Artificial Intelligence

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in influencing how we use the web looks set to increase inexorably, especially with OpenAI — the company behind ChatGPT — teasing SearchGPT. This is an AI-powered search tool designed to serve up direct answers to your queries rather than pages of ‘optimized’ results.If you’re experiencing a sudden burst…

OpenAI apparently doesn't want anyone poking around its former co-founder's computer.In a heavily redacted letter to the judge filed on Thursday in New York federal court, lawyers for the Author's Guild said OpenAI has objected to including six current and former employees as "custodians" in the lawsuit. A custodian refers to someone in possession of…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Cops are now using AI to generate images of fake kids, which are helping them catch child predators online, a lawsuit filed by the state of New Mexico against Snapchat revealed this week. According to the complaint, the New Mexico Department of Justice launched an undercover investigation in recent months…

Scientists in China have created a new computing architecture that can train advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models while consuming fewer computing resources — and they hope that it will one day lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI).The most advanced AI models today — predominantly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Claude 3 — use…

The Department of Justice is reportedly deepening its probe into Nvidia. Officials have moved on from merely questioning competitors to subpoenaing Nvidia and other tech companies for evidence that could substantiate allegations that Nvidia is abusing its "dominant position in AI computing," Bloomberg reported. When news of the DOJ's probe into the trillion-dollar company was…

Guillermo Rauch, CEO of AI startup Vercel, recently coined the term "frontier content" to describe the type of information that will help website owners survive in the new AI era.ChatGPT has stoked a boom in large language models and chatbots that have ingested everything on the internet and can answer questions convincingly.This is beginning to…

A controversial facial recognition tech company behind a vast face image search engine widely used by cops has been fined approximately $33 million in the Netherlands for serious data privacy violations. According to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), Clearview AI "built an illegal database with billions of photos of faces" by crawling the web…

Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? That’s one small example of how AI fails. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor collect dozens of others in their new…

Spotter has been giving creators money for years as part of its catalog investment business. Now, it wants to offer them video ideas, too.The company announced on Tuesday that it's launching a creative studio for YouTubers that uses generative AI to help them brainstorm video ideas, titles, concept art, and even different parts of a…

In AI hardware circles almost everyone is talking about inference.Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said on the company's Wednesday earnings call that inference made up roughly 40% of Nvidia's $26.3 billion in second-quarter data center revenue. AWS CEO Matt Garman recently told the No Priors podcast that inference is likely half of the work done across…