Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak are among the more than 1,100 signatories of an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of advanced A.I. systems. The letter calls on technology companies to cease training A.I. systems that would be more powerful than the latest large language processing system known as the GPT-4. According to Fortune magazine, A.I. power tends to correlate with the model’s size and the number of specialized computer chips needed to train it. Musk has been outspoken in concerns about unrestricted A.I.’s threat to humanity and was was an original cofounder of the OpenAI nonprofit research lab in 2015. He broke with that company in 2018 and has since been critical of the company’s acceptance of billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft. Other signatories to the open letter include Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI, and Connor Leahy, the CEO of Conjecture. Evan Sharp, a … [Read more...] about Elon Musk & Steve Wozniak Sign Open Letter Calling For Moratorium On Some Advanced A.I. Systems
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UK Culture Secretary Lays Out Why The Government Is Regulating The Streamers
In the time it takes you to reach the end of this paragraph, 15 million emails will have been sent. Thirty-thousand tweets will have been published. Three million Facebook updates will have been made. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of blogs, Instagram posts and news articles will have been added to a running total measured in billions. During the biblical flood, the world was supposedly overflowing with water; today we are drowning in gigabytes. Technology has transformed every facet of our life – and there are few places where that is more evident than how we watch and consume TV. Our entertainment landscape is unrecognisable from even a decade ago. Today, figures from the UK media regulator Ofcom showed that young adults spend more time scrolling on TikTok than watching broadcast television. Instead, young people have flocked to streaming services – with deep-pocketed giants like Apple TV +, Netflix , Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video providing an all-you-can-eat television … [Read more...] about UK Culture Secretary Lays Out Why The Government Is Regulating The Streamers