Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety MLCommons has made benchmarks for AI performance—now it’s time to measure safety
One of the management guru Peter Drucker’s most over-quoted turns of phrase is “what gets measured gets improved.” But it’s over-quoted for a reason: It’s true. Nowhere is it truer than in technology over the past 50 years. Moore’s law—which predicts that…
Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually — but lowers it collectively
A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: It appeared to help less naturally creative people write more original short stories — but dampened the creativity of the group as a…
AI Coding Is Going From Copilot to Autopilot But so far Devin AI and others still really need humans
A new breed of AI-powered coding tools have emerged—and they’re claiming to be more autonomous versions of earlier assistants like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Tabnine. One such new entrant, Devin AI, has been dubbed an “AI software engineer” by its maker, applied AI lab Cognition. According…
What Can AI Researchers Learn From Alien Hunters? The SETI Institute’s approach has lessons for research on artificial general intelligence
The emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—systems that can perform any task a human can—could be the most important event in human history, one that radically affects all aspects of our collective lives. Yet AGI, which could emerge soon, remains an…
AI and Big Data
In general terms, AI refers to computational tools that are able to substitute for human intelligence in the performance of certain tasks. This technology is currently advancing at a breakneck pace, much like the exponential growth experienced by database technology…