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The hypocrisy of AI doomerism

Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry

Salon · Jun 24, 2024

Google flashes everyone — new Gemini Flash 1.5 takes on GPT-4o

Google is bringing out a new Gemini family model called Flash 1.5 that is not as powerful as Pro but significantly faster and impressive at multimodal chat.

Tom’s Guide · May 14, 2024

AI optimists crowd out doubters on the TED stage

AI is a "new digital species" that will perfect science and deliver free education, speakers said.

Axios · Apr 18, 2024

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 · Jan 12, 2024

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 · Dec 6, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023

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 · Dec 5, 2023

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 · Nov 18, 2023

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 · Nov 1, 2023

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

The Guardian - AU · Oct 24, 2023