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  1. screen time
    What Do AI Companies Want With the Media?The big deal OpenAI just inked with Axel Springer offers a glimpse of how AI and the media might eventually intersect.
    By John Herrman
  2. technology
    Sam Altman and OpenAI Are Victims of Their Own HypeThe reaction to his firing says more about the anxiety around artificial intelligence and whether it can actually make a profit.
    By John Herrman
  3. screen time
    What Does It Mean That Elon Musk’s New AI Chatbot Is ‘Anti-Woke’?It is useful to think of public-facing AI chatbots characters with personalities. There’s a new one in the mix.
    By John Herrman
  4. screen time
    How Big Tech Companies Really Think About AIWe’re learning a lot from what tech companies’ lawyers argue in response to the many lawsuits they face over their voracious AI models.
    By John Herrman
  5. tomorrow
    Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our AgeHe insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?
    By Elizabeth Weil
  6. screen time
    The AI Chatbot Assistants Are Here. Do We Actually Want Them?Sometimes I just want to use my computer, not tell it what to do.
    By John Herrman
  7. screen time
    Welcome to the Age of AI-Powered Dating AppsWill it be better? More antagonistic? Sexless? Or just plain weird?
    By John Herrman
  8. 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.
    By John Herrman
  9. screen time
    Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber?Many early users say so. But maybe the AI bot is just done with them.
    By John Herrman
  10. screen time
    The Nowhere ElectionIt’ll be every voter, and bot, for themselves.
    By John Herrman
  11. artificial intelligence
    Inside the AI FactoryAs the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
    By Josh Dzieza
  12. screen time
    Will Google’s AI Plans Destroy the Media?The new bot-generated content is ominous for digital publishers. But the search giant might have a reason to pull back.
    By John Herrman
  13. tomorrow
    Congress Isn’t Ready for the AI RevolutionWhat happens when millions of people lose their jobs to computers?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  14. artificial intelligence
    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says He Wants Regulation for ChatGPTAltman told the Senate it’s time for regulators to step in to check the transformative power of artificial intelligence.
    By Matt Stieb
  15. screen time
    The Hollywood Writers’ Strike and the Threat of AIHow did trolling about ChatGPT become the new “learn to code”?
    By John Herrman
  16. artificial intelligence
    Can ChatGPT Write a Good College-Admissions Essay?As a sought-after tutor, I needed an answer to this question. So I conducted an experiment.
    By Sanibel Chai
  17. higher education
    Pick a Practical Major, Like FrenchWhy everything we assume about a degree in humanities might be wrong.
    By Freddie deBoer
  18. screen time
    Is AI Coming for Coders First?The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
    By John Herrman
  19. artificial intelligence
    Is AI Turning Me Into an Obsolete Machine?Everything you need to know about GPT-4 and my existential crisis.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. screen time
    What YouTube Hustlers Can Teach Us About AIThese ethically challenged go-getters are bumping up against limits and questions that will soon feel familiar to everyone.
    By John Herrman
  21. on with kara swisher
    Reid Hoffman on Why We Should All Want AI to Be Our Co-pilotThe LinkedIn co-founder makes his best case for several new AI-based technologies and explains how he thinks they will change our lives.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  22. screen time
    The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has ArrivedIt’ll write your emails for you and read them, too. What could go wrong?
    By John Herrman
  23. artificial intelligence
    You Are Not a ParrotAnd a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
    By Elizabeth Weil
  24. on with kara swisher
    Trae Stephens on the Ethics of AI WarfareKara Swisher talks to the Anduril co-founder about autonomous weapons, the innovation lag in the defense sector, and tech as deterrence.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  25. screen time
    Why Bing Is Being CreepyIt’s doing what it was trained to do by reading our stories and absorbing our anxieties. (Not that Microsoft is happy about it.)
    By John Herrman
  26. screen time
    Google and Bing Are a Mess. Will AI Solve Their Problems?This new era of search is a story about automation. But it’s also a story about corporate choices.
    By John Herrman
  27. artificial intelligence
    Fear Not, Conservatives, the Chatbot Won’t Turn Your Kid WokeThe American right’s problem isn’t that a talking robot is propagating liberal ideology.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. artificial intelligence
    AI Journalist Plagiarized More Than a High-School StudentSometimes robots commit very human errors.
    By Benjamin Hart
  29. screen time
    Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like MagicThis is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
    By John Herrman
  30. screen time
    The Machine Will Speak With You NowDALL-E’s fun, impressive, and somewhat unsettling chatbot sibling is open to the public.
    By John Herrman
  31. screen time
    Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking FutureHe charmed his fans with visions of Mars and cool cars. But an “everything app” just sounds like a nightmare.
    By John Herrman
  32. screen time
    AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already DifferentWork, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.
    By John Herrman
  33. 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.
    By Megan Paetzhold
  34. 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.
    By Lisa Miller
  35. just asking questions
    ‘Any Further Interference Is Likely to Be Disastrous’“Gaia theory” scientist James Lovelock talks about nuclear power and his hope that AI might save the planet from catastrophic warming.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  36. man of the people
    Peter Thiel Makes a Nakedly Political Play in the New York TimesThiel rails against the Silicon Valley bubble as if he’s somehow not emblematic of it.
    By Brian Feldman
  37. bias
    Siri, Are Feminine AI Voices Sexist?The leading tech companies all offer feminized assistants that perpetuate gender stereotypes.
    By Brian Feldman
  38. decisions
    How the Roomba Company Decided to Stop Making Bots for the MilitaryCEO Colin Angle explains why iRobot divested itself of its work for the defense industry.
    As told to Jake Swearingen
  39. artificial intelligence
    Should This Chinese AI Bot Replace All News Anchors?A hard question with no easy answers.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Facebook Researchers Use Powerful AI to Fix Blinking in PhotosUsing powerful algorithms to solve our most frustrating global issues.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Will Continue Defense Work, But Not on ‘Technologies That Cause Harm’The company won’t use AI to violate human rights, which is the least we can ask.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Duplex Makes Your Life Easier by Making It More Difficult for OthersA system designed to mask interacting with a computer should be scrutinized, not celebrated.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Apple Decides It’s Serious About AI NowThe Cupertino company poached one of Google’s most prominent executives.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Says It Can Now Predict Flight Delays Before Airlines ThemselvesThanks to a bunch of historical data and machine learning.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Janelle Shane’s Neural Network Keeps Producing Hilarious, Terrifying CreationsTime for a nice, warm bowl of Crimm Grunk Garlic Cleas.
    By Brian Feldman
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    A School Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Make Sure Students FocusUsing artificial intelligence to figure out who is daydreaming in class.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    This New AI Tool Makes Great Art. It Could Also Make Great Fake News.Pix2pix, a new image-generating neural network, is a stunning demonstration of the potential for AI to create fake news and weird-looking cats.
    By Greg Noone
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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.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Two Google Homes Are Arguing About Whether They’re Human Right NowThey love each other and one of them thinks it’s human.
    By Brian Feldman
  50. Google Wants to Learn How You Speak. What Then?It doesn’t want to help you; it wants to become you.
    By Brian Feldman
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