One day and six (very long) agreements later, can we call the meeting to hammer out the future of AI regulation a success? • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here What does success look like for the second global AI summit? As the great and good of the industry (and me) …
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In 2007, a big-screen version of the hit video game was announced, but it languished in development limbo. What happened, and what does it mean for Margot Robbie’s new adaptation? When the news came out that Margot Robbie is set to produce a movie based on the iconic life-simulation video game, The Sims, many people’s …
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UK touts ‘Bletchley effect’ of safety institutes, but division remains over whether to limit AI abilities Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist The Bletchley Park artificial intelligence summit in 2023 was a landmark event in AI regulation simply by virtue of its existence. Between the event’s announcement and …
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Journalist Maria Ressa named Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk in speech at Hay literary festival in Powys “Tech bros” such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are “the largest dictators”, Maria Ressa, who won the Nobel peace prize last year for her defence of media freedom, has said. The American-Filipina journalist has spent a number …
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Funding round values artificial intelligence startup at $18bn before investment, says multibillionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has closed a $6bn (£4.7bn) investment round that will make it among the best-funded challengers to OpenAI. The startup is only a year old, but it has rapidly built its own large language model (LLM), the technology …
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Hollywood star’s claim ChatGPT update used an imitation of her voice highlights tensions over rapidly accelerating technology When OpenAI’s new voice assistant said it was “doing fantastic” in a launch demo this month, Scarlett Johansson was not. The Hollywood star said she was “shocked, angered and in disbelief” that the updated version of ChatGPT, which …
If you hear the words ‘down by the river’ and immediately start humming one of modern gaming’s most gorgeous earworms, you have the Bafta-winning Borislav Slavov to thank For Borislav “Bobby” Slavov, it is not enough to just be a composer. The Bulgarian musician sees himself as a man who wears many hats: composer, music …
One computer scientist says we should embrace human-machine relationships, but other experts are more cautious Hollywood may have warned about the perils of striking up relationships with artificial intelligence, but one computer scientist says we may be missing a trick if we do not embrace the positives that human-machine relationships have to offer. Despite the …
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Scientists have found that immersing kids in computer games can train their brains to localise sounds better Scientists have recruited an unusual ally in their efforts to help children overcome profound deafness. They are using computer games to boost the children’s ability to localise sounds and understand speech. The project is known as Bears – …
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OpenAI’s unsubtle approximation of the actor’s voice for its new GPT-4o software was a stark illustration of the firm’s high-handed attitude On Monday 13 May, OpenAI livestreamed an event to launch a fancy new product – a large language model (LLM) dubbed GPT-4o – that the company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, claimed to be …
