Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a smiling robot.” Half way through the journey On Wednesday, two German researchers, Sophie Jentzsch and Kristian Kersting, released… Read More »Researchers discover that ChatGPT repeats as many as 25 jokes over and over
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Last month, hundreds of well-known people in the artificial intelligence world signed an open letter warning that AI could one day destroy humanity. “Reducing the… Read More »How can AI destroy humanity?
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