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The changes may be less perceptible than in smartphones, tablets, or wearables, but chargers have also been quietly reinvented over the last decade. At one time a bulky mix of tangled cables and connectors, slow to perform and prone to overheating, they’re now smaller, safer, and faster, thanks to a slew of technological advances. These […]
A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by itThe real danger that artificial intelligence poses to work is not just job loss – it is the growing divide between people who use AI to extend their skills and those whose working lives are increasingly shaped
Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance Read More »
Dr Simon Nieder responds to Richard Dawkins’ encounters with a chatbotRichard Dawkins’ reflections on AI consciousness are striking – not because they show that machines have crossed some hidden threshold into inner life, but because they reveal how readily we can be persuaded that they have (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it
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Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar errorDevelopers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres –
Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres Read More »
The company’s UK and Europe boss has become a lightning rod for the British public’s fear of a US tech takeoverThe hall was packed with rightwing radicals when Louis Mosley heralded a coming revolution. Just as Oliver Cromwell – that “crusader for Christ and liberty” – routed King Charles I’s royalists, “a similar revolution is
Who is Louis Mosley, the man tasked with defending Palantir against its critics? Read More »
The system’s power is comparable to others – but it still has frightening implications for the future of hackingLast month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it
How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier Read More »
A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yetIn February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta’s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test
‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators? Read More »
Journalist Jamie Bartlett on the people trying to get AI to say things it shouldn’t … for the safety of us allAll the major AI chatbots – from ChatGPT to Gemini to Grok to Claude – have things they should and shouldn’t say.Hate speech, criminal material, exploitation of vulnerable users – all of this is
World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind researchIt’s the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers.In the doom scenario, this means that when the superintelligent AI
‘No one has done this in the wild’: study observes AI replicate itself Read More »
Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructureAI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm.While businesses
Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms Read More »
