The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023
Here’s who made the 2023 TIME100 AI list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence.
The AI Debate
Blockchain, the tech behind bitcoin, may have found its 'killer use case' by keeping AI in check
Blockchain could be used to prevent bias in the data that artificial intelligence models are being trained on, executives tell CNBC.
Meet the Women Working to Make AI a Force for Good | Elle Canada
Chatting with Hilke Schellmann, author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted and Fired.
Can philosophy help us get a grip on the consequences of AI? | Aeon Essays
Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?
AI For Good Lab - Microsoft Research
The Microsoft AI For Good team helps researchers and organizations reach solutions on some of the world’s biggest problems.
OpenAI LP
We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.
AI Safety: UK and US sign landmark agreement
The new agreement will see the countries pool knowledge and resources to strengthen safety testing of AI models
Shared from Copilot: Sustainable by design: Advancing the sustainability of AI - The Official Microsoft Blog
During the past year, the pace of AI adoption has accelerated significantly, ushering in groundbreaking advances, discoveries and solutions with the potential to help address humanity’s biggest problems. We see this as a massive platform shift, akin to the printing press, which was not just an invention, but a technology that shaped a new economy....
Microsoft announces new health-care AI tools
Microsoft announced a series of new health-care data and AI tools for clinicians on Thursday.
AI can already diagnose depression better than a doctor and tell you which treatment is best
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionise the way we diagnose and treat illness. It could be particularly helpful for depression because it could make more accurate diagnoses and determine which treatments are more likely to work. Some 20% of us will have depression at least once in our lifetimes. Around the world, 300 million32279-7/...
Meet the Women Working to Make AI a Force for Good
Artificial intelligence, with its scaremongering headlines around its future and ours, doesn’t get good press. But there are a number of women in the field working to detoxify AI, and they say now is the time to pay attention and get involved
AI Has A Giant, Destructive Flaw
This could break the AI hype train.
Microsoft is banning police from using its AI for facial recognition
Microsoft said its Azure OpenAI Service must not be used "by or for" U.S. police for facial recognition purposes
The Prompt with Trevor Noah | Episode 4: How can large language models help people combat addiction? - Microsoft Research
What if you could have a friendly chat with an AI coach that knows how to help you quit smoking? That’s the idea behind Dr. Jonathan Bricker’s research, which uses large language models to create conversational agents that can support and motivate smokers to kick the habit. In this episode, Trevor Noah talks to Dr. […]
Statement on AI Risk | CAIS
A statement jointly signed by a historic coalition of experts: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
ChatGPT gives better answers to health-related questions than human physicians, study finds
A study found ChatGPT's responses to health-related questions on Reddit’s r/AskDocs superior to physicians' 79% of the time, with higher quality and empathy ratings, though more research is needed for clinical applications.
BUSTED! Sama says AI consumes less water and it was all a hoax by anti-AI activists (2 images) : r/singularity
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
In this op-ed, politics editor Lex McMenamin explains why using AI to search "how to be sustainable" could be accomplishing the opposite.
Accelerating Sustainability with AI: Innovations for a Better Future
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.
Industrial AI & sustainability: Opportunities, challenges, and the path forward - Thomson Reuters Institute
Industrial AI offers significant potential for enhancing corporate sustainability strategies, but widespread adoption faces stiff challenges.
While innovations — like DeepSeek’s announcement that it engineered hacks to address pre-training costs in its reported efforts to achieve high performance with dramatically less computation power — are notable, many agree that the dropping cost of AI usage on a per token basis will actually increase demand of AI and thus increase the overall energy demand on a global scale. (A token is a unit of measurement that calculates the cost of processing power of large language models.)