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IBM plans to replace thousands of jobs with artificial intelligence. But according to insiders, the company’s AI is not yet up to the task. Instead, it appears that experienced employees will be laid off and jobs will be outsourced to India, reports Thomas Claburn for The Register. Several IBM employees have complained that the company’s …
Artificial intelligence could revolutionize the world of work in much the same way that the first computers did, writes Ben Thompson in his blog Stratechery. He compares the current situation to the introduction of mainframe computers in the 1960s, which replaced many accountants and clerks. He argues that in the long run, AI systems such …
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is undergoing a radical transformation. The former non-profit organization is being transformed into a for-profit company. Critics see this as a betrayal of OpenAI’s original goals of advancing the development of artificial intelligence safely and for the benefit of humanity. The transformation marks the end of the vision of conducting …
A noteworthy discussion on Reddit sheds light on the growing fears and uncertainties surrounding the transformative power of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on the world of work. The original post argues that while AI is currently seen by many as a useful tool, it has the potential to transform society on an unprecedented …
Google has spent around $2.7 billion to bring AI expert Noam Shazeer back to the company. Shazeer, co-author of a groundbreaking AI research paper, left Google in 2021 to start his own company, Character.AI. When that ran into trouble, Google offered the large sum – officially for a technology license. In reality, however, the main …
In their new book “AI Snake Oil,” two Princeton researchers warn against exaggerated expectations of artificial intelligence. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor criticize companies, scientists, and journalists for making misleading claims about AI. The authors emphasize the need for better education about AI to demystify the technology. They divide AI into two subcategories: predictive AI, …
Researchers are working on new AI systems that can check their own mathematical answers. This is reported by Cade Metz in the New York Times. The technology is meant to prevent chatbots like ChatGPT from providing incorrect information. Instead, the new systems can generate mathematical evidence to verify their answers. Silicon Valley startup Harmonic, for …
Alexandr Wang, the 27-year-old founder of Scale AI, has built a billion-dollar company that is laying the groundwork for modern AI development. As Berber Jin reports in an article for the Wall Street Journal, Scale AI employs more than 100,000 contractors worldwide who write text and label images to train chatbots and other AI systems. …
LinkedIn uses user data for its own AI training without prior consent. However, the social network has suspended this practice in the EU, EEA, Switzerland and the UK. As Chiara Castro writes for TechRadar, this case shows the importance of strong EU-style privacy laws. Meta and X (Twitter) had also previously tried to use European …
Researchers are apparently increasingly using small AI models on their own computers instead of the offerings of large AI services like ChatGPT. As Nature reports, freely available tools such as Llama or Phi-3 allow scientists to run AI models locally. This offers advantages: cost savings, data protection, and reproducibility. The local AI models are becoming …