Chat wars

MATTHEW PRINCE HAD TO BE CON-verted to the belief that AI is eating the web. It was 18 months ago that he started getting calls from media executives, who complained to him about AI companies copying

JOANNE JANG SEES HER WORK AS “empowering users to fulfill their goals” right up to the point of not causing harm or infringing on others’ freedoms. “AI-lab employees should not be the arbiters of what

UNDER A CRYSTAL CHANDELIER IN A HIGH-ceilinged anteroom in Paris, the moderator of Intelligence Rising is reprimanding his players. These 12 former government officials, academics, and artificial inte

STUART RUSSELL RECEIVES FOUR OR five emails a day from people who seem to be in the grips of psychosis, convinced their AI chatbot of choice is suddenly conscious. “It’s appointing them as its emissar

The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) has been even more rapid than the internet’s, but up until this point the biggest GenAI buzz has surrounded online services. Whether you use ChatGPT or video GenAI su

We saw the first sign of the UK government’s AI strategy with the recent unveiling of the world’s 11th most powerful supercomputer at the University of Bristol. Isambard-AI is formed of 12 cabinets, e