AI & Society

Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...

More expensive models, superhuman performance, growing impacts on society — an extensive report takes stock of developments in machine learning over the past year. 

Apple is thinking small — very small — with a new family of open large language models.

How well do large language models respond to professional-level queries in various industry domains? A new company aims to find out.

A new breed of audio generator produces synthetic performances of songs in a variety of popular styles.

OpenAI has been moderating its GPT Store with a very light touch. In a survey of the GPT Store’s offerings, TechCrunch found numerous examples of custom ChatGPT instances that appear to violate the store’s own policies.

Language models can generate code that erroneously points to software packages, creating vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.

Google is empowering developers to build autonomous agents using little or no custom code.

Generative AI is being used mostly to generate ideas. The tech consultancy Filtered studied the most common uses for generative AI. While most gen AI users produced text, the study surprisingly found that users were slightly more likely to generate videos than images.

The CEO of Stability AI resigned as the company faces an increasingly competitive market.

New coding tools act like agents to automate software programming tasks. 

Scientists pledged to control their use of AI to produce potentially hazardous biological materials.

Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.

The United States military is using computer vision to target enemy positions in the Red Sea and elsewhere.

AI agents are typically designed to operate a particular software environment. Recent work enabled a single agent to take actions in a variety of three-dimensional virtual worlds.