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What next for the AI revolution? Inside Google DeepMind, the world’s biggest AI company

Everyone laughed politely when I asked whether AI might, in the end, kill us all — everyone apart from one researcher from a US-based thinktank who told me that, as a pessimist, he believes there is about a “20 per cent chance that AI poses an existential threat to life.”

Evening Standard

Google launches Gemini, its 'newest and most capable AI model' — and a full-frontal assault on OpenAI's GPT-4

Google's Gemini is its newest AI model which has been built for multimodality, scalability and perfromance.

Tom’s Hardware

Google says new AI model Gemini outperforms ChatGPT in most tests

Gemini is being released in form of upgrade to Google’s chatbot Bard, but not yet in UK or EU

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Larry Page Accused Elon Musk Of Being A 'Specieist' Who Prefers Humans Over Digital Life Forms

At Elon Musk's 44th birthday party in 2015, Larry Page and the Tesla CEO argued about AI so severely that it ended their friendship.

International Business Times UK

What Elon Musk has said about Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist at the center of OpenAI’s leadership upheaval

“The key moment was recruiting Ilya Sutskever” to OpenAI, Musk said of breaking his friendship with Google cofounder Larry Page.

Fortune

Hunt for fraudsters in London ramped up using artificial intelligence, says minister as UK hosts AI summit

Exclusive: AI is linking millions of pieces of Government data to help to track down conmen and other fraudsters

Evening Standard

Morning Mail: ‘secretive’ Israel defence exports, bombshell testimony in Trump trial, AI risks debated

Greens say figures about arms deals show Australia has ‘unaccountable’ system; former fixer Michael Cohen testifies that former president inflated wealth

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Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers

CEO of DeepMind is ‘not a pessimist’ but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping ‘a middle way’

The Guardian - UK

AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief

Demis Hassabis calls for greater regulation to quell existential fears over tech with above-human levels of intelligence

The Guardian - UK

The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut review – genius and madness in the shadow of the atomic bomb

The Chilean author’s assured fictionalised portrait of the visionary Hungarian scientist who contributed to the Manhattan Project and laid the foundations of modern computing is darkly intelligent and feverishly propulsive

The Guardian - UK

Team behind AI program AlphaFold win Lasker science prize

Award for work on shapes of proteins raises prospect of AI research earning a Nobel for first time

The Guardian - UK

How Elon Musk lost a friend over AI: Google co-founder Larry Page just 'refused to hang out' after the Tesla CEO stole his top worker

After Musk tried to sabotage Google’s acquisition of DeepMind, he poached one of Page’s most valuable scientists to OpenAI with a $1.9 million salary.

Fortune

‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it

From synthetic organisms to killer drones, Mustafa Suleyman talks about the mind-blowing potential of artificial intelligence, and how we can still avoid catastrophe

The Guardian - UK

AI for all? Google ups the ante with free UK training courses for firms

US tech giant starts charm offensive on artificial intelligence with basic courses to help firms understand and exploit emerging phenomenon

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Fortune

Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn in a massive $1.3 billion funding round

The maker of the Pi chatbot plans one of the world's biggest A.I. supercomputers. Previous investors include Will.i.am.

Tom’s Guide

Google's new Gemini AI could beat ChatGPT — here's why

Google is investing months of work and millions of dollars to beat its rival ChatGPT

TechRadar

Google says its secret AI weapon could eventually outsmart ChatGPT

Google's DeepMind lab will equip the AI with reinforcement learning so it can solve tough problems by itself.

Tom’s Hardware

Google’s Next-Gen Gemini AI Expected to Surpass ChatGPT

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, expects their next AI program, Gemini, to surpass ChatGPT as a leading AI.

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Evening Standard

AI anxiety, VR shoes and bullish speeches — what happened at London Tech Week 2023

Now in its tenth year, London Tech Week is still making headlines. From Rishi Sunak’s full-throated opening speech to record US investment, the capital is a global tech superpower, says Chris Stokel Walker

Birmingham Post

Rishi Sunak says UK should lead world on AI regulation

'It’s important that we put guardrails in place to make sure that we develop and exploit this technology in a way that’s safe'

Daily Mirror

Apple CEO denies new tech is AI but admits it is 'powered by machine learning'

Tim Cook made the comments speaking to Good Morning America which comes just a week after leading AI figures such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warned AI could risk the 'extinction' of humanity

Tom’s Guide

Google DeepMind CEO claims we’re ‘just a few years away’ from human-like AI

Demis Hassabis has predicted when we could see the advent of artificial general intelligence indistinguishable from a human being.

Fortune

A.I. could rival human intelligence in ‘just a few years,’ says CEO of Google’s main A.I. research lab

Advanced A.I. that’s at least as intelligent as humans could happen “within a decade,” for better or worse.

Fortune

The Google Brain-DeepMind merger is probably good for Google. It might not be for us

Alphabet needs to get more out of its A.I. research spending. But Google's gain could wind up being our loss.

TechRadar

Google creates DeepMind division to combat threat from ChatGPT and Bing AI

Google's new DeepMind division is another exciting step in AI's evolution.

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