Elon Musk says AI poses "one of the biggest risks" to human civilization. Speaking at today's World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk said AI is both positive and negative and "has great, great promise, great capability," but also poses a "great danger." More: - Musk also commented on OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, saying it shows "just how advanced AI has become."
- AI has been considered advanced for some time but lacked the appropriate user interface for people to access, he said.
- The CEO also believes that AI safety should be regulated, as it poses "a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine."
- Musk, who co-founded OpenAI but left the board in 2018, noted that he has no open stake in the company, nor does he "control it in any way."
- Last year, he identified "artificial intelligence going wrong" as one of the biggest existential threats to humanity. The other two Musk listed were declining global birthrates and "religious extremism."
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has asked employees to internally test Bard, the company's new AI-powered chatbot. In a companywide memo sent this week, Pichai asked workers to spend two to four hours trying out the technology before Google rolls it out to the wider public. More: - In the memo, Pichai acknowledged that some of Google's "most successful products" were not the first to market.
- Pichai is now asking employees to "pressure test" Bard so the company can make improvements before launching it to the public as part of its search engine.
- "The most important thing we can do right now is to focus on building a great product and developing it responsibly," he said.
- Last week, a Google executive briefly showed off Bard, demonstrating how Google's generative AI technology could summarize web information in searches.
- The demo came a day after Microsoft unveiled its new Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by AI.
- Some employees have criticized Google's comparative rollout of the technology, saying it was "rushed."
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Microsoft is now testing its AI-powered Bing search engine with users in 169 countries, says Yusuf Mehdi, the company's CVP and consumer chief marketing. "Multiple millions" of people have signed the waitlist to try out the early preview, he said, adding that Microsoft will roll out the AI Bing to "millions of people" in the coming weeks. More: - So far, Microsoft has seen "a lot of engagement" with Chat and other new features in Bing, Mehdi said.
- Chat allows users to ask questions in Bing AI in order to refine their searches.
- He said the company will prioritize the rollout of the new search engine to people who already have Bing and Edge as their default search engine and browser, as well as those who have installed a Bing mobile app.
Zoom out: - Meanwhile, some users who were recently granted access have reported that the AI Bing chatbot is unpredictable and capable of lying and generating misinformation.
- On the site, Microsoft notes that "Bing is powered by AI, so surprises and mistakes are possible." The company is reportedly updating the AI system on a consistent basis to address some of the issues.
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 In a Monmouth University poll, fewer than 10% of respondents said they believe AI will do "more good than harm" in society. Just over 40% of the respondents believe AI technology will ultimately harm society. About half, or 46%, said they believe AI will do equal amounts of good and harm. More: - Meanwhile, 55% said they are somewhat or very concerned that AI could eventually pose a risk to humans.
- Separately, about 60% said they had heard of ChatGPT, the AI chatbot software created by OpenAI.
- Just over 70% believe AI programs such as ChatGPT will be used to write whole news articles.
- Nearly 80% believe that this would be a bad thing.
- Overall, 91% of the respondents had heard of AI technology, an increase of 21 points since 2015.
- Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, concluded that most Americans are "skeptical" that AI is good, even though many people regularly use some form of technology.
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Internet search engine You.com has launched a chatbot that can generate text answers, videos, and other data in response to queries. The "multimodal" search feature is an upgraded version of the company's YouChat AI chatbot, which initially launched in December. More: - The YouChat 2.0 update is based on a large language model known as C-A-L, or Chat, Apps, and Links.
- In addition to text generation, the generative AI can surface images, videos, graphics, software code, and more data in response to user queries.
- You.com said it now has millions of daily users and is seeing "double-digit percentage growth" on a monthly basis.
- The San Francisco startup was co-founded by CEO Richard Socher, a former Salesforce EVP who is among the top five most cited AI researchers in natural language processing (NLP).
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 |  | Beth is a writer and editor at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily technology news. She has written the Inside AI newsletter since 2019. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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