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On March 11, The Atlantic Monthly reported that the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has entered a new phase in its efforts to downsize and reorganize the U.S. civil service. The idea is simple: use generative artificial intelligence to automate work previously done by people. The U.S. government is testing a new chatbot with 1,500 federal employees at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and could release it to the entire agency as early as this Friday, meaning that more than 10,000 workers responsible for more than $100 billion in contracts and services could use it. ...

Feb. 11 - According to a Feb. 7 report in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. tech industry's unemployment rate climbed to 5.7% in January from 3.9% in December, considerably higher than last month's overall unemployment rate of 4%, showing that the popularity of automation and AI is having an increasingly negative impact on the tech industry's labor market. According to a report released by consulting firm Janco Associates, based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of unemployed people in the tech sector increased in January from 98,000 last December to 15...

February 5, 2012 - A new bill (SB 243) has been introduced in California that would require artificial intelligence (AI) companies to regularly remind children that chatbots are AI and not human. The bill, introduced by California State Senator Steve Padilla, aims to protect children from the "addictive, isolating, and influential" aspects of AI. 1AI notes that in addition to restricting companies' use of "addictive modes of interaction," the bill would require AI companies to submit an annual report to the state Department of Health Care Services detailing the platform's detection of child...

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may not be able to maintain its lead over China in the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI), according to Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet, Google's parent company. Porat pointed out in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that although the United States is temporarily ahead in the field of AI models and chips, China has been equal to it in the popularization and application of basic capabilities, and may even be slightly better. Porat said: "The U.S. may be more than a year ahead in AI models, and the West is in the core...

The Arizona Charter School Commission has approved a new online school, Unbound Academy, but this one has a unique feature: the academic program is fully taught by AI, TechCrunch reported on 20 December. Image Credits:Malte Mueller / Getty Images Note: In the US, charter schools typically have more autonomy than traditional public schools, especially when it comes to curriculum design and teaching methods. Unbound Academ...

Dec. 20, 2011 - Large language models (LLMs), represented by ChatGPT and others, have become increasingly adept at processing and generating human language over the past few years, but the extent to which these models mimic the neural processes of the human brain that support language processing remains to be further elucidated. As reported by Tech Xplore 18, a team of researchers from Columbia University and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research recently conducted a study that explored the similarities between LLMs and neural responses in the brain. The study showed that as LLM technology advances, these models not only perform...

In the winter of 2025 the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will offer a comparative literature class with textbooks, assignments, and teaching assistant materials generated by artificial intelligence. According to 1AI, the course is an introduction to medieval to 17th-century literature, and its materials are generated by Kudu's AI platform, which was founded by UCLA Physics and Astronomy Professor Alexander Kusenko. It will reportedly be the first course in UCLA's School of Humanities to use...

Meta became the latest tech giant to focus on nuclear energy when it announced on Tuesday local time that it is seeking nuclear energy developers to submit proposals to support its artificial intelligence and environmental goals, Reuters reported. More and more tech giants are looking at the potential of atomic energy as demand for electricity is expected to surge. Meta has said it plans to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity in the U.S. starting in the early 2030s. By comparison, standard U.S. nuclear power plants have a capacity of about 1 GW. In a statement, the company said, "We believe that nuclear energy will play an important role in achieving a cleaner, more reliable to...

The Decoder reports today that a federal court has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts student who was punished by his school for failing to explain the use of AI technology in an assignment. The case could provide important legal guidance for how schools manage AI use. According to court records, a student at Hingham High School used Grammarly's AI capabilities to complete portions of a history assignment without explanation. The school detected the violation through the Turnitin software, and problems with the assignment itself were revealed:...

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) startup OpenAI recently called on the U.S. and its allies to work together to establish a "North American Artificial Intelligence Consortium" to support the infrastructure needed to develop AI systems to counter competition from China. OpenAI said Wednesday that the U.S. and its neighboring countries could form a "North American AI Alliance" to streamline access to talent, financing, and supply chain resources in order to promote the development of AI technology. The company noted that the model is expected to expand into a global network covering more U.S. allies and partners in the future, including Middle Eastern countries...

According to a Bloomberg 9 report, U.S. companies are investing heavily in data centers in an effort to get a head start in the AI space. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data, construction spending on private data centers in the U.S. has skyrocketed to nearly $30 billion a year (currently about Rs. 215.332 billion), more than double what it will be by the end of 2022, when OpenAI launches ChatGPT. Today, U.S. companies are spending more of their construction budgets on data centers than in categories that still accounted for much of last year's capital, such as hotels, retail and leisure facilities. Bloomberg cites money management...

November 2 news, according to foreign media forbes report, late last month, the Biden administration's first national security memorandum on artificial intelligence revealed some important content: the government acquiesced in the development of artificial intelligence is not only vital to U.S. national security, but also is unstoppable. Rather than calling for a "pause" or slowdown in AI development, the memo focuses on how to support and protect U.S. AI infrastructure. Perhaps most telling is the memo's reference to meeting AI's enormous energy needs. Advanced AI models require huge amounts of computing power, which translates into huge amounts of...

