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Worried about an AI apocalypse? Some researchers say one of the most extreme versions of that scenario is overblown.The debate has reached a fever pitch in the week since Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher, quit Anthropic and warned that it and his other former employer, OpenAI, were “gambling with our…
A startup that’s trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.Seattle-based Nuance says it wants to build models that can hold face-to-face conversations without the lag and awkwardness of existing chatbots.Fangchang Ma, Nuance’s cofounder and CEO, said that existing voicebots or AI…
Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, has a lot to worry about.The ex-OpenAI researcher has shown that AI’s capabilities are escalating by the month. Now, she fears that the industry doesn’t have the staff in place to keep up with the technology in its next chapter.The…
