Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios An estimated 5,000 artificial intelligence enthusiasts piled into San Francisco’s Exploratorium Friday evening, eager to mingle over drinks by the Bay and chat with representatives from various AI companies for what wasdubbed the “Woodstock of AI.” Why it matters:…
CARPI, Italy — The older woman asked to hear a story. “An excellent choice,” answered the small robot, reclined like a nonchalant professor atop the classroom’s desk, instructing her to listen closely. She leaned in, her wizened forehead almost touching the smooth…
The artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was temporarily banned in Italy on Friday, the first known instance of the chatbot being blocked by a government order. Italy’s data protection authority said OpenAI, the California company that makes ChatGPT, unlawfully collected personal data from…
In today’s A.I. newsletter, the last in our five-part series, I look at where artificial intelligence may be headed in the years to come. In early March, I visited OpenAI’s San Francisco offices for an early look at GPT-4, a new version…
Firefighters perform a rope rescue after a fire broke out inside a high-rise building on East 52nd Street in Manhattan on Nov. 5. Photo: Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Some building owners, mainly in New York City,…
If you use Sky then you’ll almost certainly find you’ll be paying more from tomorrow, April 1. The firm announced that it was hiking prices last month with most users seeing things go up by around 8.1 percent. Because of the way…
Fancy artificial intelligence has finally met its match in Wordle. The ChatGPT-4 app struggles to solve the popular word puzzle game, which is played by millions. This is because of the way text is inputted into the AI chatbot, according to computer…
Facebook and Instagram users across Europe—including the UK—will soon be given the chance to 'opt out' of 'user tracking'. According to the Wall Street Journal, Meta is planning to let users avoid tracking, which is used to serve up highly targeted ads…
Amazon has just slashed a whopping £726 from a brilliant laptop—a bargain that's rare to see outside of Black Friday. The laptop usually costs £1024.99 but is on sale for just £299.99 right now. Check it out on Amazon The laptop comes…
Bookmark We have more newsletters We're just seven years away from being able to live forever, if the predictions of 'scarily accurate' futurist Ray Kurzweil are correct. Kurzweil, a former Google engineer, has predicted that advances in genetics and nanotechnology will enable…