Google CEO warns AI race could harm humanity
Alphabet Inc. and Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the push to adopt artificial intelligence technology must be well-regulated to avoid potential harmful effects.
Asked in a 60 Minutes interview...
OpenAI launches bug bounty program for ChatGPT
OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 (R366,981) to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.
The AI company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that it has rolled...
Alibaba opens up testing of AI tool to corporate customers
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is inviting users to test the company’s in-house artificial intelligence tool, the latest attempt from a Chinese tech behemoth to rival OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT.
The company’s cloud computing unit is...
Temporary AI development halt will help China — Former Google CEO
Putting a temporary pause on artificial intelligence development would only hand an advantage to competitors in China, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said, after more than 1,000 researchers signed a letter warning of the...
Nvidia launches new AI chips to power AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
Riding the surge of hype around ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products, Nvidia Corp. introduced new chips, supercomputing services and a raft of high-profile partnerships Tuesday intended to showcase how...
GPT-4 launch is noteworthy, but not groundbreaking
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid...
How ChatGPT can help push universities to change
The Covid-19 pandemic was a shock to higher education systems everywhere. But while some changes, like moving lectures online, were relatively easy to make, assessment posed a much bigger challenge.
Assessment can take many forms, from essays to...
Google launches ChatGPT-like tools in Gmail and Google Docs
Google is rolling out various generative AI features and capabilities in its software development, research, cloud, and Workspace apps.
The big integration of AI into the company's products was announced in a blog post by Google Cloud...
GPT-4 officially launched — with support for image inputs
OpenAI is unveiling the successor to an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that spawned viral services ChatGPT and Dall-E, and set off an intense competition among technology companies in the area known as generative AI.
The startup said...
Microsoft brings Video Super Resolution to Edge browser
Microsoft has started testing built-in video upscaling for AMD and Nvidia graphics cards on its Edge browser.
Video Super Resolution (VSR) can increase quality and remove artefacts on web videos lower than 720p resolution by using...
Boeing collaborates with Hivemind on pilot-less military planes
Boeing Co. and Shield AI Inc. have agreed to work together to accelerate the military use of the startup’s autonomous aircraft software and explore other defence applications for the artificial-intelligence technology.
Shield AI’s...
AI not yet ready to take over McDonald's jobs
While many people fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace humans in various jobs, there is one seemingly elementary role where the technology still comes short — taking McDonald's drive-thru orders.
ZDNet reports that several people on...
My cat can get a patent if an AI can — UK lawyer
If an artificial intelligence machine can be named as an inventor for a patent, pet cats could be next, a UK patent lawyer said at the nation’s top court, arguing only humans can be inventors in law.
The UK’s Supreme Court will decide whether an...
ChatGPT now available for integration with business apps
OpenAI is making its ChatGPT tool available to companies to incorporate into their own apps as it seeks commercial uses for the wildly popular chatbot.
The company, which introduced ChatGPT to the public in November, is now offering paid...
Meta creating new AI product group
The chatbot battle is heating up, and Mark Zuckerberg is making it clear that Meta Platforms Inc. is focusing on artificial intelligence-powered tools, too.
“We’re creating a new top-level product group at Meta focused on generative AI to turbocharge our work...
Snapchat Plus gets its own GPT-powered bot
Snap Inc., maker of the photo-sharing app Snapchat, has released an AI-enabled chatbot, becoming the latest major tech company to roll out features powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology.
Snapchat’s My AI bot will be pinned to the top of the app’s chat...
Meta unveils LLaMA AI research tool
Meta Platforms Inc. introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft Corp.
The tool, LLaMA, is...
Bing Chat severely limited to stop talking about feelings
Microsoft Corp. appeared to have implemented new, more severe restrictions on user interactions with its “reimagined” Bing internet search engine, with the system going mum after prompts mentioning “feelings” or “Sydney,” the internal...
Famous artist uses AI to add Eminem's voice to his song
French producer and DJ David Guetta used a combination of AI-generated lyrics and an AI voice generator to add Eminem-style vocals to a song.
In a video posted to Twitter, the artist explains that he created the vocals "as a joke" but...
Cybercriminals creating ChatGPT-powered Telegram bots that can write malware
Hackers are selling malware products with integrated ChatGPT capabilities that allow users to easily create malicious code or phishing emails, Check Point Research reports.
The security firm previously discovered that...