Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content Boffins and machines write very differently – and it's easy to tell AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 2
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 | 4
Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco Deadly accident said to be unavoidable AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 21
Search engines don't always help chatbots generate accurate answers Research shows developers have to find new ways to manipulate information for AI AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 5
AI needs a regulatory ecoystem like your car, not a Czar No single entity tells you to stay in your lane, why should brainboxes be any different? AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 8
Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records The doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now. Then see another patient quickly because they don't have to stop and scrawl notes AI + ML06 Jun 2023 | 36
Netherlands digital minister smacks down Big Tech over AI regs Many people die in car crashes but we don’t outlaw cars, so bad AI might be OK, says Microsoft Asia president AI + ML06 Jun 2023 | 20
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
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation' Final update Did ML-powered fighter actually go HAL 9000 to rack up points? Who knows AI + ML02 Jun 2023 | 126
Amazon finds something else AI can supposedly do well: Spotting damaged goods Any chance of an ML model to identify labor law violations? No? Surprise AI + ML02 Jun 2023 | 20
California rolls closer to requiring drivers in driverless trucks Next: Alcohol in non-alcoholic booze, bacon in vegan salads. We kid, we kid AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 22
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers Keep that hype train rolling, please AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1
Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice' Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union AI + ML31 May 2023 | 20
Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs After that New York case in which attorney cited ChatGPT-hallucinated proceedings as real AI + ML31 May 2023 | 19
AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo 'We need to prepare now' AI + ML30 May 2023 | 46
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
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture AI + ML25 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise Opinion At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like AI + ML25 May 2023 | 23
Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space
Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records The doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now. Then see another patient quickly because they don't have to stop and scrawl notes
Malwarebytes may not be allowed to label rival's app as 'potentially unwanted' Legal prof warns: 'This case is like a wrecking ball for internet law'
The challenges Intel faces to compete with TSMC, Samsung Analysis Fabs still need to be built, process tech needs to be proven – and Pat's gotta make it price competitive
Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear Military, schools, and hospitals burned by off-brand Cisco inferno
Oh Snap... Desktop Ubuntu Core to arrive in 2024 Changes are happening in Fedora and openSUSE immutable distros, too
Starlink's rocket speeds hit a 50 megabit wall for large downloads Disgruntled customers claim throttling happens any time of the day or night
James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away Most distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe
Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy Next time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams
Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads Next step, AI-generated advertisers with AI-generated products for AI-generated people AI + ML25 May 2023 | 53
Get ready for Team America: AI Police Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave AI + ML25 May 2023 | 6
OpenAI calls for global watchdog focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence <movie voiceover>In a world united against one threat, one AI starts to fight bac...</movievoiceover>... Hey, who's writing this flick? AI + ML24 May 2023 | 18
Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking Dell World Who wouldn't want to feed their enterprise into Project Helix for training and inference? Anyone? AI + ML24 May 2023 | 1
ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet Maybe letting AI models loose on patients ain't a great idea, prof tells us AI + ML24 May 2023 | 33
G7 nations admit they're nowhere on AI regulation Now they want to catch up, prevent crooks, protect IP ... real soon now … after more talking AI + ML22 May 2023 | 8
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 | 67
Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use Didn't stop OpenAI rolling out iOS ChatGPT app, just made things a bit awkward AI + ML19 May 2023 | 15
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
How Microsoft hopes to tame large language models with Guidance Tricked-out template language offers alternative to verbose, plaintive prompts AI + ML18 May 2023 | 7
Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5
Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers Future robots don't need to be killers, they can just turn us against ourselves AI + ML17 May 2023 | 107
SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2
Top AI execs tell US Senate: Please, please pour that regulation down on us Devs should need a license to build powerful models, OpenAI CEO adds AI + ML17 May 2023 | 19
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
China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors Aims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong! AI + ML16 May 2023 | 5
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
Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them Opinion If you wear black T-shirts, are you even a white-collar worker? AI + ML15 May 2023 | 42
AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar Scotland's emergency rooms don't always have the resources to make good diagnoses under pressure AI + ML12 May 2023 | 24
Tough Euro crackdown on AI use passes key vote It's a familiar story: Legislation versus rapidly evolving technology AI + ML12 May 2023 | 6
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures AI + ML11 May 2023 | 1
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well? AI + ML11 May 2023 | 36
Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire Teams gets a bot, OneNote gets a bot, PowerPoint gets a bot, Outlook gets a bot, everybody* gets a bot! AI + ML10 May 2023 | 70
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
When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage hCaptcha researchers find that online labor platforms need work AI + ML09 May 2023 | 39
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
Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots Video If the goal was to make us feel sorry for these clumsy droids, mission accomplished AI + ML09 May 2023 | 5
