There’s Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious

Three years ago, OpenAI cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever raised eyebrows when he  declared that the era's most advanced neural networks might have already become "slightly conscious." That flair…

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After Its CEO Expressed Hesitation About AI, Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made an eyebrow-raising appearance on a podcast dismissing the hype around claims of having achieved "some [artificial general intelligence] milestone" as "nonsensical benchmark hacking."…

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