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7 Times Smart People Said AI Would Spin Out of Control and Destroy Us All
The AI revolution is upon us. Giant tech corporations have unveiled a new generation of artificial intelligence powered applications like ChatGPT — and industry is plunging full steam ahead, hoping to cash in on the new tech while it’s still hot.
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Plastic-Devouring Fungi Boost Hope for Tackling Global Litter
Discarded plastic is everywhere, mucking up natural and developed environments alike. Australian scientists say they’ve discovered two varieties of fungi that will eat away at the problem. In a study published this week, researchers from the University of Sydney report that fungi commonly found in dirt have broken down plastic in their lab.
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Military Tech Execs Tell American Lawmakers an AI Pause Is ‘Close to Impossible’
Military tech executives and experts speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday said growing calls for a “pause” on new artificial intelligence systems were misguided and seemed “close to impossible” to enact. The experts, who spoke on behalf of two military tech companies as well as storied defence contractor the Rand Corporation, said Chinese…
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Meta’s AI Is Partially Trained on Breitbart and Russia Today, Study Finds
AI is sophisticated, but it’s not really intelligent. Today’s large language models used to power programs like ChatGPT, are amalgamations of scraped text found on the internet. So when Meta introduced its “state of the art” LLaMA AI back in February, eyes turned to some of the datasets used to train it, especially the Google-made…