Vinod Khosla isn’t worried about a sentient AI destroying mankind. Duy Ho/FORTUNE As artificial intelligence advances at an unprecedented pace, factions are emerging within Silicon Valley. One camp, often dubbed “doomers,” frets about the risk of an apocalyptic scenario in which AI brings about the destruction of the world. On the flip side, there are …
Sal Khan, who is responsible for teaching more than 130 million students about writing, reading and math as the founder of free online learning nonprofit Khan Academy, recognized AI’s potential to open the cheating floodgates from the moment he got access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology in 2022. “That first weekend we had access, we were …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Tech for Good Summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris, on May 23, 2018. Ludovic Martin—AFP/Getty Images As recently as 2010, the internet was simply the bee’s knees—it was drawing humanity together, bringing authoritarians to heel, and generally creating solutions to any problem you’d care to think of. And …
A little more than a year ago, the world seemed to wake up to the promise and dangers of artificial intelligence when OpenAI released ChatGPT, an application that enables users to converse with a computer in a singularly human way. Within five days, the chatbot had a million users. Within two months, it was logging …
G42 CEO Peng Xiao onstage at the Fortune Global Forum in November. Katarina Premfors In the AI arms race, the world’s superpowers are increasingly forcing prospective allies to pick sides—the U.S. or China. And this week, a major Emirati technology company threw its lot in with the U.S. UAE-based G42, which the Biden administration has …