DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman desires to construct a chatbot that does an entire lot greater than chat. In a latest dialog he had with our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, he defined his view that generative AI is only a part.
What’s subsequent, he says, is interactive AI: bots that may perform duties you set for them by calling on different software program and folks to get stuff carried out. He additionally requires strong regulation—and doesn’t suppose that’ll be arduous to realize.
Whereas many will scoff at Suleyman’s model of techno-optimism—even naïveté—he isn’t the one one speaking up a future stuffed with ever extra autonomous software program. And, in contrast to most individuals, he has a brand new billion-dollar firm, Inflection, with a roster of top-tier expertise. It could simply put him able to vary the world within the methods he’s all the time wished to. Read the full story.
How new tech helps folks circumvent digital authoritarianism
Questions on who will get to manage the web and who will get entry to on-line info are central to the way forward for our world. They’ve ramifications for geopolitics, free speech, nationwide safety, political organizing, human rights, fairness, and energy distribution on the whole.
We’re within the midst of a quiet technological arms race between the censors and people attempting to evade them. And as folks develop extra depending on digital instruments and platforms, the hurt carried out by on-line censorship turns into extra severe. Read the full story.
—Tate Ryan-Mosley
