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Nov 21, 2023

Meta is giving researchers more access to Facebook and Instagram data

Posted by in category: futurism

There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.

Nov 21, 2023

What Is AGI And Why You Should Care

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AGI (or Artificial General Intelligence) is something (in my view) everyone should know about and think about.

Nov 21, 2023

Without Human Values, What Stops AI From Acting As A Sociopath?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI), much like a sociopath, inherently shows no regard for right and wrong.


Human values need to be integrated into large language models. Can this be done democratically?

Nov 21, 2023

How AI Became A Cloud ‘Workload’

Posted by in categories: governance, robotics/AI, security

Good technologies disappear.


In the company’s cloud market study, almost all organizations say that security, reliability and disaster recovery are important considerations in their AI strategy. Also key is the need to manage and support AI workloads at scale. In the area of AI data rulings and regulation, many firms think that AI data governance requirements will force them to more comprehensively understand and track data sources, data age and other key data attributes.

“AI technologies will drive the need for new backup and data protection solutions,” said Debojyoti ‘Debo’ Dutta, vice president of engineering for AI at Nutanix. “[Many companies are] planning to add mission-critical, production-level data protection and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions to support AI data governance. Security professionals are racing to use AI-based solutions to improve threat and anomaly detection, prevention and recovery while bad actors race to use AI-based tools to create new malicious applications, improve success rates and attack surfaces, and improve detection avoidance.”

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Nov 21, 2023

General Motors CEO Mary Barra Tries To Reassure Cruise Staff After Cofounders’ Resignations

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

In an all-hands video conference call to Cruise staff on Monday afternoon, General Motors CEO Mary Barra attempted to re-energize the staff of Cruise, GM’s on-edge autonomous vehicle subsidiary, after its CEO and chief product officers both resigned following several weeks of enormous setbacks for the company.

Nov 21, 2023

Is OpenAI ‘Dead To Businesses Building With It’? Altman Ouster Has Customers Seeking Alternatives

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

As OpenAI employees threaten a mass exodus in the wake of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster by the board of directors, some OpenAI customers are beginning to look for the exits.


Startups built on OpenAI’s technology are looking for new options after the boardroom coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman.

Nov 21, 2023

Effective Altruism Contributed To The Fiasco At OpenAI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI’s board abruptly fired co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on Friday.


The chaos at OpenAI in response to CEO Sam Altman’s firing reveals the problematic influence of the Effective Altruism movement.

Nov 21, 2023

‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

The original definition of the chosen word is to “seem to see, hear, feel, or smell” something that does not exist, usually because of “a health condition or because you have taken a drug”


The psychological verb gained an extra meaning in 2023 that ‘gets to the heart of why people are talking about artificial intelligence’

Nov 21, 2023

Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Sam Altman and the OpenAI board are now in talks for his possible return, specifically he’s speaking with Adam d’Angelo.


Sam Altman and members of the OpenAI board have opened negotiations aimed at a possible return of the ousted co-founder and chief executive officer to the artificial intelligence company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Discussions are happening between Altman and at least one board member, Adam D’Angelo, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private and they may not come to fruition. The talks also involve some of OpenAI’s investors, many of whom are pushing for his reinstatement, one of the people said.

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Nov 21, 2023

Ford to scale back plans for $3.5 billion Michigan battery plant as EV demand disappoints, labor costs rise

Posted by in categories: employment, sustainability, transportation

Ford said Tuesday it is cutting production capacity by roughly 43% to 20 gigawatt hours per year and reducing expected employment from 2,500 jobs to 1,700 jobs. The company declined to disclose how much less it would invest in the plant. Based on the reduced capacity, it would still be about a $2 billion investment.

The decision adds to a recent retreat from EVs by automakers globally. Demand for the vehicles is lower than expected due to higher costs and challenges with supply chains and battery technologies, among other issues.

Reductions at the Marshall, Michigan, plant are part of Ford’s plans announced last month to cut or delay about $12 billion in previously announced EV investments. The company will also postpone construction of another electric vehicle battery plant in Kentucky.