Donald Trump’s White House Accord on Super Intelligence looks set to join a long line of ineffectual calls for self-regulation from the tech industry.
- Professorial Fellow (Artificial Intelligence), Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
Just because you can deal with your inbox more quickly doesn’t mean you’ll spend your afternoon on the beach.
How can the science community minimise the risks but maximise the benefits of AI?
2025 may be the year of AI agents that can carry out tasks on our behalf – but the technology has a couple of big hurdles to get past before it will really be useful.
If you drop advanced AI into a dumb organisation, it won’t make it smart. It will just help the organisation do dumb stuff more efficiently (in other words, quicker).
Dubbed the ‘godfather of AI’, Hinton’s early work helped pioneer many of the methods underlying the AI systems we see today.
In a series of experiments, Australian researchers showed how machines can find vulnerabilities in human decision-making and exploit them to influence our behaviour.
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