Author: aristotle
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Mapping Elon Musks Global Empire
The Money Money Money Issue Rich Men Rule the World: A Letter From the Editor A Spymaster Sheikh Controls $1.5 Trillion—and Wants to Dominate AI Elana Klein is WIRED’s editorial assistant. Previously, she worked at Business Insider and New Orleans Public Radio. Anthony Lydgate is a senior editor at WIRED, where he works on magazine
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Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness and great regret,” according to
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Music Can Thrive in the AI Era
The birth of ChatGPT brought a collection of anxieties regarding how large language models allow users to quickly subvert processes that once required human time, effort, passion, and understanding. And further, the tech sector’s often stormy relationship with regulation and ethical oversight have left many fearful for a future where artificial intelligence replaces humans at
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Robots with Feeling: How Tactile AI Could Transform Human-Robot Relationships
Sentient robots have been a staple of science fiction for decades, raising tantalizing ethical questions and shining light on the technical barriers of creating artificial consciousness. Much of what the tech world has achieved in artificial intelligence (AI) today is thanks to recent advances in deep learning, which allows machines to learn automatically during training.
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AI and Financial Crime Prevention: Why Banks Need a Balanced Approach
AI is a two-sided coin for banks: while it’s unlocking many possibilities for more efficient operations, it can also pose external and internal risks. Financial criminals are leveraging the technology to produce deepfake videos, voices and fake documents that can get past computer and human detection, or to supercharge email fraud activities. In the US
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3 Core Principles to Drive ROI from GenAI Deployments
Company leaders are eager to deploy generative AI (GenAI) in their businesses. So, why are so many projects failing to make it out of the proof of concept (POC) stage? At a recent Gartner event, Rita Sallam, distinguished vice-president analyst, said that at least 30% of GenAI projects will be dropped after POCs by the end of
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Worry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects AGI, or artificial general intelligence—AI that outperforms humans at most tasks—around 2027 or 2028. Elon Musk’s prediction is either 2025 or 2026, and he has claimed that he was “losing sleep over the threat of AI danger.” But predictions of imminent human-level AI have been made for over 50 years
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A Comprehensive AI Vision in Financial Services for 2025 and Beyond
The Financial Services industry (FSI) is a space where AI has long been a reality, rather than a hype-cycle pipe dream. With analytics and data science firmly embedded in areas like fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML) and risk management, the industry is about to pioneer another wave of AI-fueled capabilities, powered by generative AI-based technologies.
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How Business Leaders Can Achieve Their Goals in Both AI and Sustainability
For companies, balancing AI adoption and environmental impact is an imperative. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the power needed to support AI’s growth is doubling every 100 days. By 2028, AI’s energy consumption could exceed the total power used by Iceland in 2021. AI can be a double-edged sword: while it can significantly
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Lenovo and Motorola Unveil Hyper-Personalized AI Assistants at Tech World 2024: The Future of Personalized AI or Privacy Infringers?
At Lenovo’s Tech World 2024, both Lenovo and Motorola presented groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) innovations, aiming to push the boundaries of hyper-personalization in consumer technology. Lenovo debuted “ AI Now ,” a generative artificial intelligence (genAI) system built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 AI model, which promises to make PCs smarter by turning them into personalized