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Google says that its cloud unit is seeing ‘staggering’ interest in putting generative artificial intelligence tools to work despite broad social concerns that the technology may be moving too quickly into people’s lives. Google on Tuesday said it was weaving...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many industries, from entertainment to medicine, are wrestling with the emergence of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI). Scientific research is no exception. Funding agencies are already cracking down on the use of generative text AIs like ChatGPT...

ChatGPT Enterprise will offer business customers a premium version of the artificial intelligence bot. OpenAI on Monday said it was launching a business version of ChatGPT as its artificial intelligence sensation grapples with declining usership nine months after its historic...

Credit: AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword of 2023 ever since ChatGPT made its public debut earlier this year, with businesses, schools, universities and even non-profits looking for ways to integrate AI in their operations. John Kim,...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Just before 3 a.m. one night this month, Scott Slumpff was awakened by the ding of a text message. “An ALERTCalifornia anomaly has been confirmed in your area of interest,” the message said. Slumpff, a battalion...

Credit: Shutterstock As generative AI settles into the mainstream, growing numbers of courses and certifications are promising entry into the “hot job” of prompt engineering. Having skills in using natural language (such as English) to “prompt” useful content out of...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow—up to 60,000 times slower than code...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers developed a new artificial intelligence technique to change a person’s apparent age in images while maintaining their unique identifying features, a significant step forward from standard AI models that can...

14nm analog AI chip resting in researcher’s hand. Credit: Ryan Lavine for IBM Separate developments in speech recognition technology from IBM and California universities at San Francisco and Berkeley offer promising news for patients suffering from vocal paralysis and speech...

Tesla’s Elon Musk is among those claiming that AI could make humanity extinct, while standing to benefit by arguing only their products can save us. Silicon Valley’s favorite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around...