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Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT and Google Gemini Are Both Doomed All-purpose chatbots have an impossible job.
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Feb. 23, 2024
Can Reddit Survive Its IPO? The company wants to sell shares to users and user data to Google. Redditors might have other ideas.
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Feb. 22, 2024
AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve Google’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.
the money game
Feb. 21, 2024
‘The Most Important Stock on Planet Earth’ Just Got Even Bigger Nvidia makes the chips that power artificial intelligence, and there’s nothing stopping its domination.
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Feb. 16, 2024
OpenAI’s New Product, Sora, Is Already Producing Wild Videos It sure seems like a big jump forward in text-to-video technology.
Twitter Blocks Taylor Swift Searches Amid Pornographic AI Deep Fakes Several Congress members, as well as the White House press secretary, have spoken out against the images.
what we know
Jan. 26, 2024
Who Is Behind the Fake Biden Robocall in New Hampshire? The ElevenLabs AI voice generator was reportedly used to create the deepfaked audio, but it’s not yet clear who made it or sent out the robocall.
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Jan. 26, 2024
Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet Less a place of words written by people, more one of words generated by bots.
early and often
Jan. 18, 2024
Dean Phillips Met Sam Altman, Then Got Awfully Interested in AI Joe Biden’s Democratic rival is suddenly getting huge support from big tech, and now he can’t stop talking about artificial intelligence.
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Jan. 15, 2024
AI Is Coming for the Influencers Now, brands are paying to advertise with AI-generated content creators. Will it work?
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Dec. 17, 2023
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.
Sam Altman and OpenAI Are Victims of Their Own Hype The reaction to his firing says more about the anxiety around artificial intelligence and whether it can actually make a profit.
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.
artificial intelligence
Nov. 7, 2023
A New Jersey High School Is Investigating AI-Generated Nudes Students at Westfield High reportedly shared deep-fake images of female classmates via text.
How Big Tech Companies Really Think About AI We’re learning a lot from what tech companies’ lawyers argue in response to the many lawsuits they face over their voracious AI models.
Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age He insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?
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Sept. 23, 2023
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.
artificial intelligence
Sept. 22, 2023
George R.R. Martin Among 17 Authors Suing Over ChatGPT The New York–based Authors Guild wants to take OpenAI to court for “systematic theft.”
kryptonite
Sept. 18, 2023
Tim Burton Is in a ‘Quiet Revolt’ Over a Cameo in The Flash The cameo referenced Burton’s lost Superman Lives movie from 1998.
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Aug. 23, 2023
Welcome to the Age of AI-Powered Dating Apps Will it be better? More antagonistic? Sexless? Or just plain weird?
art-ificial intelligence
Aug. 21, 2023
AI-Generated Art Is Not Copyrightable, Judge Rules “Human authorship is an essential part of a valid copyright claim.”
Can Sarah Silverman’s AI Lawsuit Save Us From Robot Overlords? “That’s part of what these cases are about: Let’s open the black box. Let’s see what’s inside.”
Hollywood’s AI Future Is Now Anyone who’s seen a de-aged Tom Cruise or a resurrected Paul Walker on screen has seen that AI has already arrived in Hollywood.
How AI Will Change the News Business: 3 Theories The media industry is panicky. The tech companies are opaque. But some scenarios are starting to take shape.
vulture recommends
July 27, 2023
The Congress Is an Apocalyptically Timely Movie About AI Replacing ActorsThe 2013 sci-fi film, based on a Stanislaw Lem book, predicted the rise of AI and digital scanning.
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July 21, 2023
Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber? Many early users say so. But maybe the AI bot is just done with them.
respect the classics
July 14, 2023
Joe Walsh Will Worry About AI If It Starts Acting Like Keith Moon “It can’t throw a TV off the fifth floor into the pool and get it right in the middle.”
The Nowhere Election It’ll be every voter, and bot, for themselves.
artificial intelligence
June 20, 2023
Inside the AI Factory As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
artificial intelligence
June 2, 2023
Turns Out Chatbots Aren’t Great at Eating-Disorder Counseling The National Eating Disorders Association has disabled its helpline chatbot after it shared harmful advice with users.
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.
Congress Isn’t Ready for the AI Revolution What happens when millions of people lose their jobs to computers?
artificial intelligence
May 19, 2023
artificial intelligence
May 16, 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says He Wants Regulation for ChatGPT Altman told the Senate it’s time for regulators to step in to check the transformative power of artificial intelligence.
The End of Search As You Know It AI is about to turn content discovery on its head.
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike and the Threat of AI How did trolling about ChatGPT become the new “learn to code”?
artificial intelligence
May 5, 2023
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.
switched on pop
Apr. 21, 2023
More Drake AI Songs Are Coming They’re easier to make than you think.
higher education
Apr. 18, 2023
Pick a Practical Major, Like French Why everything we assume about a degree in humanities might be wrong.
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Mar. 31, 2023
Is AI Coming for Coders First? The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
Levi’s, You Can Just … Hire Diverse Models? In a confusing announcement, Levi’s announced it made AI models to be more diverse.
artificial intelligence
Mar. 24, 2023
Is AI Turning Me Into an Obsolete Machine? Everything you need to know about GPT-4 and my existential crisis.
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Mar. 22, 2023
What YouTube Hustlers Can Teach Us About AI These ethically challenged go-getters are bumping up against limits and questions that will soon feel familiar to everyone.
on with kara swisher
Mar. 21, 2023
Reid Hoffman on Why We Should All Want AI to Be Our Co-pilot The LinkedIn co-founder makes his best case for several new AI-based technologies and explains how he thinks they will change our lives.
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Mar. 15, 2023
The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived It’ll write your emails for you and read them, too. What could go wrong?
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