Sewell Setzer III had professed his love for the chatbot he often interacted with – his mother Megan Garcia says in a civil lawsuit
New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI
Nearly 200 years after Beethoven’s death, a team of musicians and computer scientists created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) that completed his Tenth Symphony so convincingly that music scholars …
Nvidia CEO Confirms Design Flaw in Blackwell AI Chips Fixed, Production Resumes
Blackwell chips, introduced in March, were delayed from the second quarter
OpenAI scientist Noam Brown stuns TED AI Conference: ’20 seconds of thinking worth 100,000x more data’
At the TED AI conference, OpenAI’s Noam Brown unveiled the o1 model, showcasing how “System Two Thinking” could transform industries by enabling AI to deliver smarter, more deliberate decision-making.
Microsoft says Russia trying to smear Harris with deepfake video, AI
Russia is attempting to “undermine” Vice President Harris’s campaign using artificial intelligence (AI) generated videos while China has begun targeting a series of GOP congressional cand…
Sampling algorithm can 'watermark' AI-generated text to show where it came from
A tool that can watermark text generated by large language models, improving the ability for it to identify and trace synthetic content, is described in Nature this week.
Small worms, big dreams: How an invertebrate brain inspired Boston’s biggest AI bet
Boston’s hottest artificial intelligence startup, LiquidAI, introduced a global audience to its unique and potentially revolutionary approach to AI.
Florida Mom Megan Garcia Says AI Chatbot Drove Son Sewell Setzer III to Suicide
A Florida woman is suing the makers of an artificial intelligence app after she said her son fell in love with a bot.
You can send Genmoji from a non-AI iPhone, but you’ll need a friend on iOS 18.2
Genmoji are here as part of the iOS 18.2 beta, and they come with some good news for users without an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone.
The Startup Fueling OpenAI and Anthropic’s Coding Race
Last fall, several Google artificial intelligence leaders met with Jonathan Siddharth, CEO of a startup that sells access to part-time software engineers on demand. The Google managers asked Siddharth whether the startup, Turing, could use its army of human programmers to teach Google’s AI to be …