AI and society

Lawyer who used ChatGPT to file charges now faces trial himself

Summary Since the advent of large language models, the media and experts have been sounding the alarm: The content generated may be wrong. This message has not been heard everywhere. A New York attorney cited cases that didn’t exist using ChatGPT, not knowing it was making things up. The case in question involves a man …

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Google, OpenAI & Anthropic propose “early warning system for novel AI risks”

Summary Google Deepmind, in collaboration with leading AI companies and universities, publishes a proposal for an “early warning system for novel AI risks”. In a new paper, “Model evaluation for extreme risks,” researchers from leading AI companies, universities, and other research institutions outline what an early warning system for extreme AI risks might look like. …

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Microsoft Bing is now the default search engine for ChatGPT

Summary Microsoft and OpenAI deepen their collaboration: whoever searches the web in ChatGPT will use Bing in the future. At the Microsoft Build conference, the company announced that it is introducing Bing as the default search engine for OpenAI ChatGPT. “ChatGPT will now have a world-class search engine built-in to provide timelier and more up-to-date …

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OpenAI bosses share some thoughts on how to control a superintelligence

Summary Everyone is talking about ChatGPT and AI text generation. But OpenAI’s real goal is to develop an artificial superintelligence. The company reminds us of its distant goal – and suggests how to keep such a system under control. Straight from OpenAI’s executive suite comes an article on how to control a potential super-AI: Sam …

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AI critic Marcus and OpenAI’s Altman push for regulation

Summary Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, called for a new agency to regulate and license AI, which was met with both support and skepticism in the US Senate. In the first US Senate hearing on “Oversight of AI: Rules for Artificial Intelligence,” it quickly became clear that everyone kind of agreed: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, …

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks AI will bring lots of great new jobs

Summary At the US Senate hearing on the opportunities and risks of generative AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked about his worst nightmares about AI. But he didn’t really want to answer like he had before. He expects a “significant impact” on the job market, Altman said, but exactly what that impact will be …

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Anthropic thinks Apple’s business terms could be good for humanity

Summary AI startup Anthropic gives a first look at the “constitution” of its Claude language model, which it hopes will set it apart from other models. Anthropic uses a “constitution” to keep its Claude language model in check. As long as the model obeys the laws, it can respond freely. The startup doesn’t consider this …

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Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, and the White House ask AI icon Geoffrey Hinton for advice

Summary Update, May 4, 2023: Hinton tells the British newspaper The Guardian that after his public resignation from Google, Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk, and the White House contacted him to discuss the risks of AI. Hinton describes himself as a “socialist” and says he believes that “the media” and “the means of computation” should not …

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AI expected to result in “significant labor-market disruption” says WEF

Summary How will the job market change in the next five years? The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2023 provides a comprehensive forecast. The bottom-line impact of most technologies on the job market will be positive over the next five years, according to a broad cross-section of the world’s largest employers. That’s one …

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“AI godfather” Hinton leaves Google with regrets about his work

Summary Geoffrey Hinton is one of the world’s most prominent AI researchers. Now he is wrapping up his career at Google – and saying goodbye with a warning. About a decade ago, renowned computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton laid the groundwork for today’s advanced AI systems like ChatGPT with his research on artificial …

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