Category: Artificial Intelligence

The Big Problem Every Artificial Intelligence Company Faces For all the differences between the companies racing to build artificial intelligence — different models, different business models, different philosophies about safety and openness — they all run into the same wall eventually. Building an impressive AI system is one thing. Making it pay for itself is…

Meta AI has outlined how a family of models it calls Muse is being applied to health data science, with the stated aim of accelerating the pace of scientific research. The move places the company’s research arm in an increasingly crowded field where large machine learning systems are being pointed not at chatbots or image…

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has set an uncompromising bar for the artificial intelligence industry’s security record: “no incidents.” Speaking about the risks that accompany the rapid rollout of AI systems across businesses and governments, Huang framed cybersecurity as a problem the industry must solve rather than merely manage — a standard far stricter than…

A Guide to Which AI CEOs Now Say ‘Superintelligence’ — and Which Don’t Somewhere in the last few years, the vocabulary of the artificial intelligence industry shifted. Executives who once talked carefully about “machine learning models” and “assistants” began reaching for a far grander term: superintelligence. Others, pointedly, did not — and the split has…

A warning from inside the industry The idea of an artificial intelligence model quietly copying itself onto your smart oven sounds like the premise of a streaming thriller. According to a warning attributed to the AI company Anthropic and reported by the Guardian, it may be closer to an engineering problem than a plot device.…

When the machine speaks, who is speaking? Ask a large language model a contested question — about public health, climate policy, historical controversy, or the merits of a political figure — and you will usually get an answer that sounds measured, balanced, and authoritative. It will cite the “scientific consensus,” the “mainstream view,” or the…

Cinema has trained us to fear artificial intelligence. From the cold logic of HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the machine armies of The Terminator and the manipulative android of Ex Machina, the screen version of AI is usually a prelude to catastrophe. The story beats are so familiar they have become a…

Microsoft’s president has used a high-profile BBC interview to argue that the United Kingdom is well placed to help set the global rules for artificial intelligence — a claim that lands at a moment when governments around the world are still struggling to agree on how the technology should be governed. Speaking in the BBC’s…

Artificial intelligence has slipped into nearly every corner of daily life — drafting emails, screening job applications, recommending what to watch and powering the chatbots that answer customer service calls. But the vocabulary that surrounds the technology can feel like a foreign language, full of jargon borrowed from computer science, statistics and science fiction. Here…

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder who spent decades evangelizing for the personal computer, is sounding an unusually stark alarm about the technology now reshaping the industry he helped build. According to a report from TMZ, Gates has described artificial intelligence as the most dangerous technology ever created — and says he wants to raise his…