More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn in a new paper that self-improving AI could trigger an intelligence explosion.
Economists at Munich’s CESifo published the working paper The Early Impacts of AI on Employment Among Recent College Graduates. Contrary to an earlier Stanford study, it finds no evidence of significant, widespread reductions or substitution in graduate hiring in absolute or relative terms.
Researchers from Oxford, the UK AI safety institute, Stanford and LSE found AI consistently more persuasive in text across four experiments with 6,923 participants and 18,978 conversations, even when experts chose topics, researched in advance and were incentivised with £1,000 prizes.
Google Quantum AI published a white paper saying future quantum computers would require fewer qubits and gates than previously estimated to break the elliptic-curve cryptography protecting cryptocurrencies.
Google Research and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conducted a prospective, single-centre feasibility study in which AMIE held text consultations with patients before outpatient primary care visits, under live physician supervision by video.