Photo: Antlii (Shutterstock) YouTube wants to help you make “music” with AI. The Google-owned video platform launched an AI music incubator this week that promises to “protect artists.” The new platform, which was created in partnership with music industry giant Universal Music Group (UMG), appears to be designed to protect well-known musical artists from having … Read more
Large language models like those powering ChatGPT and other recent chatbots have broad and impressive capabilities because they are trained with massive amounts of text. Michael Sellitto, head of geopolitics and security at Anthropic, says this also gives the systems a “gigantic potential attack or risk surface.” Microsoft’s head of red-teaming, Ram Shankar Sivu Kumar, … Read more
That sounded to me like he was anthropomorphizing those artificial systems, something scientists constantly tell laypeople and journalists not to do. “Scientists do go out of their way not to do that, because anthropomorphizing most things is silly,” Hinton concedes. “But they’ll have learned those things from us, they’ll learn to behave just like us … Read more
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy of the latest issue of WIRED!). It’s the exact sort of question that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI feature, which I’ve been testing … Read more
Hanson and I talked about the idea of adding real intelligence to these evocative machines. Ben Goertzel, a well-known AI researcher and CEO of SingularityNET, is leading an effort to apply advances in machine learning to the software inside Hanson’s robots that allow them to respond to human speech. The AI behind Sophia can sometimes … Read more
For her 38th birthday, Chela Robles and her family made the trek to One House, her favorite bakery in Benicia, California, for a brisket sandwich and brownies. On the drive home, she pressed a small touch screen on her temple and asked for a description of the world outside. “A cloudy sky,” came the reply … Read more
SATYA NADELLA: As we moved from GPT 2.5 to 3, we all started to see these emerging features. It began to show scaling effects. We not only trained it to code, but it got really good at coding. That’s when I became a believer. I thought, “Wow, this is really on.” Was there a single … Read more