White House pledges $140 million for seven new AI research centers In brief Plus: Hollywood writers go on strike to fight against AI stealing their jobs, and more AI + ML08 May 2023 | 9
Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to Slack GPT and Einstein GPT for Salesforce users currently under development AI + ML05 May 2023 | 17
How to tell an AI bot wrote that scammy-looking tax email: No spelling mistakes Don't let the robots take your money! That's the IRS's job AI + ML04 May 2023 | 16
American, British monopoly watchdogs probe AI to make sure we don't get screwed Review will also look at barriers to entry where hyperscalers hold all the cards AI + ML04 May 2023 | 4
SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings 50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4
Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum Don't get too comfortable, machines are doing more thinking AI + ML03 May 2023 | 24
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
Samsung puts ChatGPT back in the box after 'code leak' Others also blocked as company works on its own generative AI tech AI + ML02 May 2023 | 5
IBM's motto is 'Think' – its CEO reckons AI can do that as well as some workers Thousands of back-office jobs to go as Big Blue replaces them with brainboxes AI + ML02 May 2023 | 29
Misinformation tracker warns 'new generation' of AI-scribed content farms on the rise NewsGuard finds 49 websites spewing robo-written garbage to scoop ad money AI + ML02 May 2023 | 13
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
EU legislates disclosure of copyright data used to train AI In brief Watch the AI-generated anti-Biden advert from the GOP, and more AI + ML01 May 2023 | 10
AI models may not yet be safe, but at least we can make them affordable … ish Boffins devise query language for LLMs to make them more civil and less expensive AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 2
Here's how the data we feed AI determines the results Opinion Generative AI hallucinations are the least of our problems AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 32
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145 Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 9
Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI We've progressed from blaming this kinda thing on millennials, immigrants, China, woke libs, etc AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 34
Musk tried to wriggle out of Autopilot grilling by claiming past boasts may be deepfakes Tycoon hopes to swerve deposition in Tesla death crash lawsuit AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 69
President Biden urged to appoint AI officers to regulate this shiny-shiny tech And a pin to pop this hype bubble would be nice, too AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 7
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
How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's tough to fix Feature In the rush to commercialize LLMs, security got left behind AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 54
Stop OpenAI training its models on your chats by turning off history Also: ChatGPT Business tier will be available in the next few months AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 7
UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom Opinion Dungeon master Sunak talks up 'funky' Silicon Valley sales pitch while schools left without maths teachers AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 99
That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models Figure not a typo, tho it will be paired with £900M 'BritGPT' supercomputer, which is a bit more like it AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 25
US Supreme Court snubs that guy who wants AI recognized as patent inventors No surprise for a panel that appears to enjoy taking away rights rather than granting them AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 49
Tesla wins key court battle over Autopilot crash blame Anyone else who wants to take on Musk, please take note AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 45
Google's AI chatbot Bard catches up to generating code In brief NSFW? You'll need to check outputs for accuracy. Plus: OpenAI CEO says massive model era's over, Microsoft said to be building custom AI chip AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 4
Department of Homeland Security bets on AI to help handle China Secretary worries about critical infrastructure being held to ransom AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 8
Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors 'could be impossible to stop' Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 24
ChatGPT fans need 'defensive mindset' to avoid scammers and malware Palo Alto Networks spots suspicious activity spikes such as naughty domains, phishing, and worse AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 4
Google backs Bard to generate ads, which apparently improves creativity Assures advertisers 'guardrails' will stop anything bad from happening AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 16
Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name? AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 5
What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot' AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 33
Oracle offers AI to tell you if those lead times are hogwash It'll also give staff career advice AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 3
How DARPA wants to rethink the fundamentals of AI to include trust Comment Would you trust your life to the current generation of AIs? Yeah, we wouldn't either AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 25
4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ? AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 101
Reddit: If you want to slurp our API to train that LLM, you better pay for it, pal End of free money era and end of free data for building billion-dollar models AI + ML18 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 | 12
EU lawmakers fear general purpose AI like ChatGPT has already outsmarted regulators Rules proposed in EU AI Act are not enough to control 'very powerful AI' AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 24
Google crams more AI into search as Apple, Samsung sniff around Bing Mountain View may have nothing to fear, though – Microsoft's browser is still the underdog AI + ML17 Apr 2023 | 6
OpenAI CEO confirms biz is not currently training GPT-5 In brief Plus: Elon Musk wants Twitter to develop generative AI, and ChatGPT bots flood Reddit AI + ML17 Apr 2023 | 24
China reportedly let AI control a satellite, which then observed rivals India and Japan Asia in Brief Plus: Warren Buffett’s TSMC worries; CHIPS Act bits China; Japan’s quantum investment; and more AI + ML16 Apr 2023 | 2
Cybercrims hop geofences, clamor for stolen ChatGPT Plus accounts Where there's a will… AI + ML15 Apr 2023 | 11
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
Italy will say ciao to ChatGPT ban if OpenAI does indeed think of the children Updated And also, privacy safeguards AI + ML13 Apr 2023 | 7
San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis Software fix coming – that'll be a braking change we'd actually like to see AI + ML12 Apr 2023 | 44