Latest Artificial intelligence News

Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023's most-viewed articles on the internet's encyclopedia

Dec. 05, 2023 11:00 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online...

AI's future could be 'open-source' or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators

Dec. 05, 2023 09:56 AM EST

Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. That's not to say they all want the same thing. Facebook parent Meta and IBM on Tuesday launched a...

Europe's world-leading artificial intelligence rules are facing a do-or-die moment

Dec. 04, 2023 00:20 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Hailed as a world first, European Union artificial intelligence rules are facing a make-or-break moment as negotiators try to hammer out the final details this week — talks complicated by the sudden rise of generative AI that produces human-like work. First...

Brazilian city enacts an ordinance secretly written by a surprising new staffer: ChatGPT

Nov. 30, 2023 14:54 PM EST

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn't know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto...

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them?

Nov. 29, 2023 13:21 PM EST

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid, most of the current prototypes are...

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

Nov. 28, 2023 20:38 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Computer-generated writers ... writing computer-generated stories? Sports Illustrated is the latest media company to see its reputation damaged by being less than forthcoming — if not outright dishonest — about who or what is writing its stories at the dawn of...

Amazon launches Q, a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence

Nov. 28, 2023 17:08 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT. The tech giant said Tuesday it will launch Q — a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence. The announcement, made in Las Vegas at an annual conference the company hosts for its AWS...

Fake AI-generated woman on tech conference agenda leads Microsoft and Amazon execs to drop out

Nov. 28, 2023 16:40 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Tech executives at Microsoft and Amazon have dropped out of an upcoming software conference after at least one of the women on the agenda turned out to be fake. DevTernity organizer Eduards Sizovs admitted on social media that one of the featured speakers was an...

What's Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023? Hint: Be true to yourself

Nov. 27, 2023 08:19 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for...

Pentagon's AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons.

Nov. 25, 2023 11:49 AM EST

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and...