
Sensemaker Audio
OpenAI takes on Google
The company that created an AI-powered chatbot called ChatGPT poses a threat to Googleâs dominance as the market-leading search engine. Is it a sign of things to come?
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The company that created an AI-powered chatbot called ChatGPT poses a threat to Googleâs dominance as the market-leading search engine. Is it a sign of things to come?
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Artificial intelligence is being used to create works of art in seconds. What can human artists do to protect their livelihoods against the machines?
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Ai-Da made history when she became the first robot to give evidence to the House of Lords. The hearing was an important examination of the role of artificial intelligence in the arts.
Visible Women
In this bonus episode, Caroline Criado Perez speaks to a woman called Hayley Moulding about her experience of AI-gone-wrong â and tries to get to the bottom of why voice recognition software is so bad at recognising womenâs voices
Visible Women
Artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve so much of our lives. But in a world where womenâs heart attacks are already systematically under-diagnosed, AI might actually be making healthcare worse for women
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Claims that Googleâs AI has become sentient raise questions about the possibility of machine consciousness, and the threat of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence.
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Consciousness is a tricky subject. Academics, philosophers, artists and mathematicians have grappled with its definition for centuries. Thereâs something mysterious about our perception of the world, and the way it gives rise to the feeling of conscious being. Something mysterious that makes us who we are.With the increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence models â like Googleâs LaMDA â questions about the nature of consciousness are surfacing. Can a programme be sentient? Do other animals possess a form of consciousness similar to ours? Do conscious things deserve particular rights? The brain and the body, the nervous system and the senses, all seem to play a role. What on earth is going on in there? editor and invited experts Luke GbedemahData Reporter Anil SethProfessor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex; Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness; Author of âBeing You: a new science of consciousnessâ
Tech States Sensemaker
Is Googleâs AI starting to think like a human?
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The company that created an AI-powered chatbot called ChatGPT poses a threat to Googleâs dominance as the market-leading search engine. Is it a sign of things to come?
Sensemaker Audio
Artificial intelligence is being used to create works of art in seconds. What can human artists do to protect their livelihoods against the machines?
Sensemaker Audio
Ai-Da made history when she became the first robot to give evidence to the House of Lords. The hearing was an important examination of the role of artificial intelligence in the arts.
Visible Women
In this bonus episode, Caroline Criado Perez speaks to a woman called Hayley Moulding about her experience of AI-gone-wrong â and tries to get to the bottom of why voice recognition software is so bad at recognising womenâs voices
Visible Women
Artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve so much of our lives. But in a world where womenâs heart attacks are already systematically under-diagnosed, AI might actually be making healthcare worse for women
Sensemaker Audio
Claims that Googleâs AI has become sentient raise questions about the possibility of machine consciousness, and the threat of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence.
Sensemaker
âKiller robotsâ are already being developed and used by lots of countries. But if these machines are really autonomous, who do we blame if things go wrong?
