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Eric Schmidt Awards A.I. Researchers $10M to Study Safety

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Eric Schmidt previously headed Google for a decade. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME Investing in the future of A.I. is nothing new for Eric Schmidt, who has spent the past few years backing dozens of startups like Stability AI, Inflection AI and Mistral AI. But through a new $10 million venture aiming to bolster research … Read more

Microsoft Researchers Find A.I. Tools Erode ‘Quality of Human Thought’

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A new survey correlated higher confidence in A.I. tools to less critical thinking. Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash Humans have always been wary of how technological advances could deteriorate our thinking skills. The printing press, for example, led some to worry that scribes would become lazy; calculators spooked math teachers; and the internet spawned … Read more