/ Users deserve blame for not heeding warnings, but OpenAI should be doing more to make it clear that ChatGPT can’t reliably distinguish fact from fiction. By James Vincent, a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for
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Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement
Artificial Intelligence/ Tech / It’s another high-profile warning about AI risk that will divide experts. Signatories include Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. By James Vincent, a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation
/ The EU is finalizing new AI regulations, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he has ‘many concerns’ about the law. The EU AI Act would require the company to disclose details of its training methods and data sources. By
The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was dangerously friendly
/ As politicians and companies agree on the need to regulate AI, experts warn of regulatory capture — of letting corporations write lax rules that lead to public harm. By James Vincent, a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and
OpenAI launches free ChatGPT app for iOS
/ An Android app is coming ‘soon.’ By James Vincent, a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission.
Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a chatbot that can read a novel in less than a minute
Artificial Intelligence/ Tech / Anthropic has expanded the context window of its chatbot Claude to 75,000 words — a big improvement on current models. Anthropic says it can process a whole novel in less than a minute. By James Vincent, a
EU draft legislation will ban AI for mass biometric surveillance and predictive policing
/ A new draft of the EU’s AI Act has been approved by parliamentary committees. Digital rights campaigners called the draft ‘overwhelmingly good news’ for prohibiting broad misuse of AI — but the act is not yet law. The draft legislation
AI startup Anthropic wants to write a new constitution for safe AI
Artificial Intelligence/ Tech / The company, founded by former OpenAI employees, has revealed new details of the written principles it uses to train its chatbot Claude using its ‘constitutional AI’ method. Image: Anthropic Anthropic is a bit of an unknown
Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data
/ The new ImageBind model combines text, audio, visual, movement, thermal, and depth data. It’s only a research project but shows how future AI models could be able to generate multisensory content. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta
AI is being used to generate whole spam sites
Artificial Intelligence/ Tech / A report identified 49 sites that use AI tools like ChatGPT to generate cheap and unreliable content. Experts warn the low costs of producing such text incentivizes the creation of these sites. Photo by Roberto Machado