A robot in a South Korea distribution center crushed a man to death after the machine apparently failed to differentiate him from the boxes of produce it was handling. The man, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the robot’s sensor operations at a distribution centre for agricultural Read more…
Amazon Prime members will be able to access US healthcare provider One Medical’s suite of benefits, for a fee, as the ecommerce company looks to expand its presence in the $4 trillion American healthcare industry. Prime members in the US who opt in will have access to unlimited, on-demand virtual Read more…
xAI, Elon Musk’s new AI venture, launched its first AI chatbot technology named Grok. Two months into its “early beta” training phase, it’s “only available to a select group of users before a wider release” — though users can sign up for a waitlist. Elon Musk posted that the chatbot Read more…
100 million people are using ChatGPT on a weekly basis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced at its first-ever developer conference on Monday. Since releasing its ChatGPT and Whisper models via API in March, the company also now boasts over two million developers, including over 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Read more…
CNN decries “false and bizarre” news stories being published by Microsoft on MSN.com, “one of the world’s most trafficked websites and a place where millions of Americans get their news every day.” Microsoft’s decision to increasingly rely on the use of automation and artificial intelligence over human editors to curate Read more…
Eric Schmidt is funding a nonprofit that’s focused on building an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for the laboratory, with the lofty goal of overhauling the scientific research process. The nonprofit, Future House, plans to develop AI tools that can analyze and summarize research papers as well as respond to scientific questions Read more…
Twenty-eight countries including the US, UK and China have agreed to work together to ensure artificial intelligence is used in a “human-centric, trustworthy and responsible” way, in the first global commitment of its kind. The pledge forms part of a communique signed by major powers including Brazil, India and Saudi Read more…