Elon Musk and more than 1,000 people sign an open letter calling for a pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4

Elon Musk and 1,125 people, including AI experts, have signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on advanced AI development. The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute, called for AI labs to pause training any … Read More

Proof scientists can now read your MIND: AI turns people’s thoughts into images with 80% accuracy

Artificial intelligence can create images based on text prompts, but scientists unveiled a gallery of pictures the technology produces by reading brain activity. The new AI-powered algorithm reconstructed around 1,000 images, including a teddy bear and an airplane, from these brain … Read More

‘I want to destroy whatever I want’: Bing’s AI chatbot unsettles US reporter

NYT correspondent’s conversation with Microsoft’s search engine leads to bizarre philosophical conversations that highlight the sense of speaking to a human In the race to perfect the first major artificial intelligence-powered search engine, concerns over accuracy and the proliferation of … Read More

ChatGPT parent OpenAI faces a blockchain rival as a new NFT project creates 3D avatars from text

OpenAI, the creator of the language tool ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E, could be facing some new, three-dimensional competition on the blockchain. Polygon is working with Alethea AI to launch CharacterGPT, an artificial-intelligence-powered non-fungible token (NFT) project that describes itself … Read More

A mind of its own: Russia unveils terrifying new AI ‘superweapon’

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Avangard testing has already taken place. Photo / Supplied, Russian Ministry of Defence The race to incorporate artificial intelligence in modern weapons threatens to outstrip the technology’s capabilities — and the world’s ability to control them. The Commander-in-Chief of Russia’s … Read More

EU to Boost Border Security With AI Lie Detectors That Can Spot Illegal Migrants

Earlier, Hungary introduced psychological tests for migrants demanding asylum on the basis of persecution for having non-standard sexual orientations. Such tests were later ruled out by the European Court of Justice. The European Union is running trials of a new IBORDERCTRL … Read More

Europe Considers Granting Robots Legal Status

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“For making good any damage they may cause” In the 21st century West, unborn babies are not people, but robots have legal “personhood.” In 2017, the European Union released legal guidelines and questions concerning artificial intelligence in the future. One … Read More

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