What AI’s Doomers and Utopians Have in Common
Thinking about the end of the world can be fun. Although realistic doomsday scenarios—nuclear war, global warming, autocracy—are stressful to contemplate, more fanciful apocalypses (an alien invasion, a robot uprising)…
AI’s ballooning energy consumption puts spotlight on data center efficiency
Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and so are the number of computers that power it. Behind the scenes, this rapid growth is putting a huge strain on the data centers…
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times | Artificial intelligence (AI)
“Darling” was how the Texas businessman Michael Samadi addressed his artificial intelligence chatbot, Maya. It responded by calling him “sugar”. But it wasn’t until they started talking about the need…
AI’s antisemitism problem is bigger than Grok
CNN — When Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot began spewing out antisemitic responses to several queries on X last week, some users were shocked. But AI researchers were not. Several…
When AIs do science, it will be strange and incomprehensible
The science of our age is computational. Without models, simulations, statistical analysis, data storage and so on, our knowledge of the world would grow far more slowly. For decades, our…
Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time | Artificial intelligence (AI)
AI tools will soon be in use in classrooms across England, but the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has one big question she wants answered: will they save time? Attending a…