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News Articles: Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's xAI took over this factory in Memphis, Tenn., earlier this year. This is where it's building a supercomputer to fuel artificial intelligence.

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  • Business

How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer

A massive project headed by Elon Musk in Memphis, Tenn., to power AI has moved at breakneck speed. But it's stirring controversy around pollution emissions. The EPA says it’s looking into it.

September 14, 2024
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  • Dara Kerr
An AI-generated depiction of Donald Trump riding a lion. The image was first posted by a Trump supporter on X before Trump reposted the depiction on his Truth Social account. Trump has embracing reposting AI-generated images created by his supporters. NPR added the borders to the image to make clear the image was AI-generated.

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  • Politics

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election

Donald Trump has repeatedly shared AI-generated content on social media in the latest example of how artificial intelligence is showing up in the 2024 election.

August 31, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
The scene from a Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rally in Detroit on Aug. 7. Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that another picture of the rally showing a large crowd was generated by artificial intelligence.

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  • Technology

Why false claims that a picture of a Kamala Harris rally was AI-generated matter

"This is a photo of an event in one city on one day," said one AI researcher. "I mean, what hope do we have to actually tackle complex problems in society if we can't agree on this?"

August 14, 2024
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  • Jude Joffe-Block
 An image created by Midjourney AI.

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  • Politics

Artificial Intelligence on the minds of Georgia Senate study committee

The Georgia Senate Artificial Intelligence Study Committee is set to meet Wednesday at Georgia Tech to explore the extent Georgia lawmakers should promote policies to attract AI business and research and how much they should focus on preventing pitfalls like loss of jobs or privacy.

July 16, 2024
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  • Ross Williams
Andrii Denysenko, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp," stands by Odyssey, an 800-kilogram (1,750-pound) ground drone prototype, at a cornfield in northern Ukraine on June 28, 2024. Facing manpower shortages and uneven international assistance, Ukraine is counting heavily on innovation at home to halt Russia’s incremental but pounding advance in the east.

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  • Europe

Ukrainian startups are creating a low-cost robot army to fight Russia

An ecosystem of labs in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians.

July 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Researchers found that AI could increase the creativity of individual writers, but it also led to many similar stories.

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  • Science

Research shows AI can boost creativity for some, but at a cost

Amateur writers using AI tools produced stories that were deemed more creative, but the research suggests the creativity of the group overall went down.

July 12, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks on-stage during an annual conference in San Francisco with the back drop of a massive data center.

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  • Business

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change

The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

July 12, 2024
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  • Dara Kerr

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  • News

Artificial intelligence to affect broad range of public services

Georgia lawmakers may or may not develop legislation this summer and fall to establish state standards for regulating emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

July 08, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Students in AI Camp react to teacher Joe Finkelstien prompting an AI on the projector. From left to right, campers from the week of June 10, 2024: Christabelle Kabuye, Bryson Brandon, Aiden Wright, and Lawson Surles.

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  • Technology

A Macon day camp introduces kids to the ethics of AI

Young children today may never know a time without AI.  So how do you teach kids to use AI effectively — and ethically?

July 01, 2024
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  • Taleen Hanna
The Senate Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence panel at their first meeting on June 26, 2024. (Ambria Burton/GPB News)

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  • Politics

‘Part of the fabric of our society.’ State Senate committee on AI holds first meeting

On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, the Senate Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence met for its first meeting. Created from Senate Resolution 476, the study committee will dedicate seven to eight meetings to look at AI, its current and future in Georgia, and the concerns surrounding it in society.

June 27, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
An Amazon Prime truck is seen on April 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore.

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  • Business

Amazon becomes the 5th U.S. company to reach $2 trillion in stock market value

Amazon's stock has gained 52% in the past 12 months, partly driven by enthusiasm for the company's investments in artificial intelligence.

June 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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  • National

In writing the country’s most sweeping AI law, Colorado focused on fairness, preventing bias

Other states are watching as the law is refined before taking effect in 2026 but it’s getting praise for at least being a first step in regulating AI

June 22, 2024
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  • Bente Birkeland
The gold dome of the Georgia Capitol gleams in the sun, Aug. 27, 2022, in front of the skyline of downtown Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Georgia Senate study committees to look at firearm safety, AI, correction facilities, more

The 2024 Georgia General Assembly Senate Study Committees are in session starting this week. Like bills, study committees are proposed during the legislative session but as resolutions the sponsor believes need further examining during the off-season.  This year's study committees will analyze several topics, including firearm safety, artificial intelligence, affordable child care, and more.

June 18, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
 Lost in automation?

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  • Economy

If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators?

Machine translation of foreign languages has been good for a while. And yet human translators are still in demand. Why isn’t AI killing these jobs? And even if it isn’t, how is it reshaping them?

June 18, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Apple software chief Craig Federighi, right, pictured with exec John Giannandrea, announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring AI features to its products. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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  • Technology

Apple doubles down on artificial intelligence, announcing partnership with OpenAI

Apple has announced a much-anticipated partnership with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The deal to bring AI features to iPhones and other devices is a major move for Apple, which has been slower than some competitors to jump on the AI bandwagon.

June 13, 2024
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  • Lola Murti and
  • Dara Kerr
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