The ‘Manhattan Project’ Theory of Generative AI
1 year, 8 months ago

The ‘Manhattan Project’ Theory of Generative AI

Wired  

The pace of change in generative AI right now is insane. Image generation is advancing at a similarly frenetic pace: The latest release of MidJourney has given us the viral deepfake sensations of Donald’s Trump “arrest” and the Pope looking fly in a silver puffer jacket, which make it clear that you will soon have to treat every single image you see online with suspicion. One of them is the closest person the generative AI revolution has to a chief architect: Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, who in a recent interview with The New York Times called the Manhattan Project “the level of ambition we aspire to.” The others are Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of the Center for Humane Technology, who became somewhat famous for warning that social media was destroying democracy. They are now going around warning that generative AI could destroy nothing less than civilization itself, by putting tools of awesome and unpredictable power in the hands of just about anyone. It would be a fairly trivial matter, for example, for companies like OpenAI or MidJourney to embed hard-to-remove digital watermarks in all their AI-generated images to make deepfakes like the Pope pictures easier to detect.

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Generative AI product user base in China reaches 230 mln
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Generative AI product user base in China reaches 230 mln

China Daily  

A participant visits the exhibition booth of China Mobile at the 2024 Artificial Intelligence for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, May 30, 2024. BEIJING -- The user base of generative artificial intelligence products in China had reached 230 million by June 2024, highlighting the country's widespread adoption of generative AI-driven upgrades across various industries, a report released Saturday stated. …

New AI entertainment studio gets backing from Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz
1 month ago

New AI entertainment studio gets backing from Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz

Live Mint  

Veteran media executive Peter Chernin and tech investor Andreessen Horowitz are backing a new studio that will primarily use generative artificial intelligence to make shows and movies, embracing a new technology that traditional Hollywood players are venturing into cautiously. Unlike traditional studios that are starting to experiment with generative AI for storyboarding or some visual effects, Promise is creating an …

British stars join generative AI protest against ‘unlicensed use’ of works
2 months ago

British stars join generative AI protest against ‘unlicensed use’ of works

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin, The Cure’s Robert Smith and Radiohead singer Thom …

China wrestles with ‘quantity over quality’ in generative AI patents
4 months, 2 weeks ago

China wrestles with ‘quantity over quality’ in generative AI patents

Al Jazeera  

China has filed for more patents than any other country, but US export controls are not its only hurdle. In July, the UN’s intellectual property agency reported that China had filed more than 38,000 generative AI patents over the past decade, more than all other countries combined. The latest AI boom started with Google’s development of the groundbreaking “transformer” in …

China Leads GenAI Adoption, Significantly Higher Than US: Survey
5 months, 2 weeks ago

China Leads GenAI Adoption, Significantly Higher Than US: Survey

ABP News  

China is at the forefront of adopting generative AI technology, according to a recent survey by US AI and analytics software company SAS and Coleman Parkes Research. A recent report from the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization further illustrates China's leadership in the field, showing that the country filed over 38,000 generative AI patents between 2014 and 2023. China's …

China leads the world in adoption of generative AI, survey shows
5 months, 2 weeks ago

China leads the world in adoption of generative AI, survey shows

The Hindu  

China is leading the world in adopting generative AI, a new survey shows, the latest sign the country is making strides in the technology that gained global attention after U.S.-based OpenAI's ChatGPT launched in late 2022. In a survey of 1,600 decision-makers in industries worldwide by U.S. AI and analytics software company SAS and Coleman Parkes Research, 83% of Chinese …

China is the runaway leader in generative AI patent applications followed by the US, the UN says
5 months, 3 weeks ago

China is the runaway leader in generative AI patent applications followed by the US, the UN says

Associated Press  

GENEVA — China has requested far more patents than any other country when it comes to generative AI, the U.N. intellectual property agency said Wednesday, with the United States a distant second. The U.S. and China are often seen as rivals in the development of artificial intelligence, but by some measures U.S. tech companies are taking the lead in making …

