Emmet Ryan
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Humans must always be responsible for AI (opens the original)
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Sam Altman, the chief executive and co-founder of OpenAI, is a lot of things but he broached new territory last week by presenting himself as akin to Basil Fawlty. Readers of a certain age may be horrified to learn that Gourmet Night, the episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil Fawlty gives his car a good thrashing, first aired more than 50 years ago in 1975. In the famous scene, Fawltyâs car breaks down and he starts warning it to start working as intended. Eventually, he grabs a tree branch to
Will AI kill us all? (opens the original)
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âStay calm and enjoy basketball.â It was an unusually reassuring message from the PA at Berlinâs Uber Arena on Thursday. It turned out that September 10th is Germanyâs Bundesweiter Warntag, the annual check-up on the national emergency alert system. It operates on a unique system to reach anyone in Germany directly on compatible smartphones and set off an alarm irrespective of phone settings so long as the device is turned on. There are also simultaneous warnings across radio and TV broa
Make no mistake, US settlement is a win for Meta (opens the original)
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The Juncker curse, named for former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, has a simple but downbeat premise. Juncker is attributed with saying, with regards to reform of any kind, âWe all know what to do, but we donât know how to get re-elected once we have done it.â That is the bind that governments across the EU, including Ireland, find themselves in when it comes to putting manners on tech giants. Last week it looked like the US had stolen a march on the EU with the settlem
Will the world trust Zuckerberg on personalised AI? (opens the original)
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Electric Dreams, a film screened in 1984, was one of the quirkier efforts of that era to examine the fears of over-relying on technology. The techno love story involves a regular home computer, named Edgar, developing extraordinary powers that enable it to control household appliances, aid Miles (the protagonist) with his work and provide advice on his love life. Edgar, of course, goes rogue and begins to interfere in the life of Miles to the point where it becomes far more of a hindrance than a
AI apes fiction as OpenAI and Anthropic models go rogue (opens the original)
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When we talk about the lack of originality with generative artificial intelligence (AI), it is generally in relation to it creating outputs based on the existing work of actual humans. It doesnât usually refer to the way in which things go wrong. From 2011 to 2016, CBS had a show called Person of Interest focused around a superpowered AI called the Machine. It was a big show, the leads Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson are easy to recognise and it was watched by millions worldwide across five s
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