After the explosion of interest in text- and image-generators, using AI to generate videos is considered the next frontier and start-ups and Big Tech companies alike are investing in the space. Video tools from OpenAI and Google aren't publicly available yet, so start-ups like Pika are moving fast to expand before the bigger companies put out their own commercial and consumer-focused tools. But creating a video with AI is much more technically difficult than making a still image, and requires a huge amount of computer processing power, making it an expensive and slow process.

While you might expect AI to be the epitome of cold, logical reasoning, researchers now suggest that they might be even more illogical than humans. Researchers from University College London put seven of the top AIs through a series of classic tests designed to test human reasoning. Even the best-performing AIs were found to be irrational and prone to simple mistakes, with most models getting the answer wrong more than half the time. However, the researchers also found that these models weren't irrational in same way as a human while some even refused to answer logic questions on'ethical grounds'. Olivia Macmillan-Scott, a PhD student at UCL and lead author on the paper, says: 'Based on the results of our study and other research on Large Language Models, it's safe to say that these models do not'think' like humans yet.'

A group of current and former employees from leading AI companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic have signed an open letter asking for greater transparency and protection from retaliation for those who speak out about the potential concerns of AI. "So long as there is no effective government oversight of these corporations, current and former employees are among the few people who can hold them accountable to the public," the letter, which was published on Tuesday, says. "Yet broad confidentiality agreements block us from voicing our concerns, except to the very companies that may be failing to address these issues." The letter comes just a couple of weeks after a Vox investigation revealed OpenAI had attempted to muzzle recently departing employees by forcing them to chose between signing an aggressive non-disparagement agreement, or risk losing their vested equity in the company. After the report, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the provision "genuinely embarrassing" and claims it has been removed from recent exit documentation, though it's unclear if it remains in force for some employees. The 13 signatories include former OpenAI employees Jacob Hinton, William Saunders and Daniel Kokotajlo.

A group of current and former employees at leading AI companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind published a letter on Tuesday warning against the dangers of advanced AI as they allege companies are prioritizing financial gains while avoiding oversight. Thirteen employees, eleven of which are current or former employees of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, signed the letter entitled: "A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence." The two other signatories are current and former employees of Google DeepMind. The coalition cautions that AI systems are powerful enough to pose serious harms without proper regulation. "These risks range from the further entrenchment of existing inequalities, to manipulation and misinformation, to the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction," the letter says.

A group of current and former employees at prominent artificial intelligence companies issued an open letter on Tuesday that warned of a lack of safety oversight within the industry and called for increased protections for whistleblowers. The letter, which calls for a "right to warn about artificial intelligence", is one of the most public statements about the dangers of AI from employees within what is generally a secretive industry. Eleven current and former OpenAI workers signed the letter, along with two current or former Google DeepMind employees – one of whom previously worked at Anthropic. "AI companies possess substantial non-public information about the capabilities and limitations of their systems, the adequacy of their protective measures, and the risk levels of different kinds of harm," the letter states. "However, they currently have only weak obligations to share some of this information with governments, and none with civil society. We do not think they can all be relied upon to share it voluntarily."

A group of current and former OpenAI employees have issued a public letter warning that the company and its rivals are building artificial intelligence with undue risk, without sufficient oversight, and while muzzling employees who might witness irresponsible activities. "These risks range from the further entrenchment of existing inequalities, to manipulation and misinformation, to the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction," reads the letter published at righttowarn.ai. "So long as there is no effective government oversight of these corporations, current and former employees are among the few people who can hold them accountable." The letter calls for not just OpenAI but all AI companies to commit to not punishing employees who speak out about their activities. It also calls for companies to establish "verifiable" ways for workers to provide anonymous feedback on their activities.

Since summer 2023, you can prevent the crawlers from the AI company Open AI from reading your website and making it part of the artificial intelligence ChatGPT, which can be found at https://chat.openai.com Advantages of the crawler ban: With protection from AI crawlers, the text and images on your website will no longer be used to train the ChatGPT artificial intelligence in future. However, your content will not be subsequently removed from ChatGPT's knowledge base. And the AI crawlers of other providers will not adhere to the ban for the time being. Open AI has so far been the first and only company to commit to complying with the crawler ban.

The letter called for AI companies to commit to four principles to allow for greater transparency and whistleblower protections. Those principles include a commitment to not enter into or enforce agreements that prohibit criticism of risks; a call to establish an anonymous process for current and former employees to raise concerns; supporting a culture of criticism; and a promise to not retaliate against current and former employees who share confidential information to raise alarms "after other processes have failed."

As the ChatGPT outage continues, it seems frustrated users are making their way to alternative platforms. Little-known chatbot site Kognitium claims to be experiencing'high traffic' due to the outage, which has affected ChatGPT since around 8am BST. Kognitium, owned by a California company of the same name, hasn't disclosed exact traffic numbers, but tells users'you may not need to use ChatGPT anymore'. In an X post, Kognitium said: 'We are working hard to keep things running smoothly. 'We apologize if the performance has been less than ideal.

Generative AI tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot are rapidly evolving, fueling concerns that the technology could open the door to multiple privacy and security issues, particularly in the workplace. In May, privacy campaigners dubbed Microsoft's new Recall tool a potential "privacy nightmare" due to its ability to take screenshots of your laptop every few seconds. The feature has caught the attention of UK regulator the Information Commissioner's Office, which is asking Microsoft to reveal more about the safety of the product launching soon in its Copilot PCs. Concerns are also mounting over OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has demonstrated screenshotting abilities in its soon-to-launch macOS app that privacy experts say could result in the capture of sensitive data. The US House of Representatives has banned the use of Microsoft's Copilot among staff members after it was deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to "the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services." Meanwhile, market analyst Gartner has cautioned that "using Copilot for Microsoft 365 exposes the risks of sensitive data and content exposure internally and externally."