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
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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
The age of AI
Scaling up AI Initiatives to SuperPOD levels
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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
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10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
Feature Spies gonna spy
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
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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
Pole position
How VAST and NVIDIA can help you win the generative AI race.
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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
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