Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts are calling for a pause in the training of powerful AI systems due to the potential risks to society and humanity. The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people, warned of potential risks to society and civilisation by human-competitive AI systems in the form of economic and political disruptions. "AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity," the letter warns. "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable." It called for a six-month halt to the "dangerous race" to develop systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4.

The HBO show is a prequel to Game of Thrones, and that series ended so badly I don't want anything more to do with that fictional world. But maybe A.I. could change my mind? At South by Southwest earlier this month, Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, said, "Imagine if you could ask your A.I. to make a new ending that goes in a different way." Could A.I. be the solution to fixing every novel and script someone has a problem with--customizing revisions to make them shorter or longer, less or more violent, more or less "woke"? Even if A.I. could make changes to movies and books that you personally find dissatisfying, part of those works' value lies in the shared conversations they inspire--conversations that require opinions about common, historically situated texts.

Drone video captured 33 swimmers harassing a pod of dolphins just off Hawaii's Big Island on Sunday morning, authorities said. Federal authorities are investigating after they say a large group of swimmers was caught harassing a pod of dolphins just off Hawaii's Big Island on Sunday morning. The state's Department of Land and Natural Resources said that the 33 swimmers were spotted "actively pursuing" the dolphin pod in Hōnaunau Bay during a routine patrol in the South Kona District. Aerial drone footage shows the spinner dolphins swimming away as the snorkelers follow. The swimmers appeared "to be aggressively pursuing, corralling, and harassing the pod," the agency said in a statement. Officers contacted the group while they were still in the water and alerted them to the violation.

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in training systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched model GPT-4, they said in an open letter, citing potential risks to society and humanity. The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people including Musk, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind, as well as AI heavyweights Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, called for a pause on advanced AI development until shared safety protocols for such designs were developed, implemented and audited by independent experts. "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable," the letter said. The letter also detailed potential risks to society and civilization by human-competitive AI systems in the form of economic and political disruptions, and called on developers to work with policymakers on governance and regulatory authorities. The letter comes as EU police force Europol on Monday joined a chorus of ethical and legal concerns over advanced AI like ChatGPT, warning about the potential misuse of the system in phishing attempts, disinformation and cybercrime.

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) has the ability to transform our lives on a personal level and in a business capacity. From personalised Netflix recommendations to predictive analytics, AI is becoming more prevalent in all aspects of our daily lives. The recent phenomenon of the online AI platform known as ChatGPT has sparked much conversation and debate about the use of AI and how far reaching it can be. AI can greatly benefit businesses if they implement the right technology. AI tools such as natural language processing, sales forecasting and chatbots can lead to increased efficiency, a reduction in overheads and in turn can contribute to overall profitability.

Artists outraged by artificial intelligence that copies in seconds the styles they have sacrificed years to develop are waging battle online and in court. Fury erupted in the art community last year with the release of generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs that can convincingly carry out commands such as drawing a dog like cartoonist Sarah Andersen would, or a nymph the way illustrator Karla Ortiz might do. Such style-swiping AI works are cranked out without the original artist's consent, credit or compensation--the three C's at the heart of a fight to change all that. In January, artists including Andersen and Ortiz filed a class-action lawsuit against DreamUp, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, three image-generating AI models programmed with art found online. Andersen told AFP she felt "violated" when first she saw an AI drawing that copied the style of her "Fangs" comic book work.

The U.K. government on Wednesday published recommendations for the artificial intelligence industry, outlining an all-encompassing approach for regulating the technology at a time when it has reached frenzied levels of hype. In the white paper, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) outlined five principles it wanted companies to follow. They are: safety, security and robustness; transparency and explainability; fairness; accountability and governance; and contestability and redress. Rather than establishing new regulations, the government is calling on regulators to apply existing regulations and inform companies about their obligations under the white paper. It has tasked the Health and Safety Executive, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Competition and Markets Authority with coming up with "tailored, context-specific approaches that suit the way AI is actually being used in their sectors."

LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Britain plans to split responsibility for governing artificial intelligence (AI) between its regulators for human rights, health and safety, and competition, rather than creating a new body dedicated to the technology. AI, which is rapidly evolving with advances such as the ChatGPT app, could improve productivity and help unlock growth, but there are concerns about the risks it could pose to people's privacy, human rights or safety, the government said. It said it wanted to avoid heavy handed legislation that could stifle innovation and would instead take an adaptable approach to regulation based on broad principles such as safety, transparency, fairness and accountability. The European Union is tackling the issue head on by attempting to devise landmark AI laws and create a new AI office. The speed at which the technology is advancing, however, is complicating its efforts, sources have said.

Instead of giving responsibility for AI governance to a new single regulator, the government wants existing regulators - such as the Health and Safety Executive, Equality and Human Rights Commission and Competition and Markets Authority - to come up with their own approaches that suit the way AI is actually being used in their sectors.

Fairlearn is an open source project to help practitioners assess and improve fairness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The associated Python library, also named fairlearn, supports evaluation of a model's output across affected populations and includes several algorithms for mitigating fairness issues. Grounded in the understanding that fairness is a sociotechnical challenge, the project integrates learning resources that aid practitioners in considering a system's broader societal context.