Tag: Artificial Intelligence

• Friday, June 9th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

  Biden, Sunak sign “Atlantic Declaration” to address new technologies

  

  US President Joseph Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Thursday renewed the economic alliance between the two countries by adapting it to the current world's transformations such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the climate crisis by signing the so-called Atlantic Declaration. Both leaders met at the White House to also discuss the war in Ukraine and the global economy.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  IMF fears labor market shock due to AI

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath Tuesday called for global rules to avoid the high social costs of massive job losses from the use of artificial intelligence, it was reported. “When it comes to AI, we need more than new rules,” she stressed.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Bill to regulate AI submitted at Brazil's Senate

  

  Brazilian Senate Speaker Rodrigo Pacheco Thursday submitted a bill to regulate the use of artificial intelligence based on the recommendations from a committee of jurists who studied the issue during 70 public hearings to detect the economic, social, and security impacts that the new development may have, especially in the labor market.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 14:09 UTC

  Pause AI development: Open letter from world's tech leaders urges labs to stop

  

  Elon Musk and many other experts around the world have recently signed a petition requesting a six-month pause on research into artificial intelligence (AI) that is more powerful than ChatGPT 4, the OpenAI model that was launched this month.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 15:58 UTC

  A news site set AI to write text and had to cancel the whole thing: it turns out bad

  

  The U.S. technology website CNET has stopped publishing articles written by Artificial Intelligence (AI), at least for the time being, as reported by The Verge.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazil launches network on Artificial Intelligence applied to the auto industry and agribusiness sectors

  

  The Brazilian government has announced the launch of a national innovation network focused on artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of increasing the production capacity and competitiveness of local companies.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Google’s advisory council on AI only lasted a fortnight

  

  An independent group set up to oversee Google's artificial intelligence efforts has been shut down less than a fortnight after it was launched. The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) was due to look at the ethics around AI, machine learning and facial recognition. One member resigned and there were calls for another to be removed.

• Tuesday, February 19th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  IBM to launch research center on Artificial Intelligence in Sao Paulo

  

  IBM is set to launch a research center in the Brazilian city of São Paulo focused on development of solutions around artificial intelligence. The AI center will be the first Latin American institution of IBM's AI Horizons Network. It will be jointly run by the company and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to pursue “a disruptive research program”, with the potential to “promote paradigm shifts in AI.”