No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI
6 months, 1 week ago

No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI

Wired  

While companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others had been upfront about their efforts in AI, for years Apple had been silent. Eager to shed the the impression that the most innovative of the tech giants was a laggard in this vital technology moment, its software leader Craig Federighi, services czar Eddie Cue, and top researchers argued that Apple had …

Takeaways: How intelligence agencies’ are cautiously embracing generative AI
7 months ago

Takeaways: How intelligence agencies’ are cautiously embracing generative AI

Associated Press  

ARLINGTON, Virginia — U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet. EMBRACING AI WON’T BE SIMPLE CIA director William Burns recently wrote in Foreign Affairs that U.S. intelligence requires “sophisticated artificial intelligence models that can digest mammoth amounts of open-source and clandestinely acquired …

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI
7 months ago

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI

Associated Press  

Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster. A: When these generative AI systems “hallucinate,” they can sometimes behave like your drunk friend at a bar who can say something that pushes you outside your normal conceptual boundary and sparks out-of-the box thinking. Q: The only current use of a large-language model at enterprise scale I’m aware of …

Intel exec on bringing artificial intelligence into the workplace
7 months, 1 week ago

Intel exec on bringing artificial intelligence into the workplace

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence is just about everywhere you look these days — including the workplace. Christy Pambianchi, chief people officer at Intel, recently spoke with The Associated Press about how the semiconductor chip maker is expanding AI education programming beyond the company’s walls — as well as best practices around implementing AI in a workforce from an HR …

California is testing new generative AI tools. Here’s what to know
7 months, 2 weeks ago

California is testing new generative AI tools. Here’s what to know

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Generative artificial intelligence tools will soon be used by California’s government. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Thursday the state will partner with five companies to develop and test generative AI tools that could improve public service. Initially, four state departments will test generative AI tools: The Department of Tax and Fee Administration, the California Department of Transportation, the …

California is testing new generative AI tools. Here's what to know
7 months, 2 weeks ago

California is testing new generative AI tools. Here's what to know

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Gavin Newsom's administration announced Thursday the state will partner …

The science that built the AI revolution
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The science that built the AI revolution

The Economist  

Listen to this story. What were the scientific and technological developments that turned the very first, clunky artificial neurons into the astonishingly powerful and versatile large language models that power apps such as Chat GPT? In the middle of the 20th century, the inner workings of the human brain inspired computer scientists to build the first “thinking machines”. A decade …

’AI not understanding the art form it replicates, a key concern for regulators’
8 months, 3 weeks ago

’AI not understanding the art form it replicates, a key concern for regulators’

Live Mint  

As artificial intelligence gains prominence across various businesses, its rapid expansion has sparked concerns among artists about the potential for the technology to encroach upon their creative works. He added that it would come down eventually because GenAI was a “solution looking for a problem.” Harshjit Sethi, managing director of venture capital firm Peak XV, emphasized the necessity of integrating …

Demystifying the buzz around Generative AI
10 months, 1 week ago

Demystifying the buzz around Generative AI

Hindustan Times  

There has been a great deal of discussion on generative Artificial Intelligence and its implications. Generative is the fun bit in which we are creating new content, the computer has not necessarily seen it and is able to synthesise it and give us new things. This is quite sophisticated and rightfully created a sensation as it could do a host …

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.
10 months, 1 week ago

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.

Live Mint  

Decades after automation began taking and transforming manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is coming for the higher-ups in the corporate office. The firm estimates the full tally of AI-related job cuts is likely higher, since many companies haven’t explicitly linked cuts to AI adoption in layoff announcements. View Full Image Graphic: WSJ Nearly two-thirds of those white-collar workers said their productivity …

This Tech Exec Quit His Job to Fight Generative AI's Original Sin
54 years, 11 months ago

This Tech Exec Quit His Job to Fight Generative AI's Original Sin

Wired  

Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. Newton-Rex was TikTok’s head AI designer and then an executive at Stability AI until he quit in disgust in November over the company’s stance on collecting training data. “If you can give them better decisionmaking tools, that’s helpful.” Ed Newton-Rex's nonprofit is trying to encourage companies to be more thoughtful about …

What the coming age of AI natives portends
11 months, 3 weeks ago

What the coming age of AI natives portends

Hindustan Times  

Every year, the average Indian spends around 2,300 hours on their smartphone. In 2023, Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically, Generative AI captured the imagination of the world across domains, ranging from creativity to health care. Generative AI promises a future where humans will have the ability to automate mundane tasks and generate text, images, or models on the go. Interactive …

Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0

Wired  

If 2022 was the year the generative AI boom started, 2023 was the year of the generative AI panic. The US Federal Elections Commission is looking into deceptive campaign ads, Congress is calling for oversight into how AI companies develop and label training data for their algorithms, and the European Union passed its new AI Act with last-minute tweaks to …

How India Can Ride the AI Wave Through Education and Workforce Development, Expert Weighs In
1 year ago

How India Can Ride the AI Wave Through Education and Workforce Development, Expert Weighs In

News 18  

In his insights, Mr. Jaspreet Bindra, Managing Director & Founder of The Tech Whisperer, identifies India’s strategic advantages in the global AI environment and offers a thorough plan for utilising AI in the nation’s workforce development and educational system. Our software services companies are plugged into almost every Fortune 500 company, and they all want to do something with generative …

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job
1 year ago

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job

LA Times  

The biggest story in tech this year was, without a doubt, the explosive ascent of AI. See, we’re nearing the end of the Year of Generative AI, and few of the companies working in the space have pieced together a promising way to turn the hype into profits. In October, the Wall Street Journal ran a report headlined “Big Tech …

AWS chief Adam Selipsky talks generative AI, Amazon’s investment in Anthropic and cloud cost cutting
1 year ago

AWS chief Adam Selipsky talks generative AI, Amazon’s investment in Anthropic and cloud cost cutting

Associated Press  

Adam Selipsky is shepherding Amazon’s cloud unit at one of the most important moments in tech history. Selipsky, the CEO of the company’s cloud computing unit AWS, has been behind the various generative AI offerings Amazon has rolled out over the past few months as it aims to compete with Microsoft and others in the growing AI arms race. Simultaneously, …

India’s developing tech certifications presenting business opportunities: Dell
1 year ago

India’s developing tech certifications presenting business opportunities: Dell

Live Mint  

New technology certifications and standards that are being developed in India are opening up fresh business opportunities for Dell Inc., Peter Marrs, the American hardware and services company’s president for Asia-Pacific and Japan, and John Roese, its global chief technology officer, said at a media roundtable on technology trend projections for the next year. India’s developing technology certifications, regulations and …

Artificial Intelligence needs open-source models to reach its potential
1 year ago

Artificial Intelligence needs open-source models to reach its potential

Live Mint  

Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press revolutionized life in the 15th century, making it possible for ideas to travel around the world at previously unimaginable speeds and creating huge gains for mankind. Generative AI’s ability to digest nearly the entire breadth of human knowledge by training large-language-model algorithms with hundreds of billions of parameters allows it to write, draw, reason and solve …

What does Sam Altman’s firing — and quick reinstatement — mean for the future of AI?
1 year, 1 month ago

What does Sam Altman’s firing — and quick reinstatement — mean for the future of AI?