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Countries are being pushed into a future of AI rivalry. Of the US versus China. But thereâs an alternative foreign policy for us all to pursue â built on cooperation
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Consciousness is a tricky subject. Academics, philosophers, artists and mathematicians have grappled with its definition for centuries. Thereâs something mysterious about our perception of the world, and the way it gives rise to the feeling of conscious being. Something mysterious that makes us who we are.With the increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence models â like Googleâs LaMDA â questions about the nature of consciousness are surfacing. Can a programme be sentient? Do other animals possess a form of consciousness similar to ours? Do conscious things deserve particular rights? The brain and the body, the nervous system and the senses, all seem to play a role. What on earth is going on in there? editor and invited experts Luke GbedemahData Reporter Anil SethProfessor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex; Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness; Author of âBeing You: a new science of consciousnessâ
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In partnership with Kainos, Tortoise hosted a roundtable event that addressed the complexities of building trust in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The topic for the event was centred around a recently published report that Tortoise and Kainos collaborated on, with the help of over 20 leading experts in ethical and responsible AI: a piece of work that explores how the misuse of artificial intelligence can be addressed to build a future of trust for everyone. For this event, we invited some of the reportsâ contributing experts to help us unpack some of these challenges. What? Beyond the three hypotheses that our report puts forward, education was discussed as a key component to creating trust: Dr. David Leslie, pointed out that we need upskilling in terms of understanding what goes on under the hood, but also need some ethical vocabularies to evaluate impacts of AI. A âgroundswell of educationâ is needed, said Tim Gordon. AI Network member, Natalie Lafferty, noted that in education spaces we really need to understand the implications of all this given the potential harms from misuse. We also need something to stimulate learning in the long term says Nell Watson, Chair of ECPAIS Transparency Expert Focus Group at the IEEE â a thought that resonated with suggestions in the chat that called for more imaginative ways to provide education about AI; might we see a gamification of these conversations to help young people learn? When it comes to ethical best practice, many of the members and experts on the call felt we are still in murky waters: standards, though beginning to emerge, are urgently needed to help solidify trustworthiness across the wide range of AI practitioners and products. Who? The AI ethicist, a new professional role that may help to improve trust in those who develop AI systems, was called into question by Dr. Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem. She suggested that we really need to ask who this person is? But professionalisation is not the only factor; if we are looking to measure impacts, David felt that we need to prioritise stakeholders who are impacted by AI usage. Many existing efforts to establish guard rails around AI development with ethics are not inclusive enough: âthe table belongs to everybody from the beginningâ, said Emma. This raised the question of whether the current conversation is dominated by Western perspectives â a view that resonated with many audience members, including Abeba Birhane who noted that Africans are notably not present in many of these kinds of conversation. Why? Corporate carrot and stick; Tim Gordon and Nell both felt there is a) a business incentive and b) a regulatory hammer that will push corporations to be proactive about ethical AI practices. The scene is also being set for heightened public awareness about AI: as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly powerful and embedded into our everyday lives, we may see a moment of sustained moral panic, said Nell. But Dr. David Leslie, wants us to be cautious though about how we approach the future of technology: letâs not be too hasty to anthropomorphise it. What next? For true democratic governance of AI, we need to step back and think about longer term patterns that are structural, says David. Citizen consultations and understanding how actual users are impacted by AI technologies emerged as a possible route to enable a greater well-placed trust across the board. Illustration: Laurie Avon for Tortoise editor and invited experts Luke GbedemahReporter, Tortoise Dr David LeslieDirector of Ethics and Responsible Innovation Research, The Alan Turing Institute Nell WatsonChair of ECPAIS Transparency Expert Focus Group, IEEE Peter CampbellData & AI Practice Director, Kainos Tim GordonPartner, Best Practice AI
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This is a digital-only ThinkIn.Businesses face a number of obstacles when it comes to adopting or absorbing more artificial intelligence. From the availability of talent to making a financial case for investment; these challenges demand unique and sector-specific solutions. Almost all companies have an incentive to adopt, and they do face some common challenges when it comes to doing so responsibly; not least creating trust, appropriate governance and navigating regulation. How can businesses ensure that they approach adoption in a way that protects stakeholders, observes regulation and puts value for their people at the centre of AI projects? editor and invited experts Alexi MostrousEditor, Tortoise Media Anand RaoGlobal Head of AI, PwC Caroline GorskiGroup Director of RÂČ Data Labs, Rolls Royce
