'If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff': Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren't inevitable

‘If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff’: Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren’t inevitable

Efficiency gains are often cited as the reason to bring more AI into the workplace, though concerns over resulting job losses are never far behind. It might surprise you, then, to learn that the head of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, actually thinks job cuts caused by AI are not the way forward. Today’s wealth of…

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Sam Altman says ChatGPT won’t talk to teens about suicide any more, as bereaved parents testify to the US Senate about what’s going wrong: ‘This is a mental health war, and I really feel like we are losing’

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said in a new blogpost that the company’s main product, the…

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Subnautica 2’s no-killing policy isn’t because it’s ‘a game about pacifism’, says design lead, but because players would ‘master the crappy combat’ over anything else

Subnautica 2 got into a bit of hot water (get it?) recently over some Discord comments that bluntly stated it wasn’t a “killing game”. Now, I didn’t exactly buy into the critique of the game centered around that—I think it’s perfectly fine for videogames to be about different things—but I do appreciate that being hounded…

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A publisher nobody’s heard of has ‘unintentionally’ re-released 2006’s Scarface: The World Is Yours early, and I’m not so sure ’bout this one, boss

The year is 2025, and there’s no better indication that we live in an increasingly meaningless and absurdist hellscape than the fact I read the news “They’re re-releasing a 2006 videogame based on a 1984 movie, but with upscaled graphics, but also they might have just bundled mods into it without anyone’s permission” and thought…

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