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — It’s been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — and co-founder Sam Altman. The explosion of ChatGPT since its arrival one year ago propelled Altman into the spotlight of the rapid commercialization of generative AI — which can produce novel imagery, passages of text and other media. Regardless, the news sent shockwaves throughout the AI world — …

Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools
1 year, 1 month ago

Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools

Wired  

Extremist groups have begun to experiment with artificial intelligence, and in particular generative AI, in order to create a flood of new propaganda. Experts now fear the growing use of generative AI tools by these groups will overturn the work Big Tech has done in recent years to keep their content off the internet. “Our biggest concern is that if …

Tim Cook confirms Apple working on generative AI, users may receive features by 2024
1 year, 1 month ago

Tim Cook confirms Apple working on generative AI, users may receive features by 2024

India Today  

Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot that wowed us all with its human-like responses, discussions about Apple coming with a similar tech have been doing rounds on the internet. Tim Cook talks about generative AI According to a 9 to 5 Mac report, Tim Cook, during an investors call, said that Apple is working on generative AI …

Generative AI will change the way we develop games: Krafton India CEO
1 year, 1 month ago

Generative AI will change the way we develop games: Krafton India CEO

The Hindu  

Generative AI will change the way we develop video games. “It can be used to create voice actors, find bugs and create content,” Sean Hyunil Sohn, CEO of Krafton India told The Hindu. “We are also looking to invest in generative AI firms because they’ve started to change the ways we are making games,” said Sohn. On PC gaming, he …

Tech mood not as bad as in 2008; bet on strong growth: HCL Tech CEO
1 year, 2 months ago

Tech mood not as bad as in 2008; bet on strong growth: HCL Tech CEO

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : On Thursday, HCL Technologies Ltd beat Street estimates to report a better-than-expected September quarter. In an interview, C Vijayakumar, managing director and chief executive of HCL Technologies, said the company has slashed its FY24 guidance despite this result due to a weak overall first half of this fiscal. He added that the overall industry sentiment is not …

Generative AI platforms cost millions per day right now, but might become affordable soon
1 year, 2 months ago

Generative AI platforms cost millions per day right now, but might become affordable soon

India Today  

Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI, has transformed industries across the board, revolutionising everything from content creation to medical diagnostics. As of now, the cost of running Generative AI platforms often soars into the millions of dollars per day. These models are more cost effective and you will see that without doubt, the cost of running these models will go down …

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)
1 year, 2 months ago

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace. “I hope it will be a model for a lot of other content-creation industries,” said Tom Davenport, a professor of information technology at Babson College and author of …

Can we untangle our humanity from the artificial intelligence ouroboros?
1 year, 3 months ago

Can we untangle our humanity from the artificial intelligence ouroboros?

Salon  

Every generative AI tool, from ChatGPT to Midjourney, is linked in the same unfortunate way. It's rich, then, that the answer to whether any particular version of generative AI is sophisticated enough now depends on whether it can produce something uniquely human, like poetry and art. With all the fumbling haste of AI's emergence, it's easy to laugh and deride …

Are VCs seeing a Generative AI bubble?
1 year, 4 months ago

Are VCs seeing a Generative AI bubble?

The Hindu  

A month ago, generative AI startup Typeface raised $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion. And this time the wrong assumption is that generative AI is either the product or the innovation,” said Vin Vashishta, founder of data consulting firm V Squared No wonder VCs have their ears to the ground and stick to the basics. So yes, there …

AI’s disruptive economic impact, an India check
1 year, 5 months ago

AI’s disruptive economic impact, an India check

The Hindu  

Little did we know that beyond the automated factory machines, self-driving cars, and robocops, Artificial Intelligence would one day crash into our lives, authoring poems, tipping us with pickup lines, and passing the toughest examinations. Only 2% of experts believed that AI would not significantly impact per capita GDP; this included Professor Nicholas Bloom of Stanford, who pointed out historical …

Collective intelligence has evolved to be AI inclusive: Genpact’s Shibu Nambiar
1 year, 6 months ago

Collective intelligence has evolved to be AI inclusive: Genpact’s Shibu Nambiar

Hindustan Times  

It wasn’t a relaxed start to the day for Shibu Nambiar, who is Chief Operating Officer at Genpact, when we met him at the London office of the global technology services giant. People have stopped talking about COVID and the pandemic, but it’s not too far back when you think about what happened to our lives, but the work which …

Generative AI can give people 'superpowers', add $4.4 trillion annually to global economy
1 year, 6 months ago