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This is a digital-only ThinkIn.How will AI change the world over the next 20 years? Weâre told the technology has the power to transform humanity, but will it precipitate a cleaner, more connected utopia, or something altogether more sinister? Every part of our lives will be affected â how we communicate and learn, how we live, work and play. There are few people in the world who understand AI better than Kai-Fu Lee, one of the worldâs leading computer scientists, former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers. In his latest book AI 2041, Lee teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to tell the stories and the science behind our AI-driven future. editor James HardingCo-founder and Editor
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This is a newsroom ThinkIn. In-person and digital-only tickets are available.Azeem Azhar, writer, entrepreneur and creator of the hit Exponential View newsletter and podcast â argues that accelerating technology risks leaving our social institutions behind, with devastating implications for our way of life. His newsletter, Exponential View is regarded as one of the best researched and most thought-provoking newsletters in tech. In his new book, Azhar draws on nearly three decades of conversations with the worldâs leading thinkers, to outline models that explain the effects technology is having on society. New technology, he shows, is developing at an increasing, exponential rate. But human-built institutions â from our businesses to our political norms â can only ever adapt at a slower, incremental pace. The result is an âexponential gapâ â between the power of new technology and our ability to keep up.  Pre-order Azeemâs book Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It. editor Alexi MostrousInvestigations Editor
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âI think that AI will be a technological revolution on the scale of the agricultural, the industrial, the computer revolution.âOpenAI Advert Sam Altmann is one of the founders of OpenAI, an American technology company which is taking the world by storm. It specialises in Artificial Intelligence: machines which are designed to perform any task a human being is capable of. Alexi Mostrous writes Tortoiseâs tech newsletter. He says OpenAI was set up by a group of people who were worried about the direction that advanced artificial intelligence was heading. âOpenAI was set up in 2015 by this dream team of Silicon Valley pioneers. So Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Teal, the founder of PayPal. They came together and, put in collectively, I think it was a billion dollars to start this nonprofit organization called OpenAI. AI was developing a really, really quick pace, and they wanted a nonprofit to be at the forefront of that development to make sure that it was developed in a safe way. So, so they said at some point in the next, you know, five years, 15 years, 50 years, weâre going to reach a point where artificial intelligence is as intelligent as human intelligence, and that is fundamentally a really dangerous position for the world to be. Like, think Terminator Two type destruction.âAlexi Mostrous The most striking product that OpenAI has created is ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot which can create a response to whatever you ask it⊠âThe question isnât what can it do? Itâs like, what canât it do? Because it can code for you. It can write an essay, it can mark an essay, it can write a screenplay, a comedy sketch, a poem. Itâs pretty impressive. You can ask it very, very detailed things like write a poem about a horse in the style of William Shakespeare and like within two seconds youâve got a sonnet about a horse. Itâs pretty, pretty mad.âAlex Mostrous Itâs so good that just over a week after launching, ChatGPT had more than a million regular users⊠and it began to get the likes of Microsoft and Google worried. *** âArtificial Intelligence has been around for years nowâŠâChat Bot SFX ⊠But the technology that OpenAI has been developing is leagues ahead of anything weâve seen before. âThe key difference between the products that Open AI are producing and current or mainstream AI that you might see in products like Siri is that itâs on a different scale in terms of intelligence and, and data points. So ChatGPT uses an exponentially greater number of data points to create the answers that itâs producing. So itâs a real step change in sophistication. Itâs just like comparing a remote control car that you might give to a three year old with a Ferrari.âAlexi Mostrous ChatGPT could replace traditional search engines, which is why Google executives have issued a âcode redâ for the company⊠âGoogle is pretty terrified of all. because Google search has been so dominant for years and years and years, and suddenly this AI has come along that could pose a real threat. So what weâre gonna see from Google is that theyâve got their own technology to rival open AIâs technology, but they havenât really been releasing it very fast until now. But now theyâre under huge pressure to get those AI products outta the door. So in the next 18 months, youâre gonna. All the major big tech companies, I think pushing out AI based products.