After several dashed predictions, quantum computing is accelerating rapidly with actual use cases and scientific breakthroughs expected within years, not decades.
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, had a prediction to make on Friday: reasoning capabilities will make technology far less predictable.
The AI Experts Committee is expected to promote China’s perspective on how the fast-growing technology should be governed
The warnings are coming from all angles: artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity and must be shackled before it is too late.
One of Europe’s biggest tech events, Web Summit, launched on Nov 11 in Lisbon with pop superstar Pharrell Williams among those taking to the stage.
Leading lights of the tech industry are meeting in Lisbon on Nov 12 for the Web Summit, the sector’s first big event since the US election, with Donald Trump’s victory expected to be a key theme of their discussions.
AI companionship apps can provide harmless entertainment or even offer limited forms of emotional support. But claims about the mental health effects of these tools are largely unproved, and experts say there may be a dark side.
(Reuters) - ChatGPT's creator OpenAI plans to invest significant resources and create a new research team that will seek to ensure its artificial intelligence remains safe for humans - eventually using AI to supervise itself, it said on Wednesday.
Global leaders should be working to reduce “the risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence technology, a group of industry chiefs and experts warned on Tuesday.
Experts have long warned about the threat posed by artificial intelligence going rogue – but a new research paper suggests it’s already happening.
The age of artificial intelligence has begun, and it brings plenty of new anxieties. A lot of effort and money are being devoted to ensuring that AI will do only what humans want. But what we should be more afraid of is AI that will do what humans want. The real danger is us.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI is forming a new team to create democratic processes to shape how its AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors, the Microsoft-backed company said in a blog post on Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -OpenAI named ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear as interim CEO, while outgoing chief Sam Altman moved to backer Microsoft, in a surprise turn of events that clouded the future of the startup at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The rift that cost artificial-intelligence whiz kid Sam Altman his CEO job at OpenAI reflects a fundamental difference of opinion over safety, broadly, between two camps developing the world-altering software and pondering its societal impact.
THE rift that cost artificial-intelligence whiz kid Sam Altman his CEO job at OpenAI reflects a fundamental difference of opinion over safety, broadly, between two camps developing the world-altering software and pondering its societal impact.
Brain implants have long been trapped in the realm of science fiction, but a steady trickle of medical trials suggests the tiny devices could play a big part in humanity’s future.
Paris: Silicon Valley’s favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence (AI) around the idea of human extinction.
Silicon Valley’s favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction.
Letters: From PROF MUSHTAK AL-ATABI, Provost and CEO, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia.