This February Ford cut 3,800 jobs, according to CNN, “citing difficult economic conditions and its major push toward electric vehicles… The veteran automaker said the layoffs were primarily triggered by its transition to electric vehicles, and a reduction in ‘vehicle complexity.’” Then in March GM also “unexpectedly cut several hundred Read more…
Remember that Google engineer/AI ethicist who was fired last summer after claiming their LaMDA LLM had become sentient? In a new interview with Futurism, Blake Lemoine now says the “best way forward” for humankind’s future relationship with AI is “understanding that we are dealing with intelligent artifacts. There’s a chance Read more…
Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries. Behind every physician’s medical advice is a wealth of knowledge, but soon, patients across the country might get advice from a different source: artificial intelligence. In California and Wisconsin, OpenAI’s “GPT” generative Read more…
The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments. From a report: Beneath the Himalayas, rivers fed by ancient glaciers supply the tiny kingdom of Bhutan with immense stores of hydroelectricity. The renewable resource has become an Read more…
Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm. Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became Read more…
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.