Artificial Intelligence: Incremental Progress for Laymen, But Experts Sound the Alarm

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The Internet s a v v y may already have some experience interacting with artificial intelligence. Not quite the same as interacting with a human perhaps, but a money saver in some applications.

Yet a few tech s a v v y experts warn of potential danger as the technology rapidly evolves. Alarmist nonsense? Or enlightened warning of potential great peril?

Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society'​

By Jyoti Narayan, Krystal Hu, Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee

March 29 (Reuters) Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society.

Earlier this month, Microsoft-backed OpenAI unveiled the fourth iteration of its GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) AI program, which has wowed users by engaging them in human-like conversation, composing songs and summarising lengthy documents.

Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society'

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society.

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Six month pause? What good is half a year for Pandora?

 

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May 10, 20235:46 AM GMT-5

Google expected to unveil its answer to Microsoft's AI search challenge​

By Jeffrey Dastin
May 10 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday is expected to unveil more artificial intelligence in its products to answer the latest competition from Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), which has threatened its perch atop the nearly $300-billion search advertising market.
Through an internal project code-named Magi, Google has looked to infuse its namesake engine with generative artificial intelligence, technology that can answer questions with human-like prose and derive new content from past data.

Google expected to unveil its answer to Microsoft's AI search challenge

Alphabet Inc's Google on Wednesday is expected to unveil more artificial intelligence in its products to answer the latest competition from Microsoft Corp , which has threatened its perch atop the nearly $300-billion search advertising market.

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We're off to the races ladies & gents. Artificial Intelligence, (A.I.) is now an $economic competition between $wealthy titans awash with surplus $cash. This "genie" cannot be crammed back into the bottle. Buckle your seatbelt.