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AI chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality

The generative AI iindustry hits a "trough of disillusionment" as early awe dims and tough problems mount.

Axios

The copyright battle over generative AI continues, as The New York Times sues OpenAI

OpenAI could face significant financial penalties if it is found guilty of sourcing information from The New York Times

Digital Camera World

OpenAI says complying with copyright 'impossible'

Building generative AI that complies with copyright law is not as unfeasible as OpenAI says. But it won't be cheap.

Fortune

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OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach'

"None of this bodes well," writes the NYU professor, who's worried about the nonprofit's board getting overpowered.

Fortune

‘You can do both’: experts seek ‘good AI’ while attempting to avoid the bad

While AI revolutionises medicine, bleaker alternatives present themselves, UN’s AI for Good conference finds

The Guardian - UK

Why picking citizens at random could be the best way to govern the A.I. revolution

A global, democratic approach–not an exclusively technocratic one–is the only adequate answer to the political and ethical challenge of governing A.I.

Fortune

How can Congress regulate AI? Erect guardrails, ensure accountability and address monopolistic power

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Five key takeaways from OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s Senate hearing

ChatGPT creator and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urges lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence during a hearing.

Al Jazeera

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

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”.

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Evening Standard

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’

Fortune

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.

Irish Mirror

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

France 24

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'.

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WEKU

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.

Fortune

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.

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?

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