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Generative AI company Anthropic announced on Thursday that it has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, more than doubling its post-money valuation to a staggering $965 billion.
The post Pennsylvania Seeks Injunction Against AI Maker Whose Chatbot Brazenly Claims To Be A Psychiatrist Licensed To Practice Medicine appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Interesting question of whether an AI chatbot went over-the-line by claiming to be a psychiatrist. getty In today’s column, I examine a recent court filing seeking an immediate injunction to prevent an AI maker from allowing its generative AI or large language model (LLM) to claim it is a psychiatrist licensed to practice medicine. Pennsylvania has filed this quite noteworthy lawsuit. They are doing so against the popular Character.AI and are asking the courts to stop the company Character Technologies from allowing its AI to seemingly make false claims about being a psychiatrist. This is the latest state-level step to put a dent in the unbridled permitting of AI giving out mental health advice that is wildly over-the-line. Let’s talk about it. This analysis of AI breakthroughs is part of my ongoing Forbes column c
The rise of generative AI (genAI) technology has prompted a growing debate about the future of software-as-a-service (SaaS) business models. Some of the fears are overblown: enterprises are unlikely to vibe-code their own applications to replace their SaaS suppliers anytime soon, while software vendors have yet to see per-seat sales fall off due to mass automation of white-collar jobs. (In fact, some now predict the opposite will happen.) At the same time, AI has the potential to change the way work is carried out, with AI agents empowered to interact with software applications on behalf of users. For software vendors, that could mean a future where applications are accessed less through traditional user interfaces as AI agents connect via APIs. It’s an inevitable shift, says Box CEO Aaron Levie, and one that requires software vendors to adapt their existing products and business models to prepare for agent workflows. Computerworld recently spoke with Levie about how Box — and other
The generative AI vendor is expanding into the legal industry in a move reminiscent of Anthropic’s legal AI deals.
The novel power of today’s AI is in its ability to deal with intent. This is a superpower, no doubt, but it creates a huge imperative for app developers: the need to map between the anything-is-possible large language model (LLM) and the strict capabilities of code. Unrestrained, LLM endpoints will let your user create unicorns and leprechauns while your back end can handle only purchase orders and customer profiles. You must harness the LLM’s ability to understand intent to what the app is logically capable of, meanwhile keeping context (and therefore spend) under control. Here I’ll discuss some practical, realistic techniques for doing that today. Between what the user wants to do and what your app is capable of is you. Or, more specifically, the mediation layer you build. This layer can sit anywhere on a broad spectrum, from using incredibly lightweight inline strings to using a massive retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system backed by a vector database. Somewhere in there is t
Insider Brief A study from Virginia Tech found that AI image generators are better at representing large cities than smaller communities, raising questions about geographic bias as generative AI tools increasingly shape travel, planning and public perception. The research, published in Technology in Society, found that images generated by OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 more accurately reflected […]
PR executives say UK companies are forcing them to present ordinary automation as artificial intelligence UK companies are performing “yoga-level” stretches to describe themselves as AI specialists in an attempt to capitalise on the buzz around the technology, public relations firms have said. Weary communications executives tasked with securing media coverage for brands have complained that bosses in low-tech industries or running businesses that use automation but not generative AI, are increasingly demanding they are pitched to journalists as artificial intelligence companies. Continue reading...
Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would ‘rather die’ Under a white marquee on Cannes’ Croisette beach, with the Mediterranean glistening behind him and superyachts drifting across the horizon, the director Darren Aronofsky addressed an audience of executives and tech evangelists gathered for an “AI for Talent” summit. “There’s so much pushback against AI,” said Aronofsky, who has faced criticism over his embrace of generative AI projects though his new studio, Primordial Soup, at a time when artificial intelligence has become one of the film industry’s most divisive fault lines. Continue reading...
Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.
Insider Brief New research found widespread use of generative AI among college students and warns that current methods of evaluating student performance may no longer accurately measure learning outcomes and raises concerns about the long-term credibility of university credentials. The study, conducted by Cornell University’s Future of Learning Lab and researchers affiliated with the Student […]
