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 | 29
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 | 39
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
Musicians threaten to make Oasis 'Live Forever' with AI Comment Some things should remain dead Offbeat21 Apr 2023 | 59
Europe doesn't just pass laws on Big Tech algorithms, it sets up cop shops to police them The union doesn't fsck around Software20 Apr 2023 | 11
Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI Updated Boris Eldagsen tells El Reg why he did it AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 57
Predict stocks, foresee public opinion, all kinda possible with ChatGPT-like models Boffins foretell LLMs infiltrating finance and politics with confidently held views AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 13
AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice Updated Bedrock offers APIs for multiple models, plus EC2 instances for home-grown LLMs AI + ML14 Apr 2023 | 2
Don't worry, folks, here comes Chuck Schumer with some ideas about regulating AI As Europe forms task force to steer probes into ChatGPT AI + ML13 Apr 2023 | 20
What if someone mixed The Sims with ChatGPT bots? It would look like this Has science GONE TOO FAR? AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 50
Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads In Brief Plus: Aussie mayor threatens to sue OpenAI; Minors face ChatGPT ban; President Biden on AI AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 13
Turns out people don't like it when they suspect a machine's talking to them Also this just in, people not that into insincere messages AI + ML10 Apr 2023 | 65
Child hit by car among videos 'captured by Tesla vehicles, shared among staff' Intimate, disturbing moments became message board memes, probably Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 52
Of course Facebook will monetize an ad-generating AI Metaverse was plan A, is this plan B or C, or what? AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 9
Corporate investment in AI down for first time in a decade Fewer newly funded startups too, according to report AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 4
Plagiarism-sniffing Turnitin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades Updated Claims 98% confidence, tests suggest a human touch will beat the teachers AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 42
ChatGPT is coming for your jobs – the terrible ones, at least OpenAI tech outperforms digital serfs toiling away on Amazon's estate AI + ML03 Apr 2023 | 20
Google denies Bard trained using OpenAI ChatGPT responses In brief ALSO: Synopsys releases AI tools for faster chip design, and Cerebras open sources family of language models AI + ML03 Apr 2023 | 16
So you want to integrate OpenAI's bot. Here's how that worked for software security scanner Socket Exclusive Hint: Hundreds of malicious npm and PyPI packages spotted Devops30 Mar 2023 | 23
This US national lab turned to AI to hunt rogue nukes All it needs to do is detect ■■■■■■■■■■ in the ■■■■■ at ■■■■■■ when the ■■■■■■■■ AI + ML30 Mar 2023 | 34
Investment bank forecasts LLMs could put 300 million jobs at risk Meanwhile technology-driven job creation is possible, Goldman Sachs says AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 20
Google says it did not train its AI chatbot Bard on your private emails AI In Brief ALSO: Web traffic to Microsoft Bing up 15.8 per cent since launch of GPT-4 bot, and more AI + ML27 Mar 2023 | 24
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 | 41
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 | 18
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 | 25
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 | 18
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 | 158
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