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Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers

CEO of DeepMind is ‘not a pessimist’ but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping ‘a middle way’

The Guardian - UK

AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief

Demis Hassabis calls for greater regulation to quell existential fears over tech with above-human levels of intelligence

The Guardian - UK

Google added 1300 staff to UK workforce in 2022

The headcount increase comes ahead of a planned move to Google’s giant new Kings Cross office

Evening Standard

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AI's existential threat is a ‘completely bonkers distraction’ because there are 'like 101 more practical issues' to talk about, top founder in the field says

Suleyman, one of the world’s leading AI experts believes talk of “existential risk stuff” from the likes of Elon Musk distracts from the pressing need for AI regulation.

Fortune

Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential

AlphaMissense’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disorders

The Guardian - UK

How Elon Musk lost a friend over AI: Google co-founder Larry Page just 'refused to hang out' after the Tesla CEO stole his top worker

After Musk tried to sabotage Google’s acquisition of DeepMind, he poached one of Page’s most valuable scientists to OpenAI with a $1.9 million salary.

Fortune

TechScape: As the US election campaign heats up, so could the market for misinformation

Twitter is not the only platform inviting political adverts back, as tech giants from Meta to YouTube compete for marketing money and eyeballs

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Use Nvidia's powerful chips as a 'chokepoint' to force adoption of A.I. regulations, DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman suggests

Nvidia's chips are critical to training A.I. models—giving Washington leverage to push the chipmaker's customers to adopt its rules.

Fortune

‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it

From synthetic organisms to killer drones, Mustafa Suleyman talks about the mind-blowing potential of artificial intelligence, and how we can still avoid catastrophe

The Guardian - UK

Google begins trialling tool that adds a watermark to AI-generated images

SynthID is not "foolproof against extreme image manipulation, but it does provide a promising technical approach".

PC Gamer

The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman review – AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity

The DeepMind co-founder calls for the ‘containment’ of new technology in a heartfelt and candid exploration of what the future may hold for us

The Guardian - UK

Everything you need to know about ‘protein-folding problem’ – but were too afraid to ask

In November 2020, Alphabet’s subsidiary DeepMind got the scientific community excited with its progress in solving the 50-year-old ‘protein-folding problem’.

Newslaundry

Google DeepMind testing ‘personal life coach’ AI tool

AI experts cite ethical concerns over relationships humans may develop with such chatbots

The Guardian - UK

Google’s A.I. is about to breach a new frontier: Life advice, from a chatbot

In the arms race to create hyper-specialized A.I. tools, there’s profit to be made replicating human relationships.

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Google said to be testing new life coach AI for providing helpful advice to people

Google's latest experiment is aimed at helping people tackle life's challenges, but also potentially teaching users new skills.

The Guardian - UK

AI for all? Google ups the ante with free UK training courses for firms

US tech giant starts charm offensive on artificial intelligence with basic courses to help firms understand and exploit emerging phenomenon

LiveScience

AI is transforming every aspect of science. Here's how.

In the future, research labs will embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to tackle wicked problems and speed up scientific discovery.

The Hindu

In AI’s unlimited potential, the benefits and the risks

DeepMind's AlphaFold breakthrough in 2020 accurately predicted 3D structures of proteins to atomic resolution, saving 1,000 million man-years. AI-based tools can now create music, poems, and manuscripts faster and better. AI can help democratise knowledge, but the AI-divide could widen the wealth gap. Governments must act quickly to assess the…

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The Guardian - UK

Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it’s no birdbrain

The advanced large language model’s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technology

Zenger

Elon Musk Launches XAI To Uncover The Universe’s True Nature

Musk's new venture aims to understand the universe with a team of experts from DeepMind, OpenAI, and more.

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk launches AI startup and warns of a ‘Terminator future’

Tesla boss claims ‘pro-humanity’ xAI offers realistic alternative to pausing development of superintelligence

PC Gamer

Elon Musk is starting a new AI company that aims to 'understand reality'

xAI is being led by veterans of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others—and of course, Musk himself.

Fortune

Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn in a massive $1.3 billion funding round

The maker of the Pi chatbot plans one of the world's biggest A.I. supercomputers. Previous investors include Will.i.am.

TechRadar

Google says its secret AI weapon could eventually outsmart ChatGPT

Google's DeepMind lab will equip the AI with reinforcement learning so it can solve tough problems by itself.

Tom’s Hardware

Google’s Next-Gen Gemini AI Expected to Surpass ChatGPT

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, expects their next AI program, Gemini, to surpass ChatGPT as a leading AI.

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