Cristina Criddle

Trump cuts to academia risk ceding AI lead, warns Microsoft scientist Veteran executive Eric Horvitz argues talent and ideas will move abroad without US support for universities

Microsoft Chief Scientist Eric Horvitz warns that U.S. cuts to academic funding risk ceding the AI lead to rivals like China. He argues that without federal support, the "talent magnet" will move elsewhere. 🌐📉
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It'll support build-out of #DataCentres for #ArtificialIntelligence.

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Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’ The ‘godfather of artificial intelligence’ on ‘the only hope’ for humanity, why China has an advantage — and when machines will outstrip us

NEW: I had lunch with godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto. 🍽️ We chatted about how to design systems to be like our mothers, existential risk and how ChatGPT told him he was “a rat” in his breakup

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Chatbots in the classroom: how AI is reshaping higher education While institutions grapple with the pace of change, technology companies are moving quickly to offer custom learning products

Chatbots in the classroom: how #AI is reshaping higher education
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NEW: Amazon is discussing plans to invest billions more into AI start-up Anthropic as it tries to position itself ahead of Google and capitalise on Microsoft’s fraying OpenAI relationship.

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Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to deepen AI alliance The tech groups are increasingly tied to each other and act as a bulwark to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership

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Amazon is weighing another multi-billion-dollar investment in Anthropic
Already $8bn in, this is an attempt to surpass Google, also an investor, and deepen its partnership with the AI lab
Claude is tied into Alexa & Prime and a 2.2GW data centre project is underway...

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X [FREE TO READ] Incident follows the xAI bot sharing ‘white genocide’ tropes in response to unrelated questions

Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X
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OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data

OpenAI has upped its security:
🍓 keeping staff in “tents” based on projects ie a ‘strawberry tent’ for o1
🛜 systems kept offline by default
🫆fingerprint scanning for access
🪪 more data centre physical security
✔️ new hiring checks

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The world’s leading AI groups are struggling to force AI models to accurately show how they operate, an issue experts have said will be crucial to keeping the powerful systems in check - rpt by @criddle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b349...

Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks [FREE TO READ] ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

EXC: Microsoft has considered walking away from talks with OpenAI over the future of their partnership, instead sitting on a favourable contract that runs until 2030.

Story from @criddle.bsky.social, @tabbykinder.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social

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‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users [FREE TO READ] Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI

“If we build AIs that are smarter than us and are not aligned with us and compete with us, then we’re basically cooked,” @yoshuabengio.bsky.social tells the @financialtimes.com @criddle.bsky.social as he launches a non-profit LawZero to build safer systems

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