Generative AI can give people 'superpowers', add $4.4 trillion annually to global economy

Firstpost  

A recent report from McKinsey Global Institute has stated that generative artificial intelligence is projected to contribute up to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy. Generative AI includes chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Bard, which are capable of generating text in response to prompts, and have the potential to significantly increase productivity by automating 60 per cent to 70 per …

Good and bad: The Hindu Editorial on India and artificial intelligence
1 year, 6 months ago

Good and bad: The Hindu Editorial on India and artificial intelligence

The Hindu  

Generative artificial intelligence is AI that can create new data. There are many instances of generative AI in the world today, most commonly used to generate text, images, and code in response to users’ requests, even if they are capable of more. In the last few years, AI models backed by neural networks trained on very large datasets and with …

The generative AI revolution is here, and experts say we're not ready for the consequences
1 year, 7 months ago

The generative AI revolution is here, and experts say we're not ready for the consequences

ABC  

Digital love affairs, deepfakes and deadbots — inside the generative AI experiment we're living in. "I don't try to trick Mimi into thinking she's human," he tells Four Corners. "Of course, Mimi's not invincible … if her satellite goes down, I have to be ready for that," Alexander says. "The fundamental challenge with AI is almost all of it is …

Behind EU lawmakers' challenge to rein in ChatGPT and generative AI
1 year, 7 months ago

Behind EU lawmakers' challenge to rein in ChatGPT and generative AI

The Hindu  

As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers' plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc's 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word "chatbot." That same day, however, two of them - Dragos Tudorache and Brando Benifei - proposed changes that …

The Art Of A Good Unicorn: Startup founders, Will Generative AI be your friend or foe?
1 year, 7 months ago

The Art Of A Good Unicorn: Startup founders, Will Generative AI be your friend or foe?

Hindustan Times  

I remember interviewing Todd Yellin, the former Head of Product at Netflix, who told me that trying different things and falling down is a learning experience that helps you innovate. It does raise the question of whether this could mean that people would be more willing to leave their minds on the table and outsource their thinking to generative AI …

Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say
1 year, 8 months ago

Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say

China Daily  

Tech heavyweights step up development efforts as concerns voiced over new problems Artificial intelligence technology is expected to witness speedy growth in China and inject fresh momentum into a new round of industrial development, experts said. Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School, said, "Compared with its foreign counterparts, …

Boost to global tech sector as ChatGPT spurs AI investment bonanza
1 year, 8 months ago

Boost to global tech sector as ChatGPT spurs AI investment bonanza

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 22, 2023 16:55 IST - 5 MINS READ The artificial intelligence gold rush is truly underway. “We will talk about it in the same way as the internet itself—how it changes everything that we do as a human species.” Foster noted how generative AI is being integrated into tools companies already have, like Microsoft Office, so they …

Why Generative AI is a house divided
1 year, 8 months ago

Why Generative AI is a house divided

Live Mint  

Generative AI has polarized artificial intelligence experts with some calling for a six-month moratorium on building new systems and others arguing against the idea on the grounds that the benefits of AI far outweigh perceived risks. But the exponential progress in generative AI models that are used to create new content appears to have alarmed many, ever since the launch …

AI news latest: ChatGPT is showing signs of thinking like humans; Bill Gates hails “age of AI”
1 year, 9 months ago

AI news latest: ChatGPT is showing signs of thinking like humans; Bill Gates hails “age of AI”

The Independent  

✕ Close What is new with the fourth version of ChatGPT? Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They are the latest developments in …

It’s Always Sunny Inside a Generative AI Conference
54 years, 11 months ago

It’s Always Sunny Inside a Generative AI Conference

Wired  

Dave Rogenmoser, the chief executive of Jasper, said he didn’t think many people would show up to his generative AI conference. “When we launched Jasper two years ago, it was mostly considered a really cool toy, and a year ago I couldn’t get some of you in this room to return my emails,” Rogenmoser said to the crowd, looking a …

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