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OpenAI's Sam Altman tells senators: regulate us

But even with industry leaders asking for them, new rules for AI face a tough road in a split Congress.

Axios

ChatGPT chief tells US Congress that AI regulation is 'critical'

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.

France 24

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI can go ‘quite wrong’ while advocating for government intervention

Mr Altman, who helped create ChatGPT and DALL-E, advocated for an AI regulatory agency

The Independent UK

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OpenAI Chief Sam Altman Wants an FDA-Style Agency for Artificial Intelligence

His licensing proposal would slow down A.I. innovation without really reducing A.I. risks.

Reason

ChatGPT boss calls for a new government agency to keep AI companies in check

OpenAI's Sam Altman answered lawmakers' questions about the risks of AI and how it should be regulated.

PC Gamer

Evolution is making us treat AI like a human, and we need to kick the habit

The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than us”. His fear is that AI will one day succeed in “manipulating people to do what it wants”.

The Conversation

OpenAI boss Sam Altman tells congress he fears AI is ‘harm’ to the world

The company’s chief executive told US Congress his ‘worst fear is that we, the industry, cause significant harm’

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Advanced A.I. like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and voice-cloning tech is already raising big fears for the 2024 election

A.I. tools are expected to turbocharge the misinformation aimed at voters—and maybe help combat it.

Fortune

Elon Musk and other tech leaders urge 'immediate' pause on AI development amid 'risk to society'

Among the other 1,800 signatories was cognitive scientist Gary Marcus and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

Irish Mirror

Top tech leaders and researchers call for 'pause' in AI race

An open letter signed by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and many others, is warning against 'profound risks to society and humanity'.

France 24

Tech leaders urge a pause in the 'out-of-control' artificial intelligence race

A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a 6-month pause to ponder the risks of powerful technology that spawned a successor to ChatGPT.

WEKU

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start

Powerful artificial intelligence tools that can create video, audio, text and pictures are raising fears the technology will supercharge disinformation and propaganda by bad actors.

WEKU

GPT-4 debuts and Google beats Microsoft in race to add A.I. to office tools

Google is also giving business customers access to its most powerful language models

Fortune

Microsoft chatbot Sydney rattled users months before Bing

An Indian user complained to Microsoft in November about disturbing replies from its A.I. chatbot Sydney—a precursor to the new Bing.

Fortune

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on ChatGPT search: exploiting wishful thinking

Editorial: Hyping AI’s utility is part of a commercial push to get users to cede authority to machines

Financial Times

Why chatbots are bound to spout bullshit

Some of what they say is true, but only as a byproduct of learning to seem believable

WEKU

We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned

Computers traditionally excel at rocketry, so why do new artificial intelligence programs get it wrong?

The Conversation

AI might be seemingly everywhere, but there are still plenty of things it can't do – for now

These days, we don’t have to wait long until the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) impresses everyone with capabilities that previously belonged only in science fiction.

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Fortune

Artificial intelligence chatbots: Exciting breakthrough or dangerous tool?

Vivek Wadhwa didn't take the warnings about ChatGPT seriously–until his son asked it about their family.

Fortune

Generative A.I. doesn't much impress Noam Chomsky

The systems can write books or make art. But they are not getting us any closer to human-level intelligence.

Fortune

Generative A.I. doesn't much impress Noam Chomsky

The systems can write books or make art. But they are not getting us any closer to human-level intelligence.

Inverse

A pioneer of AI reveals what the tech is really capable of: “It’s not sentient”

If we want to reach true artificial intelligence, we'll need to combine both modern and traditional methods. And we're currently quite far from that goal.

The Guardian - US

From Hitchhiker’s Paranoid Android to Wall-E: why are pop culture robots so sad?

‘Sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way

Inverse

No, Google’s Deepmind isn’t on the verge of human-like reasoning

OPINION: A versatile new AI is fueling speculation that machines will soon think like humans. It’s time for a reality check.

WEKU

The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chatbot has a soul

The Google computer scientist who was placed on leave after claiming the company's artificial intelligence chatbot has come to life tells NPR how he formed his opinion.

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