When answering questions posed in Chinese, French, German or Russian, large language models seem to process the queries in English, which could create cultural issues Source link
Elon Musk is worried about the pace of AI development Chesnot/Getty Images Elon Musk has asked a court to settle the question of whether GPT-4 is an artificial general intelligence (AGI), as part of a lawsuit against OpenAI. The development of AGI, capable of performing a range of tasks just like a human, is one … Read more
Chatbots vary their answers depending on the exact wording used to prompt them, and now it seems that asking an AI to answer as if it were a Star Trek captain boosts its mathematical ability Source link
More than half the world’s population, including India, the US and UK, will have the chance to vote for new governments in 2024 WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images THE biggest election year in the history of the world is under way, and we have just had our first glimpse at how artificial intelligence is being … Read more
Should we treat technology as human? peepo/Getty Images Academic research is increasingly anthropomorphising technology – a trend that could mislead the public about how powerful artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge developments really are. Myra Cheng and her colleagues at Stanford University, California, analysed the content of more than 655,000 academic publications released between May 2007 … Read more
THIS was the year when two of Silicon Valley’s biggest hype blimps – cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence – were deflated by drama. First came the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried, whose shady cryptocurrency empire landed him in court, where he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy. During his trial, witnesses and evidence revealed that Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency … Read more