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GZERO AI launches October 31st
There is no more disruptive or more remarkable technology than AI, but let’s face it, it is incredibly hard to keep up with the latest developments. Even more importantly, it’s almost impossible to...
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Hard Numbers: Tax hacks, Breast cancer, Google dinged, AI job risk
81.6: A new artificial intelligence tool can provide some relief to breast cancer patients experiencing lymphoedema, a painful swelling of the arm that’s a common side effect. It correctly predicted...
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Oil money meets AI
Discussion of the global race for AI dominance and influence often centers on the United States and China, with Europe forcing itself into the discussion with groundbreaking regulation and the...
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In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University and director of its Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, looks into the...
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That robot sounds just like you
First, OpenAI tackled text with ChatGPT, then images with DALL-E. Next, it announced Sora, its text-to-video platform. But perhaps the most pernicious technology is what might come next:...
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Hard Numbers: Amazon’s AI ambitions, what to use ChatGPT for, energy crisis,...
2.75 billion: Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion in the AI startup Anthropic, which makes the popular chatbot Claude, brings their total investment to around $4 billion, while Google also has...
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Congress keeps it old school
Last June, the House of Representatives banned staff use of ChatGPT — the free version at least. Now, it’s telling staffers that use of Microsoft’s Copilot, a tool built on the same large language...
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The US, UK forge truce on AI
The US and UK have struck the world's first bilateral agreement on AI safety, agreeing to cooperate on testing and risk-assessing artificial intelligence. Both countries will conduct their safety...
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Turkey’s AI elections
Voters across Turkey went to the polls on Sunday for local elections nationwide. While Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wasn’t on the ballot, observers expected the Turkish president to change the constitution to...
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Marietje Schaake, International Policy Fellow, Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and former European Parliamentarian, co-hosts GZERO AI, our new weekly video series intended to help you...
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Biden pushes forward on AI
Joe Biden is starting to walk the talk on artificial intelligence. Federal agencies have until December to get a handle on how to use — and minimize the risks from — AI, thanks to new instructions...
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Hard Numbers: Pay for Google?, Indonesian investment, Amazon walks out on AI,...
175 billion: Google said it made $175 billion in revenue from its search engine and related advertising last year, but is it ready to risk the golden goose? The company is reportedly considering...
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Israel’s lethal AI
The Israeli military is using artificial intelligence to determine bombing targets with cursory oversight from humans, according to reports from The Guardian and +972 Magazine last week. The reports...
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AI struggles with gender and race
Generative AI keeps messing up on important issues about diversity and representation — especially when it comes to love and sex. According to one report from The Verge, Meta’s AI image generator...
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TSMC gets billions to build in Phoenix
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will receive as much as $6.6 billion from the US government to expand its chip-making complex in Phoenix, Arizona. As part of the deal, TSMC will also...
View ArticleIsrael's Lavender: What could go wrong when AI is used in military operations?
In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University and director of its Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, examines the Israeli...
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Hard Numbers: Microsoft’s big Gulf investment, Amazon’s ambitions,...
1.5 billion: Microsoft has announced a deal to invest $1.5 billion in G42, an artificial intelligence firm based in the United Arab Emirates that recently cut ties with Chinese suppliers that had...
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Section 230 won’t be a savior for Generative AI
In the US, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been called the law that “created the internet.” It provides legal liability protections to internet companies that host third-party...
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Samsung hands Biden another chip win
The Biden administration is busy courting global semiconductor manufacturers to build stateside, recently handing billions to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to expand its chip fabrication...
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Let’s ‘pin’ it on technical problems
Most of the artificial intelligence we talk about comes packaged in software: chatbots, image generators, and other tools that add an AI kick to your typical internet experience. But one company’s...
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A web of antitrust woes
The US, UK, and Europe are all looking into whether Big Tech’s relationship with upstart AI companies is simpatico with their antitrust laws. The UK joined the party on April 11 when its Competition...
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Everyone has a chief AI officer now
It seems like every company worth its salt has a Chief AI Officer, aka CAIO, these days – or, at least, every company that wants to buy into the hype. The Financial Times reports that these positions...
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The UK is plotting to regulate AI
Six months after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosted a global summit on artificial intelligence at Bletchley Park, the United Kingdom is making moves to start regulating AI.Policy officials in...
View ArticleAI policy formation must include voices from the global South
Marietje Schaake, International Policy Fellow, Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and former European Parliamentarian, co-hosts GZERO AI, our new weekly video series intended to help you...
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Biden, Microsoft, and the United Arab Emirates
Microsoft has quickly become the most important investor in artificial intelligence technology, holding a $13 billion stake in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. It’s a peculiar deal with a revenue-sharing...
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The military jet that acts alone
The US Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, have been tinkering with the latest aerial weapons. On April 17, DARPA confirmed that in military exercises with the Air...
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WHO can succeed at AI?
The World Health Organization recently released Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health — or SARAH — an AI chatbot that’s able to answer basic health questions. SARAH is able to answer health questions...
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Meta’s AI full-court press
If you use any Meta product — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger — buck up for an onslaught of AI. The social media giant is rolling out AI-powered assistants across its apps in unavoidable...
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Hard Numbers: Google’s spending spree, Going corporate, Let’s see a movie,...
100 billion: AI is a priority for many of Silicon Valley’s top companies — and it’s a costly one. Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis said that the tech giant plans to spend more than $100 billion...
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Rep. Don Beyer goes back to school
Rep. Don Beyer, a 73-year-old car dealership owner-turned-politician, is not your typical grad student. A Democrat who served as Virginia’s lieutenant governor in the 1990s and an ambassador during...
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