As artificial intelligence is making its way into the workforce and potentially automating jobs, IBM Corp. is already talking about how that will affect the future of its workers as the company plans to pause hiring for back-office jobs that…
AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google
A man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) has quit his job, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field. Geoffrey Hinton, 75, announced his resignation from Google in a statement to the New York…
Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation
The winner of a major photography award has refused his prize after revealing his work was created using AI. German artist Boris Eldagsen’s entry, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, won the creative open category at last week’s Sony World Photography Award.…
Elon Musk among experts urging a halt to AI training
Key figures in artificial intelligence want training of powerful AI systems to be suspended amid fears of a threat to humanity. They have signed an open letter warning of potential risks, and say the race to develop AI systems is…
Open-AI releases GPT-4, an even more advanced AI model than ChatGPT
The startup OpenAI on Tuesday said it is beginning to release a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, setting the stage for human-like technology to proliferate and more competition between its backer Microsoft Corp MSFT.O and Alphabet Inc GOOGL.O…
Google chatbot blunders as AI battle with Microsoft heats up
Google on Wednesday announced a slew of features powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), but a mistake in an ad caused its share price to tank. The search engine giant is rushing into the space after the bot ChatGPT caught the…
Google unveils its ChatGPT rival
Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post that Bard will be…
OpenAI launches tool to catch AI-generated text
It’s AI hunting AI. OpenAI, the startup that created the text generator ChatGPT, launched a tool Tuesday to identify text generated by artificial intelligence. The “AI Text Classifier,” as the company calls it, is a “fine-tuned GPT model that predicts…
Jim Ovia, IT practitioners to headline Zenith Tech Fair
The Second Edition of the Zenith Tech Fair, themed “Future Forward 2.0”, will be held on Tuesday, November 22 and Wednesday, November 23, 2022, at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, from 8.00 a.m. to…
Can sex with a robot be the same? – Peju Akande
So in the past few days, I have been inundated with all kinds of videos on WhatsApp by my contacts, all pointing to one thing, artificial intelligence has taken over our lives; all areas of our lives, including the sex…