Google’s New Gmail Tool is Hallucinating Emails that don’t Exist
Google’s New Gmail Tool is Hallucinating Emails that don’t Exist This article is authored by Maggie Harrison for Futurism. Google’s new Bard extension will apparently summarize emails, plan your travels, and — oh, yeah — fabricate emails that you never actually sent. Last week, Google plugged its large language model-powered chatbot called Bard into a bevy of Google […]
Can LLMs Really Reason and Plan?
Can LLMs Really Reason and Plan? This is the title of the slides of Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati, Professor of AI at the Arizona State University, and the former President of AAAI. He gave this talk at the recent JP Morgan AI summit. Please find below the link to the slides and the audio of the […]
EU’s AI Act negotiations hit the brakes over foundation models
EU’s AI Act negotiations hit the brakes over foundation models Luca Bertuzzi writes for Euractive about a technical meeting on the EU’s AI regulation broke down on Friday (10 November) after large EU countries asked to retract the proposed approach for foundation models. Unless the deadlock is broken in the coming days, the whole legislation […]
Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model
Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model This TechCrunch article written by Rita Liao, reports on Kai-Fu Lee, the venture capitalist and computer scientist wants to create an OpenAI equivalent for China. Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller “AI Superpowers” and in China for his bets on artificial […]
AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert
AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert This article was published in The Guardian and authored by Dan Milmo. Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this […]
Research Article: Living guidelines for generative AI — why scientists must oversee its use
Research Article: Living guidelines for generative AI — why scientists must oversee its use This article, published in Nature and co-authored by Claudi L. Bockting, Eva A. M. van Dis, Robert van Rooij, Willem Zuidema, and Johan Bollen, recommends establishing an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages […]
France has appointed a Generative AI Committee
France has appointed a Generative AI Committee The gradual arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) at the heart of our daily lives reveals a little more and more the potential of this technology and raises many questions, especially in the fields of ethics, economy, productivity, work, business organization or the industrial and digital sovereignty of States. […]
MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI
MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI In July, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.” Over the next month, they received an influx of responses […]
The European AI Liability Directives
The European AI Liability Directives: Critique of a Half-Hearted Approach and Lessons for the Future This article, authored by Philipp Hacker, Chair of Law and Ethics of the Digital Society @ European University Viadriana, has been recently published in Computer Law & Security Review (51). Abstract: The optimal liability framework for AI systems remains an unsolved problem across the […]
G7 Hiroshima Process on Generative Artificial Intelligence
G7 Hiroshima Process on Generative Artificial Intelligence OECD has recently published a report titled “G7 Hiroshima Process on Generative AI: Towards a G7 Common Understanding on Generative AI”. In May 2023, G7 Leaders identified topics for discussion in the Hiroshima Artificial Intelligence (AI) Process and called for an early stocktaking of opportunities and challenges related […]