually kind of funny, though* AI + ML03 Feb 2023 | 34
GPT-4 could pop up in Bing, as Google races to build chatbot search products Plus: ChatGPT Plus now available for $20 a month in the US AI + ML02 Feb 2023 | 13
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide SaaS02 Feb 2023 | 61
Scientists develop AI algorithms to hunt for cancer-fighting antibodies System identified a candidate that appears more effective than FDA-approved drugs AI + ML02 Feb 2023 | 3
Boffins deploy machine learning in search for intelligent ET Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 13
Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time In brief Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 27
Microsoft can't stop itself blowing billions on OpenAI Embrace, extend ... extinguish, but whom or what this time? AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 9
Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 24
Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe In brief Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 12
Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text Spare a thought for the workers who read the worst content scraped from the internet to keep you safe AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 16
OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence No principles or virtues, people accepting everything it says – this bot is perfect for political life AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 85
Adobe: Take user data to train generative AI models? We'd never do that Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 13
Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories Worse still, human editors appear not to have caught the mistakes AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 41
Will 2023 be the year of dynamite disinfo deepfakes, cooked up by rogue states? And if so, what are we gonna do about it? AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 16
Writing tool from AI21 Labs won't do all the hard work for you Wordtune Spices is more like an AI-powered Grammarly AI + ML17 Jan 2023 | 2
Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art Updated Lawyer known for GitHub Copilot case to argue artists' legal struggle AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 59
AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court, startup claims In Brief Plus: How much would you pay for ChatGPT? And British AI drug biz gets snapped up for half a billion AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 26
Homeland Security, CISA builds AI-based cybersecurity analytics sandbox High-spec system is crucial to defending against the latest threats Government Tech Week10 Jan 2023 | 5
OpenAI is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT In brief Plus: Apple using fake AI voices to help indie publishers release audiobooks AI + ML09 Jan 2023 | 32
Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code Chatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 67
Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 1
PyTorch dependency poisoned with malicious code System data was exfiltrated during attack, but an anonymous person says it was a research project gone wrong Security04 Jan 2023 | 22
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what? Feature Teachers need to work harder to get students to write and think for themselves AI + ML27 Dec 2022 | 144
Alphabet reshuffles to meet ChatGPT threat In brief Plus: ArtStation cracks down on rebellious creators and lame-duck AI laws in the US on the cards AI + ML25 Dec 2022 | 70
Since humans can't manage fusion, the US puts millions into AI-powered creation Some terms and condition may apply AI + ML23 Dec 2022 | 66
OpenAI gets to the Point•E with open source text-to-3D model Designers' jobs to crash or GLIDE AI + ML21 Dec 2022 |
OpenAI predicts biz can break a billion in revs by 2024 In Brief Plus: Suomi security warnings and artists rebel against AI on Artstation AI + ML19 Dec 2022 | 6
Top tip: If you want more of that VC money, stick some AI in your chips Analysis Helps if you're teetering on the edge AI + ML16 Dec 2022 | 3
XaaS is taking over the datacenter and IDC says you asked for it Comment As customers grapple with pricey AI systems and nontraditional compute, HPE, Dell, and Lenovo circle in wait On-Prem14 Dec 2022 | 5
Apple taps brake on self-driving cars, now aims for 2026 In brief Plus: ChatGPT behaving like a virtual machine, Cohere launches multi-lingual large language model AI + ML13 Dec 2022 | 26
GitHub adds admin controls to Copilot, paints 'Business' on the side, doubles price Ah, the enterprise way AI + ML09 Dec 2022 | 22
OpenAI opens doors to ChatGPT, another AI to fill the world with kinda-true stuff In brief Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego AI + ML03 Dec 2022 | 26
Google frees nifty ML image-compression model... but it's for JPEG-XL Yep. The very same JPEG-XL that's just been axed from Chromium AI + ML02 Dec 2022 | 38
Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor The reason your morning drive sucks is because of you, the impulsive human behind the wheel AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 59
Meta's Cicero chatbot can probably beat you at Diplomacy AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 13
AI analysis of dinosaur tracks suggests 'predator' may have been a herbivore Human scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way Science16 Nov 2022 | 22
Robotics startup wants to disrupt walking with AI roller skates For when millions of years of evolution and timekeeping are not good enough Offbeat14 Nov 2022 | 24
Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL? In brief Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator AI + ML12 Nov 2022 | 81
OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot In brief Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more AI + ML07 Nov 2022 | 10
Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 11