Look out Ivy League, Elon Musk is coming for you.
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of several other companies (including, um, X), has plans to launch a new university in Austin, Texas.
As the Texas Tribune reported, tax filings for The Foundation, one of the charities owned by the world’s richest man, show plans to use a $100 million gift from Musk to fund the school. Initial plans call for a primary and secondary school, which will focus on a science, technolo
Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents, a survey from the Pew Research Center found.
But the data also found that roughly one in six teens describe their use of two platforms—YouTube and TikTok—as “almost constant.”
Seventy-one percent of teens said they visit YouTube at least daily; 16% described their usage as “almost constant”
Pope Francis on Thursday called for an international treaty to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically, arguing that the risks of technology lacking human values of compassion, mercy, morality, and forgiveness are too great.
Francis added his voice to increasing calls for binding, global regulation of AI in his annual message for the World Day of Peace, which the Catholic Church celebrates each Jan. 1. The Vatican released the text of the message on Thursday.
In the year since ChatGPT was released to the public, researchers and experts have warned that the ease with which content can be created using generative AI tools could poison the well, creating a vicious circle where those tools produce content that is then used to train other AI models.
That so-called “model collapse”—which would hollow out any “knowledge” accrued by the chatbots—appears to have come true.
Last week, X user Jax
With only a few weeks to go in 2023, job losses from layoffs continue to mount, meaning the year is going to go out how it began. According to layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, 1,157 tech companies have now laid off 257,778 workers over the course of the year. As for December, the most prominent companies that have laid off employees include:
Etsy
Etsy is the most recent tech company to announce layoffs. On December 13, CEO Josh Silverman informed employees that the com
M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me.
With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films, and books that will become public domain as the year turns to 2024.
In a moment many close observers thought might never come, at least one version of the quintessential piece of intellectual property and perhaps the most iconic character in American pop culture will be free from Disn
Over the past few weeks, the OpenAI saga has played out in ways all too familiar to women in AI and tech. Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI and rapid return based on a tsunami of public Silicon Valley power broker support, reinforced his white male god-like status without questioning exactly what lay behind the ousting and what future guardrails for safety might be necessary.
The reconstituted OpenAI board doubled down on the concept that “only white men get AI,”
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Super Investor Vinod Khosla on our AI future
Veteran venture capitalist Vinod Khosla dropped some pearls of wisdom on an adoring crowd during a brief interview onstage at Fortune’s AI conference in do
If you’re not conducting business experiments with generative AI right now, you’re probably at least thinking about it. Some businesses are exploring hundreds of use cases—and even identifying 5 or 10 that have outsize impacts on the business can be enough to drive real revenue growth, reduce costs, or both.
Those kinds of results make it easy to see why there’s so much hype around generative AI. While it’s important to have guidelines in place to
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