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…
Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the type of technology underlying ChatGPT… For Apple, there was only one problem: The engineers no longer worked there. They’d left Apple last fall because “they believed Google was a better Read more…
According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chinese hackers vastly outnumber U.S. cyber intelligence staff “by at least 50 to 1.” CNBC reports: “To give you a sense of what we’re up against, if each one of the FBI’s cyber agents and intel analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, Chinese Read more…
Tencent Cloud has announced it’s offering a digital human production platform — essentially Deepfakes-as-a-Service (DFaaS). According to Chinese media and confirmed to The Reg by Tencent, the service needs just three minutes of live-action video and 100 spoken sentences — and a $145 fee — to create a high-definition digital Read more…
Sony says it sold a total of 38.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles, according to the company’s latest earnings release. In the first three months of the year, it shipped 6.3 million units — “more than triple what the company shipped in the same quarter the previous year (2 million),” reports Read more…
ChatGPT’s maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands of regulators who temporarily blocked it over privacy concerns. OpenAI said it fulfilled a raft of conditions that the Italian data protection authority wanted satisfied by an April 30 deadline Read more…
Palantir, the company of billionaire Peter Thiel, is launching Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), software meant to run large language models like GPT-4 and alternatives on private networks. In one of its pitch videos, Palantir demos how a military might use AIP to fight a war. In the video, the Read more…