Online search to make up lost time with AI

Google CEO Sundar Pichai describes his group’s latest AI advances at an annual developers event in May 2023. Online search, dominated by Google for 25 years, has become as banal…

What is a foundation model? An explainer for non-experts

Credit: Stanford University New advancements in AI are transforming many aspects of our society. At the forefront of this development are powerful machine learning algorithms known as foundation models. The…

Audio book narrators say AI is already taking away business

A woman poses at an installation showing headphones at the booth of JVC at the IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) electronics trade fair in Berlin on September 1, 2016. As people brace…

Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial-intelligence makeover

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Google on Wednesday disclosed plans to infuse its…

Google answers ChatGPT challenge with Bard expansion

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the Google I/O keynote session at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on May 10, 2023. Google on Wednesday said it is…

Wendy’s turns to AI-powered chatbots for drive-thru orders

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Wendy’s Co. will begin testing an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot next month that will talk to customers and take drive-thru orders, becoming the latest fast-food chain to…

Hackers aim to find flaws in AI—with White House help

Rumman Chowdhury, co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit developing accountable AI systems, poses for a photograph at her home Monday, May 8, 2023, in Katy, Texas. ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and…

I unintentionally created a biased AI algorithm 25 years ago—tech companies are still making the same mistake

AI could replace 80% of jobs ‘in next few years’: expert

Leading artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel speaks at Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years—but that’s a good…

Tackling the ethical dilemma of responsibility in large language models

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with international experts, have published a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence addressing the complex ethical issues surrounding…