On May 18, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced an impressive new tool: an AI system called LaMDA that can chat to users about any subject. To start, Google plans to integrate LaMDA into its main search portal, its voice assistant,…
AI researchers at Google, set the bar for search engines in the first place, are sketching out a blueprint for what might be coming up next. They say large language models—machine learning algorithms like OpenAI’s GPT-3—could wholly replace today’s system…
Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against…
It will be as if the world had created a second China, made not of billions of people and millions of factories, but of algorithms and humming computers. PWC, a professional-services firm, predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) will add $16trn…