applications of artificial intelligence
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YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children With AI
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web back in 1989, he probably didn’t imagine that his new system would be the repository for all of humanity’s worst impulses, but here we are. The latest example from the internet horror show comes from YouTube, where the company was forced to update its policies to say…
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The New York Times Asks Court to Destroy ChatGPT
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, asking that ChatGPT be destroyed, along with any other large language models and training sets that have used The Times’ work without payment. This is the first major media organization to sue the creators of ChatGPT, and the ruling could set a…
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It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current form, the law would go…
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Microsoft’s Copilot Is Getting a GPT-4 Turbo Boost
Microsoft Copilot, the company’s AI-fueled workflow companion, is getting an upgrade. The virtual assistant will soon be integrated with OpenAI’s latest batch of tools, including the new and improved GPT-4 Turbo, which promises to make the app’s usefulness factor improve by a matter of degrees. Yusuf Medhi, Microsoft’s EVP and consumer chief marketing officer, said…