Machines as “Thinking” Partners
“The Machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back.” –Isaac Asimov
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Four-week-old AI Startup Raises Record $113.3 Million in European Push
A French start-up founded four weeks ago by a trio of former Meta and Google artificial intelligence researchers has raised $113.3 million in Europe’s largest-ever seed round. From a report: Mistral AI’s first round of financing values the Paris-based …
Sir Paul McCartney Says AI Has Enabled a ‘Final’ Beatles Song
Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed AI to help create what he calls “the final Beatles record.” From a report: He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the technology had been used to “extricate” John Lennon’s voice from an old demo so he could comple…
Nature Bans AI-generated Art From Its 153-Year-Old Science Journal
Renowned scientific journal Nature has announced in an editorial that it will not publish images or video created using generative AI tools. From a report: The ban comes amid the publication’s concerns over research integrity, consent, privacy, and int…
AI watchdog agency proposal gets backing from UN chief
Generative AI technology that can spin authoritative prose from text prompts has captivated the public since ChatGPT launched six months ago.
OpenAI, DeepMind Will Open Up Models To UK Government
Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced at London Tech Week on Monday. From a report: The priority access will be granted…
Will Productivity Gains from AI-Generated Code Be Offset by the Need to Maintain and Review It?
ZDNet asks the million-dollar question. “Despite the potential for vast productivity gains from generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot, will technology professionals’ jobs actually grow more complicated? ”
People can now pump out code o…
Marc Andreessen Criticizes ‘AI Doomers’, Warns the Bigger Danger is China Gaining AI Dominance
This week venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published “his views on AI, the risks it poses and the regulation he believes it requires,” reports CNBC.
But they add that “In trying to counteract all the recent talk of ‘AI doomerism,’ he presents what …
300 People Attend a Church Sermon Generated by ChatGPT
The Associated Press reports:
The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord. The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a be…
Is Self-Healing Code the Future of Software Development?
We already have automated processes that detect bugs, test solutions, and generate documentation, notes a new post on Stack Overflow’s blog. But beyond that, several developers “have written in the past on the idea of self-healing code. Head over to St…