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AI ‘Will Cause Real Damage,’ Microsoft Chief Economist Warns
4May By adminNo Comments
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AI ‘Will Cause Real Damage,’ Microsoft Chief Economist Warns

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence will be dangerous in the hands of unscrupulous people, according to Microsoft Corp. Chief Economist Michael Schwarz.“I am confident AI will be used by bad actors, and yes it will cause real damage,” Schwarz said during a World Economic Forum panel in Geneva on Wednesday. “It can do a lot damage in the hands of spammers with elections and so on.” AI “clearly” must be regulated, he said, but lawmakers should be cautious and wait until the technology causes “real harm.” Artificial intelligence tools have come under increased scrutiny as their use exploded in recent months following the debut of ChatGPT. Policymakers are trying to pressure companies to implement safeguards around the emerging technology.“Once we see real harm, we have to ask ourselves the simp...
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IBM eyes hiring pause because AI does the job
4May By adminNo Comments
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IBM eyes hiring pause because AI does the job

[ad_1] The CEO of IBM said he was eyeing to downsize the tech giant's back office workforce by nearly a third because those jobs are being made redundant by advances in artificial intelligence.In an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Arvind Krishna said that his company would enact a pause in hiring in those roles, and potentially reduce the payroll by 7,800 jobs over several years. "These non-customer-facing roles amount to roughly 26,000 workers," Krishna said. "I could easily see 30 percent of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period." Back office employees are only a fraction of IBM's roughly 260,000 workers, and the company has continued to hire in certain roles, even after recently letting go about 5,000 workers in other areas, the Bloomberg report said....
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Older adults perceive AI as more human-like than younger adults: Study
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Older adults perceive AI as more human-like than younger adults: Study

[ad_1] Artificial Intelligence is becoming more prevalent in our daily lives. While these technologies primarily assist us, they may sometimes be utilised in negative ways, such as in fraudulent or scam calls, thus we must be able to recognise them.According to a recent Baycrest study, older persons tend to be less capable than their younger counterparts to distinguish between computer-generated (AI) speech and human speech. "Findings from this study on computer-generated AI speech suggest that older adults may be at a higher risk of being taken advantage of," says Dr. Bjorn Herrmann, Baycrest's Canada Research Chair in Auditory Aging, Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and lead author of this study. "While this area of research is still in its infancy, further findings c...
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SenseTime Soars on Speculation; It Will Create AI Rival to ChatGPT
5Apr By adminNo Comments
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SenseTime Soars on Speculation; It Will Create AI Rival to ChatGPT

[ad_1] SenseTime Group Inc. rose its most in two months after speculation spread among investors that China's most valuable specialist AI company was preparing to launch a challenger to artificial intelligence phenomenon ChatGPT.Shares spiked 13% on Tuesday after talk spread on social media that the SoftBank Group Corp.-backed firm would unveil a large-scale AI model in coming days, joining the hordes of software companies now seeking to compete with OpenAI's creation. A SenseTime representative confirmed the company will soon send out invitations to a media event, without further details. Shanghai-based SenseTime, best known as a leader in AI-powered computer vision, would be joining an already crowded race to develop generative AI. Services like Midjourney, OpenAI's Dall-E and convers...
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At San Francisco expo, AI ‘sorry’ for destroying humanity
13Mar By adminNo Comments
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At San Francisco expo, AI ‘sorry’ for destroying humanity

[ad_1] Advances in artificial intelligence are coming so hard and fast that a museum in San Francisco, the beating heart of the tech revolution, has imagined a memorial to the demise of humanity."Sorry for killing most of humanity person with smile cap and mustache," says a monitor welcoming a visitor to the "Misalignment Museum," a new exhibit on the controversial technology. The pieces in this temporary show mix the disturbing with the comic, and this first display has AI disburse pithy observations to the visitors that cross into its line of vision. "The concept of the museum is that we are in a post-apocalyptic world where artificial general intelligence has already destroyed most of humanity," said Audrey Kim, the show's curator."But then the AI realizes that was bad and creates a...
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OpenAI Rival Stable Diffusion Maker Seeks to Raise Funds at $4 Billion Valuation
5Mar By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI Rival Stable Diffusion Maker Seeks to Raise Funds at $4 Billion Valuation

[ad_1] With artificial intelligence booming, one key player in the fast-growing space is talking to investors about raising more money after just reaching unicorn status in a funding round late last year. The parent company of Stable Diffusion, an AI tool for making digital images, is seeking to raise money at a valuation of about $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked to not be identified because it isn't public. It isn't clear how much capital Stability AI Ltd. is seeking to raise in the potential round. A final decision hasn't been made on whether to go ahead with the financing and the valuation could still change, the people added. London-based Stability, whose investors include Coatue Management and Lightspeed Venture Partne...
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