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New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO […]
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a subscriber, you can get on board here.) We're back after a two-week hiatus, during most of which I was gallivanting in the Netherlands for a family wedding, and a trip […]
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I highly recommend watching (or rewatching) the 2014 movie Transcendence. The film beautifully captures the terrifying nature of the "technological singularity" where an Al undergoes exponential, recursive self-improvement, eventually taking over global networks and stripping away human agency until a total global blackout is the only way to stop it. For years, people brushed this off alongside The Terminator as pure Hollywood sci-fi. But look at where we are right now. Just this month, Anthropic-one of the world's leading Al labs-issued a massive warning calling for a globally coordinated, verifiable pause on advanced Al development. Their core fear? Exactly what happens in those movies: recursive self-improvement. They believe we are fast approaching the threshold where an Al can design and build its own successor, meaning humans could completely lose control of the technology. When the people actually building these models are telling us to hit the brakes because society can't keep up, it feels like we're blindly sprinting into a dystopia. What's your take on this? Are we staring down a real-life Skynet situation, or is this just big tech labs using fear-mongering to push for heavy regulations and lock out their competition? submitted by /u/photography_rambog [link] [留言]
"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."
If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed […]
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.
The UK's communications regulator has reminded social media platforms they have a duty to minimize hateful content, not encourage it.
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Sony is starting to spread its PS Plus Game Catalog updates throughout the month.