Virtual ‘inbreeding’ risks sparking AI doom where bots get ‘progressively dumber’ as expert warns of ‘irreversible’ harm
ARTIFICIAL intelligence models may soon fall into a doom spiral as machine-generated gibberish floods the internet. It is no secret that artificial intelligence models must train on large swathes of…
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‘We did it all with a lot of respect’
(Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen “Alien: Romulus” — or, for that matter, the original 1979 “Alien” — consider holding off on this one.) A familiar face appears unexpectedly a…
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AI threat looms over presidential campaign
If you thought foreign interference played a big role in the 2020 presidential election, just wait until this fall. With the Russians, the Chinese and our adversaries in the Middle…
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Peter Hook blasts AI in the music industry
(Credits: Stefan Bollmann) Fri 16 August 2024 10:19, UK Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook is the latest artist to speak out about the use of artificial intelligence…
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Geekbench launches new AI benchmarking tool
Geekbench AI Following months of beta testing, the newly-renamed Geekbench AI 1.0 is now available with the aim of giving users the ability to make comparable measurements of Artificial Intelligence…
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Can AI help ease medicine’s empathy problem?
Modern medicine has an empathy problem. Artificial intelligence — done right — might be able to help ease it. Despite the proliferation of communication training programs over the past decade…
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