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All The Unexpected Ways ChatGPT is Infiltrating Students' Lives
Far beyond cheating, artificial intelligence is changing the way some students learn and live.
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See Why AI Like ChatGPT Has Gotten So Good, So Fast
We asked three AI systems to generate content using the same prompt. The results illustrate how quickly the technology has advanced.
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ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Calls for AI Regulation, Warning of 'Existential Risk'
The statement echoed the comments of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Congress last week, where he testified to the need for a separate regulatory body.
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At G-7 Summit, Leaders Call for International Standards on AI
World leaders at the Group of Seven summit in Japan called for the development of international standards to limit the potential damage from rapid innovations in...
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U.S. Officials Say AI Will Be a Big Cyberthreat. How it'll Materialize is Less Clear.
Congress, too, is starting to take a closer look at how to get ahead of the potential cyberthreat of AI.
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Patients Were Told Their Voices Could Disappear. They Turned to AI to Save them.
Artificial intelligence can re-create voices that may have otherwise been lost to disease.
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Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the Rails
Big Tech is heralding chatbots as the next frontier. Why did Microsoft's start accosting its users?
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AI Can Now Create Any Image in Seconds
Researchers worry these systems produce images that can cause a range of harms, such as reinforcing racial and gender stereotypes or plagiarizing artists without...
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This Robot Catches Grandma Before She Falls
A mobile robot balance assistant developed by scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University can anticipate and catch seniors before they fall.
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Big Tech Builds AI with Bad Data, So Scientists Sought Better Data
BigScience is a global effort to build a more transparent, accountable AI, with less of the bias that infects so many Big Tech initiatives.
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Alexa Has a New Voice — Your Dead Relative's
Experts call the device's new feature a slippery slope, comparing it to an episode of 'Black Mirror'
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AI Model Tries to Re-create the Mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Researchers at Israeli artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs have developed and released an AI model of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
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Teslas Running Autopilot Have Been in 273 Crashes in Less Than a Year
Regulators released the first batch of data since mandating that companies such as Tesla report on serious crashes involving their driver-assistance systems.
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The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company's AI has Come to Life
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
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Pandemic Exposed Mental Health Divide Among College Students, Study Finds
Dartmouth College researchers found that smartphone technology and artificial intelligence could be employed as an "early detection system" for mental health issues...
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IRS Wants to Scan Your Face
By this summer, Americans wanting to access their Internal Revenue Service records online will be required to submit a facial video to confirm their identity.
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Former Google Scientist Says the Computers that Run our Lives Exploit Us
Meet Hume AI, a potentially more humane way to let the machines in.
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The Battle to Prevent Another January 6 Features a New Weapon: The Algorithm
A year after the attack on the Capitol, data scientists say artificial intelligence can help forecast insurrection — with some big concerns.
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Is Artificial Intelligence About to Transform the Mammogram?
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who survived breast cancer has devised a technique that seems to predict many breast cancer cases.
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