
Newser - 4 hours 41 min ago
Artificial intelligence may be figuratively reshaping police work, but in one Utah city it briefly tried to reshape an officer into a fairy-tale amphibian. Heber City police say an AI report-writing tool recently produced a document claiming an officer had transformed into a frog courtesy not of sorcery, but of...

The Guardian - 6 hours 10 min ago
Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is somewhat slower' than first predicted A leading artificial intelligence expert has rolled back his timeline for AI doom, saying it will take longer than he initially predicted for AI systems to be able to code autonomously and thus speed their own development toward superintelligence. Daniel Kokotajlo, a former employee of OpenAI, sparked an energetic debate in April by releasing AI 2027 , a scenario that envisions unchecked AI...

The Guardian - 9 hours 54 min ago
Next generation of chips in full production' and will arrive later this year, Jensen Huang says at CES in Las Vegas Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that the company's next generation of chips is in "full production" saying they can deliver five times the artificial-intelligence computing of the company's previous chips when serving up chatbots and other AI apps. In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the leader of the world's most valuable company...

NY Post - 16 hours 50 min ago
Creating or sharing non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material, including sexual deepfakes created by artificial intelligence, is illegal in Britain.

UPI - 18 hours 31 min ago
A Utah police department's use of artificial intelligence led to a police report stating that an officer had been transformed into a frog.

Sky News - 18 hours 57 min ago
Ofcom has made "urgent contact" with Elon Musk's social media platform X over "serious concerns" its in-built artificial intelligence can be used to generate "undressed images of people and sexualised images of children".

Engadget - 19 hours 11 min ago
CES tends to bring a wave of news from chipmakers, and Qualcomm has used this year's event to announce the Snapdragon X2 Plus laptop processor. This is a more modest version of the flagship Snapdragon X2 Elite chip that Qualcomm unveiled in September. The Snapdragon X2 Elite will be available in the coming generation of Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs and its integrated Hexagon NPU can deliver the 80 TOPS performance benchmark for powering artificial intelligence tasks. The chip is also equipped with...

The Guardian - 22 hours 11 min ago
Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writing In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles. "AI gets lots of things wrong," he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face. He set about retraining it and, in a flash, he had it back on track instinctively understanding the inner nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a way...

The Onion - 22 hours 11 min ago
PALO ALTO, CA Shouting over the sound of the alarm as it blared through the headquarters of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, panicked xAI technicians were reportedly throwing levers Monday in a frantic effort to find the one controlling Grok's pedophilia. "Come on, everybody, it's got to be here!" said xAI engineer Matthew Fedorov, who ran […] The post Panicked xAI Technicians Frantically Throw Levers To Find The One Controlling Grok's Pedophilia appeared...