The AI pioneer is alarmed by how clever the technology he helped create has become. And it all started with a joke. (more…)
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Joscha Bach is the VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously doing research at MIT and Harvard. Joscha work explores the workings of the human mind, in... (more…)
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LA JOLLA—The artificial intelligence (AI) language model ChatGPT has captured the world’s attention in recent months. This trained computer chatbot can generate text, answer questions, provide translations, and learn based on the user’s feedback. Large la... (more…)
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The world’s biggest builder of recycling plants says it will retrofit thousands of waste plants with AI tools to better sort recycling. (more…)
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Amazon keeps us in clusters of like-behaved shoppers; Google of like-behaved searchers; and Facebook, tragically, of like-behaved citizens. Reliant on behavior data, the machine constrains us to what we have been, rather than what we wish or hope to becom... (more…)
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