âAlexi Mostrous When we asked ChatGPT if it would replace Google search, it replied with this message: âChatbots often rely on search engines. So while they may provide a useful service, they are not a threat to search engines like Google.âChat Bot SFX However, one of its creators, Sam Altman, disagreed⊠âWith the quality of of language models weâll see in the coming years you know there will be like a serious challenge to Google for the first time for for a search product.âSam Altman Microsoft has jumped at the opportunity to capitalise on OpenAIs technology and sees it as a chance to overtake its rival, Google. In 2019 the company invested $1 billion in OpenAI. Then in January of this year, Microsoft announced another $10 billion of investment. A clear sign that OpenAIâs technology is headed for big things. So could a world where machines do the jobs of humans be closer than we think? *** Artificial Intelligence is already transforming the way we live and work but OpenAIâs supporters say it could be a force for good: âDoctors or nurses that they spent 40 to 60 percent of their working hours for documentation then I mean this we want to direct to the machine so that they have more times with the patients you see if we only use it for rationalisation that they then later on I mean twice as many patients.âDW News Hereâs Alexi Mostrous again⊠âI think everyone knows that AI, and especially AI of the sort that youâve seen in ChatGPT is gonna have an enormous, massive, huge effect on how we work. Thousands, millions of people are going to lose their jobs because of AI, and almost equal numbers are gonna gain jobs because of the opportunities that AI might create. But thereâs no doubt that thereâs going to be a massive shift because of AI technology. What is unclear at the moment is what sort of jobs will be replaced. So the ones most at risk are the sort of low level jobs. So letâs say you are a 22 year old copywriter for an advertising agency like that job gone.âAlexi Mostrous Companies like OpenAI are all too aware of what could happen if humans lose control of the technology. Hereâs OpenAI founder Sam Altman again: âThe alignment problem is like weâre going to make this incredibly powerful system and like be really bad if it doesnât do what we want or or if it sort of has you know goals that are either in conflict with ours and many Sci-Fi movies about what happens there or goals where it just like doesnât care about us that much and so the alignment problem is how do we build AGI that that does what is in the best interest of humanity.âSam Altman Advanced artificial intelligence being developed by companies like OpenAI needs to be handled carefully if itâs going to enhance our lives rather than take over them. This episode was written and mixed by Rebecca Moore.
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âI think that AI will be a technological revolution on the scale of the agricultural, the industrial, the computer revolution.âOpenAI Advert Sam Altmann is one of the founders of OpenAI, an American technology company which is taking the world by storm. It specialises in Artificial Intelligence: machines which are designed to perform any task a human being is capable of. Alexi Mostrous writes Tortoiseâs tech newsletter. He says OpenAI was set up by a group of people who were worried about the direction that advanced artificial intelligence was heading. âOpenAI was set up in 2015 by this dream team of Silicon Valley pioneers. So Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Teal, the founder of PayPal. They came together and, put in collectively, I think it was a billion dollars to start this nonprofit organization called OpenAI. AI was developing a really, really quick pace, and they wanted a nonprofit to be at the forefront of that development to make sure that it was developed in a safe way. So, so they said at some point in the next, you know, five years, 15 years, 50 years, weâre going to reach a point where artificial intelligence is as intelligent as human intelligence, and that is fundamentally a really dangerous position for the world to be. Like, think Terminator Two type destruction.âAlexi Mostrous The most striking product that OpenAI has created is ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot which can create a response to whatever you ask it⊠âThe question isnât what can it do? Itâs like, what canât it do? Because it can code for you. It can write an essay, it can mark an essay, it can write a screenplay, a comedy sketch, a poem. Itâs pretty impressive. You can ask it very, very detailed things like write a poem about a horse in the style of William Shakespeare and like within two seconds youâve got a sonnet about a horse. Itâs pretty, pretty mad.âAlex Mostrous Itâs so good that just over a week after launching, ChatGPT had more than a million regular users⊠and it began to get the likes of Microsoft and Google worried. *** âArtificial Intelligence has been around for years nowâŠâChat Bot SFX ⊠But the technology that OpenAI has been developing is leagues ahead of anything weâve seen before. âThe key difference between the products that Open AI are producing and current or mainstream AI that you might see in products like Siri is that itâs on a different scale in terms of intelligence and, and data points. So ChatGPT uses an exponentially greater number of data points to create the answers that itâs producing. So itâs a real step change in sophistication. Itâs just like comparing a remote control car that you might give to a three year old with a Ferrari.