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Artificial intelligence: models, chips, policy and the companies building them.
AIChimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. Based on to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring through social learning. Specifically, adult chimps deliberately model the behavior, then turn their...
AINvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday. To him, AI isn’t some new form of “alien mind,” as at least one OpenAI safety researcher has described it. It’s just hardware and software, he ...
AIOn social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.
AIThe Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) has officially weighed in on the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems proclaimed in Paris in 2000, each worth $1 million. The problem asks whether the equations governing fluid motion in three-dimensional space always have a smooth, co...
AIMicrosoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns. Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns. Microsoft is publishing a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct” today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress....
AICurrent chatbots aren’t likely to help lone actors invent a deadly pathogen, experts say. But newer models, trained in biology, may need stronger safeguards.
AICompanies at the forefront of artificial intelligence in Asia, Europe and the United States posted declines after tech leaders expressed worries about the safety of “frontier” A.I. technology.
AIChina has sharply criticized warnings about AI risks from Anthropic CEO Amodei and other U.S. AI leaders. The state-run Global Times accuses Amodei of waging a "silent AI Cold War." Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun called for "open, inclusive, universally beneficial and ethical" AI devel...
AIThis is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scarem...
AIA call to slow the development of artificial intelligence has rattled markets and drawn pushback in Washington and Beijing. Others worry it may not be enough.
AIAs calls for artificial intelligence regulation intensify, US President Donald Trump’s team have made it clear that if lab leaders want to implement an industry-wide slowdown, they’re going to have to do it themselves. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called on the US administration to reg...
AISam Altman is doubling down on his call to pump the brakes on AI, at least a little. He wants a uniform, nationwide safety framework for advanced AI but says the industry shouldn't wait for lawmakers, even though international coordination needs U.S. administration support. To that end, OpenAI no...