Category: Artificial Intelligence

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…

A group of former OpenAI employees who say they were fired by the company have gone public with concerns about how artificial intelligence systems are tested, supervised and monitored, according to a report from Fox News. The details of the dismissals and the specific claims being raised have not been independently verified, and OpenAI has…

Georgia Tech has announced a new online master’s degree in artificial intelligence, expanding one of the best-known portfolios of large-scale online graduate programs in American higher education. The announcement, made through the university’s news center, signals that the Atlanta institution intends to apply the same model it pioneered more than a decade ago with its…

Surgery has always been described as equal parts science and craft. A surgeon spends years learning anatomy from textbooks, but the deeper education happens at the operating table — in the feel of tissue under a blade, the split-second judgment when a vessel bleeds unexpectedly, the quiet recalibration when the body inside the patient does…