âAlexi Mostrous ChatGPT could replace traditional search engines, which is why Google executives have issued a âcode redâ for the company⊠âGoogle is pretty terrified of all. because Google search has been so dominant for years and years and years, and suddenly this AI has come along that could pose a real threat. So what weâre gonna see from Google is that theyâve got their own technology to rival open AIâs technology, but they havenât really been releasing it very fast until now. But now theyâre under huge pressure to get those AI products outta the door. So in the next 18 months, youâre gonna. All the major big tech companies, I think pushing out AI based products.âAlexi Mostrous When we asked ChatGPT if it would replace Google search, it replied with this message: âChatbots often rely on search engines. So while they may provide a useful service, they are not a threat to search engines like Google.âChat Bot SFX However, one of its creators, Sam Altman, disagreed⊠âWith the quality of of language models weâll see in the coming years you know there will be like a serious challenge to Google for the first time for for a search product.âSam Altman Microsoft has jumped at the opportunity to capitalise on OpenAIs technology and sees it as a chance to overtake its rival, Google. In 2019 the company invested $1 billion in OpenAI. Then in January of this year, Microsoft announced another $10 billion of investment. A clear sign that OpenAIâs technology is headed for big things. So could a world where machines do the jobs of humans be closer than we think? *** Artificial Intelligence is already transforming the way we live and work but OpenAIâs supporters say it could be a force for good: âDoctors or nurses that they spent 40 to 60 percent of their working hours for documentation then I mean this we want to direct to the machine so that they have more times with the patients you see if we only use it for rationalisation that they then later on I mean twice as many patients.âDW News Hereâs Alexi Mostrous again⊠âI think everyone knows that AI, and especially AI of the sort that youâve seen in ChatGPT is gonna have an enormous, massive, huge effect on how we work. Thousands, millions of people are going to lose their jobs because of AI, and almost equal numbers are gonna gain jobs because of the opportunities that AI might create. But thereâs no doubt that thereâs going to be a massive shift because of AI technology. What is unclear at the moment is what sort of jobs will be replaced. So the ones most at risk are the sort of low level jobs. So letâs say you are a 22 year old copywriter for an advertising agency like that job gone.âAlexi Mostrous Companies like OpenAI are all too aware of what could happen if humans lose control of the technology. Hereâs OpenAI founder Sam Altman again: âThe alignment problem is like weâre going to make this incredibly powerful system and like be really bad if it doesnât do what we want or or if it sort of has you know goals that are either in conflict with ours and many Sci-Fi movies about what happens there or goals where it just like doesnât care about us that much and so the alignment problem is how do we build AGI that that does what is in the best interest of humanity.âSam Altman Advanced artificial intelligence being developed by companies like OpenAI needs to be handled carefully if itâs going to enhance our lives rather than take over them. This episode was written and mixed by Rebecca Moore.
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âI think that AI will be a technological revolution on the scale of the agricultural, the industrial, the computer revolution.âOpenAI Advert Sam Altmann is one of the founders of OpenAI, an American technology company which is taking the world by storm. It specialises in Artificial Intelligence: machines which are designed to perform any task a human being is capable of. Alexi Mostrous writes Tortoiseâs tech newsletter. He says OpenAI was set up by a group of people who were worried about the direction that advanced artificial intelligence was heading. âOpenAI was set up in 2015 by this dream team of Silicon Valley pioneers. So Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Teal, the founder of PayPal. They came together and, put in collectively, I think it was a billion dollars to start this nonprofit organization called OpenAI. AI was developing a really, really quick pace, and they wanted a nonprofit to be at the forefront of that development to make sure that it was developed in a safe way. So, so they said at some point in the next, you know, five years, 15 years, 50 years, weâre going to reach a point where artificial intelligence is as intelligent as human intelligence, and that is fundamentally a really dangerous position for the world to be. Like, think Terminator Two type destruction.âAlexi Mostrous The most striking product that OpenAI has created is ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot which can create a response to whatever you ask it⊠âThe question isnât what can it do? Itâs like, what canât it do? Because it can code for you. It can write an essay, it can mark an essay, it can write a screenplay, a comedy sketch, a poem. Itâs pretty impressive. You can ask it very, very detailed things like write a poem about a horse in the style of William Shakespeare and like within two seconds youâve got a sonnet about a horse. Itâs pretty, pretty mad.