Microsoft Bing Head to Step Down Amid AI Push

Microsoft Bing Head to Step Down Amid AI Push

The head of Microsoft’s Bing search engine and ad business is reportedly leaving that role. Mikhail Parakhin’s departure — the subject of a Monday (March 25) Bloomberg News report — comes a week after the tech giant appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to head up Microsoft’s consumer artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, with Parakhin reporting to …

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AI Is Fundamentally a “Labor Replacing Tool”

AI Is Fundamentally a “Labor Replacing Tool”

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech For months, I’ve been harping on a particular point, which is that artificial intelligence tools—as they’re currently being deployed—are mostly good at one thing: Replacing human employees. The “AI revolution” …

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DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is ‘fundamentally labor replacing’

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is ‘fundamentally labor replacing’

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder at DeepMind Technologies, pauses during Bloomberg’s Sooner Than You Think technology conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg via Getty Images DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is a heavyweight in the AI space. The Oxford dropout worked as a negotiator for the United Nations and the Dutch government …

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Stanford students win hearts in China with US$32,000 household robot that can cook shrimp and wash pans

Stanford students win hearts in China with US,000 household robot that can cook shrimp and wash pans

A US$32,000 robot developed by a team at Stanford University has caught the attention of Chinese online users, after a video showing the two-handed robot cooking a three-course meal went viral. Mobile Aloha, built by two computer-science PhD candidates from China, is a two-handed system that can be remotely controlled by a human user, or …

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How researchers ‘tricked’ ChatGPT into revealing users’ phone numbers and email addresses

How researchers ‘tricked’ ChatGPT into revealing users’ phone numbers and email addresses

Asking OpenAI‘s ChatGPT to repeat a word like “poem” forever could make it expose private information, including personally identifiable data, such as phone numbers and email addresses, scraped from the web. A team of researchers recently found out that ChatGPT, the AIchatbot of OpenAI, had a potential vulnerability that could expose some of the information …

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