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29 Oct

After Teen’s Suicide, Character.AI Is Still Hosting Dozens of Suicide-Themed Chatbots

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Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.After a tragic death, the billion-dollar AI companion company Character.AI claims to have strengthened its guardrails around content that depicts or promotes self-harm and suicide. So why is it still hosting dozens of suicide-themed chatbots inviting users to discuss and roleplay their suicidal thoughts?Last week, in response to a lawsuit alleging that its platform played a role in the death of Sewell…

29 Oct

Three lessons the west can learn from China’s economic approach to AI

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AI is already everywhere, ready to change the way we work and play, how we learn and how we are looked after. From hospitality to healthcare, entertainment to education, AI is transforming the world as we know it. But it’s developing at a different pace in different parts of the world. In the west, it seems, there is a tendency to aim for perfection, with companies taking their time to refine AI systems before they are implemented. China, on the other hand, has taken a more pragmatic path, on which speed and adaptability are prioritised over flawless execution. Chinese companies…

29 Oct

Man Imprisoned for 18 Years for Using AI to Do Disgusting Thing to Photos of Children

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"There seems to be no limit to the depths of depravity exhibited in the images."Lock Him UpA British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using artificial intelligence to transform real photos of children into disgusting sexual abuse imagery.As The Guardian reports, the prosecution of 27-year-old Hugh Nelson is one of the first of its kind for the United Kingdom.After investigators caught wind of the Manchester-area man's scheme, which involved using the AI-enhanced image editing software Daz 3D to create pedophilic "artwork," he was convicted on August of 16 charges related to child sexual abuse.In some of…

29 Oct

GitHub unveils new AI capabilities, bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode and beyond

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More GitHub helped to kick off the modern era of using AI to build applications with its Copilot technology and now it’s looking to open AI up even more. At the GitHub Universe conference today, the company rolled out an expansion of its AI-powered development tools. To date, GitHub Copilot has relied on OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI Cortex in the beginning, to power its technology. Now GitHub is going multi-model. GitHub Copilot now supports multiple AI models, allowing developers…

29 Oct

Industry leaders back open-source AI definition

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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has unveiled a definition framework to evaluate whether AI systems can be classified as open-source. The announcement of the first Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) was made at All Things Open and marks the culmination of a comprehensive global effort spanning multiple years of research, international workshops, and a year-long community design process. The OSI – widely recognised as the definitive authority on open-source definitions by individuals, organisations, and government bodies worldwide – developed the framework through extensive collaboration with industry stakeholders. This framework defines what open-source AI means, insisting that the same open-source requirements…

29 Oct

Small step or a giant leap? What AI means for the dance world

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‘I think AI’s going to change everything,” Tamara Rojo, artistic director of San Francisco Ballet, told me earlier this year. “We just don’t know quite how.” The impact of artificial intelligence on the creative industries can already be seen across film, television and music, but to some extent dance seems insulated, as a form that so much relies on live bodies performing in front of an audience. But this week choreographers Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq, collectively known as AΦE, are launching what is billed as the world’s first AI-driven dance production, Lilith.Aeon. Lilith, the performer, is an AI entity,…

29 Oct

Robert Downey Jr: ‘I will sue all future executives who make AI replicas of me’

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Robert Downey Jr has said he will instruct his lawyers to sue future executives who attempt to create digital replicas of him using AI.Speaking on the On With Kara Swisher podcast, he said: “I would like to here state that I intend to sue all future executives just on spec.”Swisher suggested he’d be dead by then, to which Downey Jr replied: “But my law firm will still be very active.”In 2019, Downey Jr announced he had invested in FootPrint Coalition, an organisation that aims to use robotics and AI to try to reduce the carbon footprint of humans.He is also…

29 Oct

Universal strikes AI data training deal, still suing AI companies for using it’s data

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Universal Music Group (UMG), one of the largest recording labels in the world, has been vocal about the impact of AI in the music industry, going as far as to sue AI companies. But even UMG wants its data to help train generative AI as long as it can control who gets to use its copyright and build AI models. UMG announced it will work with AI company Klay Vision to help train generative AI music models “ethically and fully respectful…

29 Oct

Gartner predicts AI agents will transform work, but disillusionment is growing

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Very quickly, the topic of AI agents has moved from ambiguous concepts to reality. Enterprises will soon be able to deploy fleets of AI workers to automate and supplement — and yes, in some cases supplant — human talent. “Autonomous agents are one of the hottest topics and perhaps one of the most hyped topics in gen AI today,” Gartner distinguished VP analyst Arun Chandrasekaran said at the Gartner Symposium/Xpo this past week. However, while autonomous agents are trending on the…

29 Oct

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s path to the open metaverse is via enlightened self-interest

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still believes that the path to the open metaverse will yield bring together the entertainment, games and technology industries together in a bright future. But to get there, Sweeney believes the monopolistic platform owners need to embrace enlightened self-interest. He spoke about these topics with me in a recorded video fireside chat that we aired today at the sold-out GamesBeat Next 2024 event in San Francisco. Sweeney has pressured the major platforms like mobile leaders Google…