âAlex Mostrous Itâs so good that just over a week after launching, ChatGPT had more than a million regular users⊠and it began to get the likes of Microsoft and Google worried. *** âArtificial Intelligence has been around for years nowâŠâChat Bot SFX ⊠But the technology that OpenAI has been developing is leagues ahead of anything weâve seen before. âThe key difference between the products that Open AI are producing and current or mainstream AI that you might see in products like Siri is that itâs on a different scale in terms of intelligence and, and data points. So ChatGPT uses an exponentially greater number of data points to create the answers that itâs producing. So itâs a real step change in sophistication. Itâs just like comparing a remote control car that you might give to a three year old with a Ferrari.âAlexi Mostrous ChatGPT could replace traditional search engines, which is why Google executives have issued a âcode redâ for the company⊠âGoogle is pretty terrified of all. because Google search has been so dominant for years and years and years, and suddenly this AI has come along that could pose a real threat. So what weâre gonna see from Google is that theyâve got their own technology to rival open AIâs technology, but they havenât really been releasing it very fast until now. But now theyâre under huge pressure to get those AI products outta the door. So in the next 18 months, youâre gonna. All the major big tech companies, I think pushing out AI based products.âAlexi Mostrous When we asked ChatGPT if it would replace Google search, it replied with this message: âChatbots often rely on search engines. So while they may provide a useful service, they are not a threat to search engines like Google.âChat Bot SFX However, one of its creators, Sam Altman, disagreed⊠âWith the quality of of language models weâll see in the coming years you know there will be like a serious challenge to Google for the first time for for a search product.âSam Altman Microsoft has jumped at the opportunity to capitalise on OpenAIs technology and sees it as a chance to overtake its rival, Google. In 2019 the company invested $1 billion in OpenAI. Then in January of this year, Microsoft announced another $10 billion of investment. A clear sign that OpenAIâs technology is headed for big things. So could a world where machines do the jobs of humans be closer than we think? *** Artificial Intelligence is already transforming the way we live and work but OpenAIâs supporters say it could be a force for good: âDoctors or nurses that they spent 40 to 60 percent of their working hours for documentation then I mean this we want to direct to the machine so that they have more times with the patients you see if we only use it for rationalisation that they then later on I mean twice as many patients.âDW News Hereâs Alexi Mostrous again⊠âI think everyone knows that AI, and especially AI of the sort that youâve seen in ChatGPT is gonna have an enormous, massive, huge effect on how we work. Thousands, millions of people are going to lose their jobs because of AI, and almost equal numbers are gonna gain jobs because of the opportunities that AI might create. But thereâs no doubt that thereâs going to be a massive shift because of AI technology. What is unclear at the moment is what sort of jobs will be replaced. So the ones most at risk are the sort of low level jobs. So letâs say you are a 22 year old copywriter for an advertising agency like that job gone.âAlexi Mostrous Companies like OpenAI are all too aware of what could happen if humans lose control of the technology. Hereâs OpenAI founder Sam Altman again: âThe alignment problem is like weâre going to make this incredibly powerful system and like be really bad if it doesnât do what we want or or if it sort of has you know goals that are either in conflict with ours and many Sci-Fi movies about what happens there or goals where it just like doesnât care about us that much and so the alignment problem is how do we build AGI that that does what is in the best interest of humanity.âSam Altman Advanced artificial intelligence being developed by companies like OpenAI needs to be handled carefully if itâs going to enhance our lives rather than take over them. This episode was written and mixed by Rebecca Moore.
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Is Googleâs AI starting to think like a human?
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The fourth iteration of the Tortoise Global AI Index, which ranks 62 countries on their capacity for AI development, is released today. Its key finding: levels of global investment into artificial intelligence have surged to record levels
We brought together leading thinkers from around the world to discuss the responsible development and deployment of AI. Hereâs what we learned on the day
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Britain must teach artificial intelligence in schools and nurture ambitious start-ups if it is to remain a leader in the field
The country comes third in Tortoiseâs AI Index, which seems impressive until you start looking closerâŠ
We very much hope that you were able to join us at the Global AI summit last Thursday. We had more than 1,500 guests tune in to catch the results of the 2020 Tortoise Global AI Index, to discuss the geo-politics of AI, to examine its impact on talent, investment, and the most recent technological breakthroughs
The UK slips back and China gains ground on the USA