Samsung puts ChatGPT back in the box after 'code leak' Others also blocked as company works on its own generative AI tech AI + ML02 May 2023 | 5
IBM's motto is 'Think' – its CEO reckons AI can do that as well as some workers Thousands of back-office jobs to go as Big Blue replaces them with brainboxes AI + ML02 May 2023 | 29
Misinformation tracker warns 'new generation' of AI-scribed content farms on the rise NewsGuard finds 49 websites spewing robo-written garbage to scoop ad money AI + ML02 May 2023 | 13
Top Google boffin Hinton quits, warns of AI danger, partly regrets life's work 'Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now. Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That's scary' AI + ML01 May 2023 | 78
EU legislates disclosure of copyright data used to train AI In brief Watch the AI-generated anti-Biden advert from the GOP, and more AI + ML01 May 2023 | 10
AI models may not yet be safe, but at least we can make them affordable … ish Boffins devise query language for LLMs to make them more civil and less expensive AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 2
Here's how the data we feed AI determines the results Opinion Generative AI hallucinations are the least of our problems AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 32
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145 Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 9
Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI We've progressed from blaming this kinda thing on millennials, immigrants, China, woke libs, etc AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 34
Musk tried to wriggle out of Autopilot grilling by claiming past boasts may be deepfakes Tycoon hopes to swerve deposition in Tesla death crash lawsuit AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 75
President Biden urged to appoint AI officers to regulate this shiny-shiny tech And a pin to pop this hype bubble would be nice, too AI + ML27 Apr 2023 | 7
ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 9
How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's tough to fix Feature In the rush to commercialize LLMs, security got left behind AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 54
Stop OpenAI training its models on your chats by turning off history Also: ChatGPT Business tier will be available in the next few months AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 7
UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom Opinion Dungeon master Sunak talks up 'funky' Silicon Valley sales pitch while schools left without maths teachers AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 99
That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models Figure not a typo, tho it will be paired with £900M 'BritGPT' supercomputer, which is a bit more like it AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 25
US Supreme Court snubs that guy who wants AI recognized as patent inventors No surprise for a panel that appears to enjoy taking away rights rather than granting them AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 49
Tesla wins key court battle over Autopilot crash blame Anyone else who wants to take on Musk, please take note AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 45
Google's AI chatbot Bard catches up to generating code In brief NSFW? You'll need to check outputs for accuracy. Plus: OpenAI CEO says massive model era's over, Microsoft said to be building custom AI chip AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 4
Department of Homeland Security bets on AI to help handle China Secretary worries about critical infrastructure being held to ransom AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 8
Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors 'could be impossible to stop' Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 24
ChatGPT fans need 'defensive mindset' to avoid scammers and malware Palo Alto Networks spots suspicious activity spikes such as naughty domains, phishing, and worse AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 4
Google backs Bard to generate ads, which apparently improves creativity Assures advertisers 'guardrails' will stop anything bad from happening AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 16
Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name? AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 5
What does an ex-Pharma Bro do next? If it's Shkreli, it's an AI Dr bot Martin, for it is him, tells El Reg: 'We've looked around for a real LLM-powered chatbot' AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 33
Oracle offers AI to tell you if those lead times are hogwash It'll also give staff career advice AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 3
How DARPA wants to rethink the fundamentals of AI to include trust Comment Would you trust your life to the current generation of AIs? Yeah, we wouldn't either AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 25
4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ? AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 101
Reddit: If you want to slurp our API to train that LLM, you better pay for it, pal End of free money era and end of free data for building billion-dollar models AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 11
Guy rejects top photo prize after revealing snap was actually made using AI Updated Boris Eldagsen tells El Reg why he did it AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 57
Predict stocks, foresee public opinion, all kinda possible with ChatGPT-like models Boffins foretell LLMs infiltrating finance and politics with confidently held views AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 12
EU lawmakers fear general purpose AI like ChatGPT has already outsmarted regulators Rules proposed in EU AI Act are not enough to control 'very powerful AI' AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 24
Google crams more AI into search as Apple, Samsung sniff around Bing Mountain View may have nothing to fear, though – Microsoft's browser is still the underdog AI + ML17 Apr 2023 | 6
OpenAI CEO confirms biz is not currently training GPT-5 In brief Plus: Elon Musk wants Twitter to develop generative AI, and ChatGPT bots flood Reddit AI + ML17 Apr 2023 | 24
China reportedly let AI control a satellite, which then observed rivals India and Japan Asia in Brief Plus: Warren Buffett’s TSMC worries; CHIPS Act bits China; Japan’s quantum investment; and more AI + ML16 Apr 2023 | 2
Cybercrims hop geofences, clamor for stolen ChatGPT Plus accounts Where there's a will… AI + ML15 Apr 2023 | 11
AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice Updated Bedrock offers APIs for multiple models, plus EC2 instances for home-grown LLMs AI + ML14 Apr 2023 | 2
Don't worry, folks, here comes Chuck Schumer with some ideas about regulating AI As Europe forms task force to steer probes into ChatGPT AI + ML13 Apr 2023 | 20
Italy will say ciao to ChatGPT ban if OpenAI does indeed think of the children Updated And also, privacy safeguards AI + ML13 Apr 2023 | 7
San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis Software fix coming – that'll be a braking change we'd actually like to see AI + ML12 Apr 2023 | 45
Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor If it reflects 'core values of socialism' it'll be fine. No pressure, then, given that chatbots make many mistakes AI + ML12 Apr 2023 | 17
Uncle Sam threatens AI with its nastiest weapon: An audit Commerce Dept knows it needs to know more as it ponders regulation AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 9
What if someone mixed The Sims with ChatGPT bots? It would look like this Has science GONE TOO FAR? AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 50
Alibaba Cloud to offer custom LLMs-as-a-service 'Tongyi Qianwen' will drive cloud consumption, industry-specific AI, and smarter smart speakers AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 3
Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads In Brief Plus: Aussie mayor threatens to sue OpenAI; Minors face ChatGPT ban; President Biden on AI AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 13
Cruise emits software fix after self-driving car slams into bus Robo-ride driven round the bend, or at least, should have AI + ML10 Apr 2023 | 29
Baidu sues Apple and anyone else in sight over ERNIE chatbot fakes Someone in China upset its tech was ripped off? The irony AI + ML10 Apr 2023 | 22
Turns out people don't like it when they suspect a machine's talking to them Also this just in, people not that into insincere messages AI + ML10 Apr 2023 | 65
Why AI inference will remain largely on the CPU It’s a complex argument, but there are good reasons why inference shouldn’t head into accelerators or GPUs Sponsored Feature
Smile! UK cops reckon they've ironed out gremlins with real-time facial recog Report says code has improved – and thousands could still end up falsely ID'd, argue privacy advocates AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 39
Samsung reportedly leaked its own secrets through ChatGPT Well that didn't take long, now did it? AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 45
India to ride the AI rocket responsibly, rather than regulate Also clambers aboard the RISC-V bandwagon AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 1
Google boffins pull back more of the curtain hiding TPU v4 secrets And Nvidia's having none of Big G's claims of superiority AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 7
Canada sticks a privacy probe into OpenAI's ChatGPT Chatbot's overseers accused of collecting, using, disclosing personal info without consent AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 6
Of course Facebook will monetize an ad-generating AI Metaverse was plan A, is this plan B or C, or what? AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 9
ChatGPT becomes ChatRepair to automate bug fixing for less How much, you ask? The answer to everything is $0.42 AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 12
Corporate investment in AI down for first time in a decade Fewer newly funded startups too, according to report AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 4
Alibaba and Huawei set to debut generative AI chatbots China's tech giants show, yet again, they're as much a slave to Silicon Valley fashion as anyone AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 21
Plagiarism-sniffing Turnitin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades Updated Claims 98% confidence, tests suggest a human touch will beat the teachers AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 42
Euro privacy regulators sniff Italy's ChatGPT ban, consider a pizza the action Germany may follow, France and Ireland look for guidance from Rome AI + ML04 Apr 2023 | 20