A long Hollywood writers strike may make movie and TV studios more likely to take a risk on AI-generated or AI-co-generated content.

Scientists should have licences to be allowed to develop AI products, the professional body for tech workers has urged. Rashik Parmar, chief executive of British Computer Society (BCS), the chartered institute for IT staff, made his comments after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a review into the AI market.

A basket of stocks selected by ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI), has far outperformed some of the most popular investment funds in the United Kingdom. Between March 6 and April 28, a dummy portfolio of 38 stocks gained 4.9 per cent while 10 leading investment funds clocked an average loss of 0.8 per cent, according to an experiment conducted by financial comparison site finder.com.

The man once described as the father of artificial intelligence is breaking ranks with many of his contemporaries who are fearful of the AI arms race, saying what is coming is inevitable and we should learn to embrace it. Prof Jürgen Schmidhuber’s work on neural networks in the 1990s was developed into language-processing models that went on to be used in technologies such as Google Translate and Apple’s Siri. The New York Times in 2016 said when AI matures it might call Schmidhuber “Dad”.

Italy’s GDPR restrictions were just a taste of what lies ahead for ChatGPT.

Businesses globally have introduced automation into their operations at a slower pace than previously anticipated, the World Economic Forum (WEF) opined this week. The org's annual Future of Jobs report said businesses currently estimate 34 percent of all their tasks are completed by machines – a trajectory that would see its 2020 prediction of 47 percent automation by 2025 fall short. The org has therefore adjusted its prediction and now guesstimates 42 percent of tasks will be automated by 2027.

While the conversations they produce may seem astounding, ChatGPT, Bard and other contemporary "AI" chatbots are not magic. Rather, they are merely examples of what computer scientists call "large language models," or LLMs. Essentially, LLMs are trained to identify likely sequences of words, then generate coherent and convincing text.

Explore the debate surrounding ChatGPT and Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories on the acquisition of language. Discover how language models raise questions about the nature of human language and its innate properties.

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The news outlet Insider announced to staff via email Thursday morning that the company lay off 10% of its workforce, including staff writers. Insider Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Carlson announced last week that the outlet’s writers would be experimenting with ChatGPT. Asked if the layoffs were related to the nascent use of the AI chatbot, an Insider spokesperson said, “Of course not.”

UW–Madison's Dane Morgan and Maciej Polak have published their solution for training ChatGPT to read academic articles, tabulate key data and check the results for accuracy, thereby saving valuable research time.

Sam Altman says the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and future strides in artificial intelligence will require new ideas.

On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients and for use in analyzing medical records while looking for trends.

The AI wars are heating up. Smelling blood in the water, Microsoft has been working tirelessly to bake ChatGPT AI models into virtually all of its products. So far, the most prolific example of that has been Bing Chat. Bing Chat is a new section on Microsoft's oft-derided number 2 search engine that allows users to search with natural human language, and receive natural human language results in return. Powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT-4, Bing has exclusive rights to commercial use of the machine learning models from the firm, prompting a furor of panic at search leader Google.

Competitive pressure among tech giants is propelling society into the future of artificial intelligence, ready or not. Scott Pelley dives into the world of AI with Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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The narrative around cheating students doesn’t tell the whole story. Meet the teachers who think generative AI could actually make learning better.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports. That's despite the billionaire CEO repeatedly voicing concerns over AI chatbots like ChatGPT, and even signing an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on developing AIs more advanced than OpenAI's GPT-4.

More than one-third of researchers believe artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to a “nuclear-level catastrophe”, according to a Stanford University survey, underscoring concerns in the sector about the risks posed by the rapidly advancing technology.

In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, has confirmed that the company is not currently training GPT-5, the presumed successor to its AI language model GPT-4, released this March.