The human rights of artists is a different concept from intellectual property rights, such as copyright. Intellectual property rights are…

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IRENE Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert.

A study by Yale says, “One consequence of the explosion of artificial intelligence is clear: this technology’s environmental footprint is large and growing.”

Lawmakers in several states are rethinking massive subsidies they've offered to lure data centers, as the costs balloon and they consider how to cope with the growing electricity demand.

A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.

noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA

Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now, there’s no easy way to answer those questions.

When I was in grad school in the 1990s, we talked about “surviving the AI winter.” Explosive, transformative progress in AI had been…

If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

“It’s our job to make sure that we have machinery that we can keep control of,” the Professor of Ethics and Technology says.

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Generative AI, plus growing manufacturing and electric vehicles, is spiking U.S. power demand.

Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.

Some time ago, I was invited to peer-review Deepmind's paper on the ethics of Advanced AI assistants but needed to do my evaluation work at MIT, so it seems…

“Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a…

Their message isn't new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows.

New data centers are springing up every week. Can the Earth sustain them?

No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity

AI Explainer #3. Here's an updated version of the relationship diagram I posted a couple of weeks ago. Getting your head around the relationships between… | 27 comments on LinkedIn

In real life, there’s too much friction, bad design, and customer-unfriendliness compared to the technological awesomeness we see in movies and on TV.

Tech chiefs warn that power-hungry data centres are a bottleneck in developing artificial intelligence

"Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually want.

Drama over YouTuber Marques Brownlee's review of the Humane AI pin shows how much AI is propped up by hype.

This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in…

AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.