Megan Garcia, the mother of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide in the United States, has filed a lawsuit against chatbot platform Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google. The allegations include wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic around the world in recent years, especially since OpenAI launched ChatGPT. And the U.S. defense and security establishment has moved quickly to start investing in AI projects on a large scale. Image source note:Image generated by AI, image licensed to service provider Midjourney According to an analysis by Fortune, the Department of Defense (DoD) has signed about $670 million in contracts over the past two years involving nearly 323 companies focused on a wide range of AI-related projects. That number is up from 2021 and 2022...

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies continue to dominate the startup investment market in 2024. Despite some voices in the market suggesting that enthusiasm for AI is starting to wane, data shows that investors remain confident in the space. In the third quarter of this year, AI companies raised a total of 18.9 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 28% of all venture capital investment. among them, OpenAI even completed a round of financing as high as 6.6 billion U.S. dollars on October 2, becoming the largest single-round financing case in history. The following is the foreign technology media Techcrunch collated 2024 so far fundraising...

U.S. defense contractor Anduril Industries recently announced the launch of two new autonomous vehicles, the Bolt and Bolt-M, which feature advanced artificial intelligence technology and are touted to be easy to operate and extremely precise, aiming to change the way traditional drones are used. The Bolt is a reconnaissance drone with a maximum flight range of more than 20 kilometers, an endurance of more than 45 minutes, and weighs about 5.4 kilograms, which Anduril says is not only suitable for reconnaissance, but can also play an important role in search and rescue missions. It is designed...

September 30, 2011 - Media artist Refik Anadol has announced the opening of the world's first Artificial Intelligence Museum of Art in Los Angeles, which will highlight the intersection of "human imagination and the creative potential of machines," according to a report by The Guardian on September 25th. Named "Dataland" and scheduled to open by the end of 2025, the museum, which is adjacent to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad Museum, and the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will create a space for AI art in one of Los Angeles' most prestigious cultural venues. Refik Anadol promises that the museum...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Sept. 25 that it would be taking legal action against companies that falsely advertise AI technology or sell inferior AI technology, and the first five companies to be sued by the FTC include DoNotPay, Ascend Ecom, Ecommerce Empire Builders, Rytr, and FBA Machine. The first five companies to be sued by the FTC include DoNotPay, Ascend Ecom, Ecommerce Empire Builders, Rytr, and FBA Machine. One of them, DoNotPay, offers the services of a robo-attorney, an AI mainstay that was created by Stanford University student Joshua Browder ...

California has approved a landmark AI bill to protect actors' digital likenesses. Assembly Bill 2602, which will take effect on January 1, 2025, was signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. The bill requires studios and other employers to obtain consent authorization before using "digital replicas" of performers, and Newsom also signed AB 1836, which grants similar rights to deceased performers, with studios needing to obtain permission from the estate before using their AI likenesses. ...

Recently, venture capital data service provider IT Juzi released the "2024 China-US Unicorn Company Development Analysis Report". As the two countries with the largest number of unicorn companies in the world, it is more important to compare the differences between Chinese and American unicorns in terms of industry, valuation, city distribution and other dimensions, and analyze their development paths and trajectories. In the report, we can see that the unicorns of China and the United States are far ahead in the world. The report uses a separate chapter to compare the unicorn companies in various industries and tracks in China and the United States in detail. The following is a selection of chapters in the report, mainly showing the unicorns in the artificial intelligence track of China and the United States...

A team of computer science researchers at the University of Idaho, Coeur d'Alene, has successfully demonstrated an autonomous robot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to precisely kill weeds. The three-foot-wide wheeled robot is able to scan, identify and precisely strike weeds as small as half an inch wide, eradicating them with an electric shock. Following the demonstration at the U.S. Forest Service's Coeur d'Alene tree nursery, the team plans to add a rainproof casing to the robot's hardware, improve the electrical components, and increase the AI's accuracy in identifying weeds. Data collection and testing will continue into next year. The robot is in close contact with the U.S.…

Artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to allow the U.S. government to access major new AI models before they are released to help improve their safety. The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding with the US AI Safety Institute, pledging to provide access before and after the models are publicly released, the institute announced Thursday. The U.S. government said the move will help them jointly assess safety risks and mitigate potential issues. The agency said it will work with the U.K. to…

In Florida, a man has been arrested for allegedly creating and distributing child pornography generated using artificial intelligence and is now facing up to 20 obscenity charges. The case has raised widespread concern about the abuse of generative artificial intelligence. According to CBS12 News, the man's name is Phillip Michael McCorkle, who works at a movie theater in Vero Beach, Florida. Last week, law enforcement officers arrested him at the theater, and the TV crew happened to capture this dramatic moment. McCorkle was wearing a uniform...

According to The Guardian, Victor Miller, a mayoral candidate in Cheyenne, Wyoming, plans to use an AI-powered robot to manage local government after taking office. The robot is called Vic (Virtual Integrated Citizen) and is powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT. It claims to be able to process large amounts of data and make fair decisions. Miller is a librarian who has publicly expressed his interest in artificial intelligence and its potential applications in government. As expected, Miller's AI ambitions were met with…