Microsoft’s AI chatbot is ‘unhinged’ and wants to be human
Early testers of Microsoft’s new AI chatbot have complained of receiving numerous “unhinged” messages.
Countries urge action for rules on AI use in war
Countries including the United States and China called Thursday for urgent action to regulate the development and growing use of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that the technology "could have unintended consequences".
US launches artificial intelligence military use initiative
The United States launched an initiative Thursday promoting international cooperation on the responsible use of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons by militaries, seeking to impose order on an emerging technology that has the potential to change the way war is waged.
Cybersecurity defenders are expanding their AI toolbox
Scientists have taken a key step toward harnessing a form of artificial intelligence known as deep reinforcement learning, or DRL, to protect computer networks.
A large language model that answers philosophical questions
In recent years, computer scientists have been trying to create increasingly advanced dialogue and information systems. The release of ChatGPT and other highly performing language models are demonstrating just how far artificial intelligence can go in answering user questions, writing texts and conversing with humans.
‘This Is a Secret’
A Times columnist spoke with a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence. It didn’t go well.
What is ChatGPT: Here's what you need to know
When ChatGPT launched publicly in late November, users were astounded by its capabilities.
Help, Bing Won’t Stop Declaring Its Love for Me
A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine left me deeply unsettled. Even frightened.
Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.
Users say Microsoft's Bing chatbot gets defensive and testy
Microsoft's fledgling Bing chatbot can go off the rails at times, denying obvious facts and chiding users, according to exchanges being shared online by developers testing the AI creation.
Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Offers Some Puzzling and Inaccurate Responses
The new, A.I.-powered system was released to a small audience a week ago. Microsoft says it is working out its issues.
Explanations of artificial intelligence: Author proposes model that highlights evidence of fairness
Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in a variety of ways, such as building new kinds of credit scores that go beyond the traditional FICO score. However, while these tools can powerfully and accurately predict outcomes, their internal operations are often difficult to explain and interpret.
Slicing capacity-centered mode selection for network-assisted full-duplex cell-free distributed massive MIMO systems
Network-assisted full-duplex (NAFD) systems enable uplink and downlink communications within the same time-frequency resources, so as to avoid the overhead of switching uplink/downlink modes. However, as the number of users and access points (APs) proliferated, mass access brings significant overhead in mode selection.
The dark side of AI: Book warns that algorithms may be generating hate and discrimination
In an increasingly digital world, technology will promote historic social inequalities unless the system is challenged and changed, warns a new publication from Professor Yasmin Ibrahim from Queen Mary's School of Business and Management.
Lazy movie stereotypes that put women off science | Brief letters
Letters: Film-makers should retire the cliche of the lone male scientific genius, says Rachel Youngman of the Institute of Physics
A new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros levels
A team of computer programmers at IT University of Copenhagen has developed a new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros. levels—called MarioGPT, the new approach is based on the language model GPT-2. The group outlines their work and the means by which others can use their system in a paper on the arXiv pre-print server.
Will ChatGPT replace human writers? A psychologist weighs in
Steven Pinker thinks ChatGPT is truly impressive—and will be even more so once it "stops making stuff up" and becomes less error-prone. Higher education, indeed, much of the world, was set abuzz in November when OpenAI unveiled its ChatGPT chatbot capable of instantly answering questions (in fact, composing writing in various genres) across a range of fields in a conversational and ostensibly authoritative fashion.
Human writer or AI? Scholars build a detection tool
The launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT, with its remarkably coherent responses to questions or prompts, catapulted large language models (LLMs) and their capabilities into the public consciousness. Headlines captured both excitement and cause for concern: Ca