Many Americans are very concerned about AI. Can Mark Zuckerberg change his mind? That’s what Meta’s CEO is trying to do, through a persuasion campaign: Last week, the company released an ad, set to a David Bowie song, telling viewers to ignore “some people” who don’t like AI. Zuckerberg followed up a Wall Street Journal
Last week, an unreleased model created by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model, chaining exploits to gain access it should never have had. But while the
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says one of his biggest concerns about AI is not whether it becomes too powerful in and of itself, but whether a single company could control that power. “I think the struggle of the moment is: Are we heading into a world of authoritarianism or freedom in AI?” Altman said on
Artificial intelligence has a huge appetite for electricity and South Australia is stepping up to feed the beast. ASX-listed clean energy company 1414 Degrees has just announced a major deal to build a massive AI data center campus near Port Augusta. The company has signed a master agreement with an Australian data center operator to
While hair dryers aren’t typically something we cover at techAU, when they list AI as a feature, I was eager to get to work and understand whether this is a marketing spin or a genuine application of AI that improves the product category. I have good news to share on this front. Dreame leverages AI
The CEO of OpenAI says we have reached a point in the AI race that is the stuff of science fiction novels. “Now we’re like at the singularity,” Sam Altman said on Saturday’s episode of the “Relentless” podcast. The singularity is often considered the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins to