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An agenda to maximise AI’s advantages and minimise harms, by David Patterson

This was the topic of a spirited dialog I had in February 2024 with Andy Konwinski, a former scholar of mine and the co-founder of two AI-related startups, Databricks and Perplexity. Andy shared his disbelief {that a} buddy’s son had dropped out of his computer-science programme. This vibrant scholar believed AI would quickly make programmers …

‘Excellent’ AI girlfriend might worsen loneliness: Ex Google CEO says it’ll ‘takes over the best way you’re pondering’

As Synthetic Expertise (AI) will get extra superior by the day, a lot in order that single people begin forming a bond with it, Eric Schmidt, the previous CEO of Google, has raised considerations. Referring to AI because the “good” girlfriend or boyfriend, Schmidt warned that younger people forming emotional attachments to AI chatbots for …