A breakthrough in AI “superintelligence” has been rumored to have been made by the company that unleashed ChatGPT on the world, OpenAI, with their new project reportedly employing reasoning capabilities that previous machine learning models have not been capable of. Their research has also prompted the company to make itsread more
In a case that seems for all the world like a silicon-based ouroboros, the unprecedented proliferation of AI-generated material on the internet could result in the rapid disintegration of the quality of the output of AI that trains itself on this synthetic content—an effect dubbed ‘model collapse’ by the researchersread more
One of the crowning events in the field of AI research—the defeat of the world’s top professional Go player by a machine learning program—has been undone by an amateur player using a deceptively simple strategy: a strategy deceptive to AI, that is, but one that would be obvious to virtuallyread more
One of the pioneering developers of modern artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, has resigned from Google so he can speak freely about his concerns regarding the dangers and possible misuse—not to mention the potential existential hazards—posed by his own creation: the machine learning networks that power artificial intelligence. “I’m just a scientistread more