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AI is a shiny distraction from college funding. Workload is not the issue. The issue is 16-19 year olds aren’t funded for ...

Imagine a superintelligent AI has been set the goal of producing as many paper clips as possible. Bostrom suggested it could quickly decide that killing all humans was pivotal to its mission ...

scenario than the one where humanity is destroyed because a rogue AI leads the world into a paperclip apocalypse. The problem with all of these confident forecasts is that no one knows the future ...

Before artificial intelligence can take over the world, it has to solve one problem. The bots are hallucinating. AI-powered tools like ChatGPT have mesmerized us with their ability to produce ...

the "paperclip problem" to be exact (the company that created you is even called Paperclip International). Hypothesised by philosopher Nick Bostrom, it suggests that if an AI were given a ...

Or it could finally realize the paper-clip scenario, in which we give AI free rein to solve one problem, like making paper clips, and it diverts all global resources toward that problem ...

The card game Set has long inspired mathematicians to create interesting problems. Now, a technique based on large language models (LLMs) is showing that artificial intelligence (AI) can help ...

3, the mythical "Paperclip Maximizer ... An AI monster generated by Midjourney. AI Generated Art by Newsweek via Midjourney Every problem that digital chatbots have ever had—that they're ...