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Aug 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Wooldridge |Melanie Mitchell |Rudi Zygadlo |Michael Safi
This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 4 March 2024. This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they do not truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
arxiv.org | James Fox |Michael Wooldridge
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
varnumlaw.com | Michael Wooldridge
Varnum partner Mike Wooldridge has been named to the West Michigan Dealmakers Hall of Fame by Crain’s Grand Rapids Business. Wooldridge was selected by a five-member independent judging panel including deal attorneys and M&A advisors. For more than 35 years, Wooldridge has represented many of the community’s best known private and publicly traded companies in their most significant deals as well as other representation.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Wooldridge |Michael Safi
This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequences How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Wooldridge |Melanie Mitchell |Rudi Zygadlo |Michael Safi
This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequences How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Michael Wooldridge |Henry Hitchings |Philip Ball |Pablo Scheffer
In June 2022 a Google software engineer called Blake Lemoine made some extraordinary claims that ultimately cost him his job. According to him, one of the artificial intelligence (AI) programs on which he had been working was sentient. The program, called LaMDA, was a “large language Model” (LLM) – out of the same mould as ChatGPT, the general-purpose AI program that took the world by storm in the first half of 2023. Like ChatGPT, LaMDA is designed to converse with a human being.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
historyextra.com | Michael Wooldridge
Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the most hyped technology since the World Wide Web. Its development has been driven by enormous investment from big tech companies desperate to steal a march on their competitors – and the future of trillion-dollar businesses hinges on whether it succeeds or fails. Progress has been so rapid that some informed observers even claim that machines with the full range of human capabilities (‘general AI’) may soon be here.
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May 18, 2023 | 
freethink.com | Michael Wooldridge
Thanks to ChatGPT we can all, finally, experience artificial intelligence. All you need is a web browser, and you can talk directly to the most sophisticated AI system on the planet — the crowning achievements of 70 years of effort. And it seems like real AI — the AI we have all seen in the movies. So, does this mean we have finally found the recipe for true AI? Is the end of the road for AI now in sight? AI is one of humanity’s oldest dreams.
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May 17, 2023 | 
bigthink.com | Michael Wooldridge
Key Takeaways Artificial intelligence has been a dream for centuries, but it only recently went “viral” because of enormous progress in computing power and data analysis. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are essentially a very sophisticated form of auto-complete. The reason they are so impressive is because the training data consists of the entire internet.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
bigthink.com | Michael Wooldridge
The use of AI in our daily lives is becoming more ubiquitous than ever before. Anything you read online could be written, or assisted, by AI. But is it possible to know whether you’re reading words typed by a human or generated by a machine? And can computers really be considered “intelligent”? Alan Turing, a British mathematician and computer scientist who played a pivotal role in WWII codebreaking, was one of the first people to think about these questions seriously, back in the 1950s.
