FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
No existing law requires federal law enforcement personnel to take training before using face recognition or to follow particular standards when using face recognition in a...
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse
Over the past year or so, you’ve probably had conversations with friends, family, and coworkers about the rise of generative AI capable of making convincing text...
The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient
Abbott’s contention is that machine inventions should be protected to incentivize people to use AI for social good. It shouldn’t matter, he says, whether a drug...
Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s Answer to OpenAI
But Andrulis considers LLMs just a stepping stone. “What we are building is artificial general intelligence,” he says. AGI, as it’s known, is widely seen as...
It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
Renee DiResta, technical research manager for the Stanford Internet Observatory, which tracks information campaigns, says the articles and journalist profiles generated as part of the CounterCloud...
How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth
For researchers and conservationists alike, the potential applications of machine learning are basically limitless. And Earth Species is not the only group working on decoding animal...
The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI
Models that are released under normal open source licenses, like GPT Neo from the nonprofit EleutherAI, are more fully open, the researchers say. But it is...
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
Programming is one area in which recent advances in AI have already had a considerable impact. In May 2021, GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, launched Copilot,...
Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
Cloud computing providers are very aware that their customers are struggling for capacity. Surging demand has “caught the industry off guard a bit,” says Chetan Kapoor,...
Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT
Last winter, the unveiling of OpenAI’s alarmingly sophisticated chatbot sent educators into a tailspin. Generative AI, it was feared, would enable rampant cheating and plagiarism, and...