Artificial intelligence is gaining state lawmakers’ attention, and they have a lot of questions

The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston. As state lawmakers rush to get…

Tennis anyone? Researchers serve up advances in developing motion simulation technology’s next generation

Credit: Jason Peng et al. Simon Fraser University computing science assistant professor Jason Peng is leading a research team that is raising motion simulation technology to the next level—and using…

Research offers solutions through machine learning, blockchain

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Time is of the essence as a deluge of updates spreads across the internet and social media feeds. Members of the public are eager to find…

Tech giants form AI group focused on ensuring safety

The development of artificial intelligence has come with fears that the risks of the technology will outweigh its benefits. Four US leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) announced Wednesday the formation…

A new dataset of Arctic images will spur artificial intelligence research

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy has set off on a three-month science mission in the Arctic. As part of this mission, a new infrared imaging system will collect a…

OpenAI backs idea of requiring licenses for advanced AI systems

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An internal policy memo drafted by OpenAI shows the company supports the idea of requiring government licenses from anyone who wants to develop advanced artificial intelligence…

Teaching robots to teach other robots

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new USC study finds that by sharing knowledge with each other at the same time, AI agents can quickly learn a wider range of tasks,…

Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can’t be trusted to guarantee AI safety

by Edith M. Lederer In this photo provided by the United Nations Photo, Jack Clark shown on screen, co-founder of Anthropic, briefs the first ever Security Council meeting on artificial…

Evaluating the ability of ChatGPT and other large language models to detect fake news

Graph summarizing the outcome of the study Credit: Kevin Matthe Caramancion Large language models (LLMs) are an evolution of natural language processing (NLP) techniques that can rapidly generate texts closely…

UN rights council calls for AI transparency

An explosion in generative AI content since ChatGPT launched late last year has left authorities scrambling to figure out how to regulate such chatbots. The UN Human Rights Council on…