Day: November 3, 2023

By Brenda Goh and Paul Sandle SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) – China said it attended a top-level ministerial meeting at the UK AI Safety Summit on Thursday, despite not being listed by Britain among the “like-minded” participants and not featuring in official handshakes or the family photograph. China’s absence sparked questions because it participated in the first day of the two-day summit on the safety of “frontier” artificial intelligence, and Britain declined to say why Beijing was not among those joining the second day’s senior meeting. China’s delegate to the meeting, Vice Minister of Scienc… Read More “Exclusive-China took part in leaders’ AI meeting even though UK did not acknowledge”

By Brenda Goh and Paul Sandle SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) – China said it attended a top-level ministerial meeting at the UK AI Safety Summit on Thursday, despite not being listed by Britain among the “like-minded” participants and not featuring in official handshakes or the family photograph. China’s absence sparked questions because it participated in the first day of the two-day summit on the safety of “frontier” artificial intelligence, and Britain declined to say why Beijing was not among those joining the second day’s senior meeting. China’s delegate to the meeting, Vice Minister of Scienc… Read More “Exclusive-China took part in leaders’ AI meeting even though UK did not acknowledge”

At Palantir Technologies Inc.’s (NYSE:PLTR) recent earnings call, company CEO Alex Karp proclaimed, “AIP and U.S. commercial, not only is disrupting the market, it’s setting a standard that I don’t believe any other software company will be able to reach….” The 56-year-old, who co-founded a company that has already amassed $38.67 billion in market cap from humble beginnings in 2003, was very bullish on his company’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) and U.S. commercial. On the company’s third-quarter earnings call, per a transcript on Seeking Alpha, the company’s executive’s laid out its … Read More “Palantir CEO Alex Karp Declares Market Disruption With Artificial Intelligence”

President Joe Biden recently announced a new executive order targeting the sector of artificial intelligence. With Biden’s announcement and Vice President Kamala Harris declaring new AI plans for the U.S., the country looks ready to tackle regulation on the fast-growing sector. Aside from Biden and Harris, there could be another U.S. political figure pulling the strings who helped craft the country’s plan for AI. What Happened: Biden’s executive order was aimed at placing safety as a top priority within the artificial intelligence space. Companies that includeMicrosoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Meta… Read More “Did Barack Obama Help Create Biden’s AI Plan?”

By Martin Coulter and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak championed a series of landmark agreements after hosting the first artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit but a global plan for overseeing the technology remains a long way off. Over two days of talks between World leaders, business executives and researchers, tech CEOs such as Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman rubbed shoulders with the likes of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to discuss the future regulation of AI. Leaders from 28 nations – including… Read More “Analysis-AI summit a start but global agreement a distant hope”

By Martin Coulter and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak championed a series of landmark agreements after hosting the first artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit but a global plan for overseeing the technology remains a long way off. Over two days of talks between World leaders, business executives and researchers, tech CEOs such as Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman rubbed shoulders with the likes of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to discuss the future regulation of AI. Leaders from 28 nations – including… Read More “Analysis-AI summit a start but global agreement a distant hope”

As usual, the World’s biggest liars and would-be tyrants want to root out “misinformation” and protect “democracy.” In this case, however, the liars and would-be tyrants in President Joe Biden’s administration, led by Vice President Kamala Harris, lack the competence to carry out an assigned task. Thus, according to NBC News, Biden has turned to one of his predecessors, former President Barack Obama. On Monday, Biden announced an executive order designed to impose government regulation of artificial intelligence. “To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risk, we need to govern this technolo… Read More “Biden Secretly Brought in Obama for Key Role After Harris Failed Miserably”

By Ian Krietzberg Last week, Cruise, the robotaxi unit under the umbrella of General Motors GM, shuttered its driverless operations across all its fleets for the foreseeable future. The decision to do so came days after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the company’s license to operate driverless vehicles in the state, citing safety concerns. The operational pause was initiated, according to a statement, to give Cruise more time to re-examine the safety of its processes and systems. “The most important thing for us right now is to take steps to rebuild public trust,” Cruise s… Read More “Cathie Wood reveals the truth behind Elon Musk’s fruitless self-driving predictions”

By FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP Elon Musk said his new artificial intelligence company would release a new AI model on Saturday to a “select group” of users as he looks to rival industry leaders OpenAI and Google. Elon Musk said his new artificial intelligence company would release a new AI model on Saturday to a “select group” of users as he looks to rival industry leaders OpenAI and Google. The release would be the first from Musk’s new startup, xAI, that he launched in July after hiring researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Tesla and the University of Toronto. “Tomorrow, xAI will release its… Read More “Musk’s xAI to release first AI model to ‘select group’”

By Nicolas Martinez Is Thanasis Antetokounmpo only in the league because of his brother? Amid the Bucks’ early-season struggles, that question has become more and more frequent in the community. But amid growing criticism towards Thanasis, Cavaliers rookie Emoni Bates stood up for the 6’6″ forward and shot down the notion that he’s undeserving of his roster spot. “Y’all quick to call somebody trash. Y’all don’t even know what dude been through and what he had to do to get her,” wrote Bates on Instagram. “He’s probably one of the best locker room guys. He keeps the energy up, makes sure to do h… Read More “Emoni Bates Defends Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Brother, Thanasis, After Internet Backlash”