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  1. pivot
    DeepSeek May Be the Walmart of AIIn the most recent episode of Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the Chinese AI firm and its cost-effective new model.
  2. screen time
    What Messing With Chatbots Tells Us About the Future of AIA memorable exchange about catapults shows that chatbots still break, but they’re getting better at not taking the bait.
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    The Other Big Problem With AI SearchWhat if plagiarism is the whole product?
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    Google Is About to Change the Whole Internet — AgainThe company’s all-in investment in AI.
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    The Deodorant AI Spokesmodel Is a Real Person, Sort OfAn AI-generated ad for deodorant wipes has driven the internet insane.
  6. what we know
    How AI Is Being Used to Influence and Disrupt the 2024 ElectionThe BBC found dozens of deep fakes showing Trump surrounded by Black supporters. It’s just one of many ways AI is being leveraged for politics.
  7. screen time
    AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They DeserveGoogle’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.
  8. on with kara swisher
    Congressman Mike Gallagher on Why TikTok Is Still a ThreatThe GOP lawmaker tells Kara Swisher that national security is more important than young voters’ feelings.
  9. screen time
    What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves?AI is great at creating uncanny-valley product photos. Its utility for consumers is less clear.
  10. screen time
    How AI Will Change the News Business: 3 TheoriesThe media industry is panicky. The tech companies are opaque. But some scenarios are starting to take shape.
  11. tomorrow
    Congress Isn’t Ready for the AI RevolutionWhat happens when millions of people lose their jobs to computers?
  12. just asking questions
    What Keeps a Leading AI Scientist Up At NightArtificial intelligence legend Stuart Russell worries that programmers have already lost track of what their creations can do.
  13. screen time
    Is AI Coming for Coders First?The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
  14. our ai overlords
    5 Incredible, Frightening Things the New AI Chatbot Can DoGPT-4 is here.
  15. the future
    Will DALL-E the AI Artist Take My Job?I was unnerved by how well DALL-E 2 mimics a human photo editor, turning text into original artwork. So I put my AI competition to the test.
  16. the future issue
    In 2029, AI Will Make Prejudice Much WorseIf you think structural bias is bad now, just wait until the machines take over.
  17. technology
    Google Duplex Still Cant Get Its Disclosure RightGoogle said Duplex, its AI system that makes phone calls for you, would disclose it is a robot at the start of all calls. It’s not doing quite that.
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    Google Can’t Understand Me Unless I Speak Spanish in an American AccentJust as train conductors are taught to pronounce local destinations, voice assistants have a responsibility to understand a variety of accents.
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    Don’t Worry, IBM’s AI Debater Can’t Beat Humans … YetThe AI also wanted to warn us humans about the dangers of mass surveillance.
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    Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Stagnant PresentAmerican society has come to follow the same logic as glitch-hunting AIs, and in the process become vulnerable to huge inequalities and injustices.
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    This Is What Robots Think Nudes AreAI porn is awful, but AI nude portraits are nice!
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    AI-Created Celebrity Porn Is Getting Erased From Its Favorite Image-Hosting Site“Deepfakes” will have to find a new home.
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    AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Is Realistic, Easy to Create, and TerrifyingImagine having your face swapped — very convincingly — into a porn video. That’s what AI can do.
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    Anthony Levandowski Thinks His AI Church Worshippers Will Need Their Own CountryThe ex–Uber engineer believes technology is something that should be worshipped.
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    MIT Researchers Developed an AI That Writes Horror Stories Based on Your TweetsJust in case you weren’t already scared of technology.
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    Apple, Breaking Years of Secrecy, Jumps Into AI ConsortiumApple, lagging badly behind its competitors in artificial intelligence, decides to join them.
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    Obama on the Risks of AI: ‘You Just Gotta Have Somebody Close to the Power Cord’The president sat down with MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito for an interview about the future, in Wired.
  28. Gmail Understood My Breakup Better Than I DidHow Google built an algorithm to peer into my soul.
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    How I Built a Bot to Write Full House EpisodesSitcoms are America’s greatest renewable resource for weird projects online.