There should be a reporting mechanism in place for incidents when artificial intelligence (AI) goes wrong, just as there is for airplane crashes, a former OpenAI board member said Tuesday (April 16). Helen Toner, who is a director at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, said this in a talk at the TED conference, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Toner […]
French tech startup Mistral AI has been speaking to investors about raising several hundred million dollars at a valuation of $5 billion, The Information reported on Tuesday. It's unclear which investors Mistral has spoken to about a new funding round, the report said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Mistral's existing investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures and Microsoft Corp, which has also backed AI startup OpenAI. Mistral did not immediately respond...
The seventh-annual report on the global state of artificial intelligence from Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence offers some concerning thoughts for society: the technology's spiraling costs and poor measurement of its risks. According to the report, "The AI Index 2024 Annual Report," published Monday by HAI, the cost of training large language models such as OpenAI's GPT-4 -- the so-called foundation models used to develop other programs -- is...
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An independent review of the UN's operations in Gaza says it needs to improve its neutrality. We ask the head of the review whether countries that suspended donations because of Israeli allegations should resume them. Also on the programme: US prosecutors have accused Donald Trump of a conspiracy over hush money paid to a porn actress at the start of his criminal trial in New York; and we speak to the first woman to run the London Marathon topless to deliberately show the scars from her double...
In a meeting that underscores the European Union’s ongoing scrutiny of the tech industry, Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust chief, held discussions with representatives from the French artificial intelligence (AI) firm Mistral AI on Friday (April 26). The meeting took place against a backdrop of growing concerns regarding competition in the tech sector, with Vestager expressing concern about […]
The report is written by Josh Cockroft, Delphine Lievens and Chi Thai, and supported by a Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity Industry Fellowship grant.
More children and families extorted with AI-made photos and videos, says National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Child sexual exploitation is on the rise online and taking new forms such as images and videos generated by artificial intelligence, according to an annual assessment released on Tuesday by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), a US-based clearinghouse for the reporting of child sexual abuse material.Reports to the NCMEC of child abuse online rose by...
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AI-generated images and clips are affecting the rise of child sexual exploitation cases online, NCMEC says in the latest assessment report.
Advances in generative AI have taken the tech world by storm. Biotech investors are making a big bet that similar computational methods could revolutionize drug discovery. On Tuesday, ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Labs, an affiliate of Foresite Capital, announced that they incubated Xaira Therapeutics and funded the AI biotech with $1 billion. Other investors […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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