ChatGPT’s Most Charming Trick Is Also Its Biggest Flaw
[ad_1] Like many other people over the past week, Bindu Reddy recently fell under the spell of ChatGPT, a free chatbot that can answer all manner of questions with stunning and…
‘Magic Avatar’ App Lensa Generated Nudes From My Childhood Photos
[ad_1] This weekend, the photo-editing app Lensa flooded social media with celestial, iridescent, and anime-inspired “magic avatars.” As is typical in our milkshake-duck internet news cycle, arguments as to why…
AI Reveals the Most Human Parts of Writing
[ad_1] Still, in many cases, letting a computer impact the direction of a project, rather than craft a few choice sentences, can feel like giving the computer the reins when…
San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
[ad_1] One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department of Defense program that sends billions of dollars of military…
Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
[ad_1] Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned about, such as outputting hateful text and disinformation en…
This Singer Deepfaked Her Own Voice—and Thinks You Should Too
[ad_1] In 2019, Herndon released PROTO, a collaboration with an AI created by Herndon and her regular group of collaborators, including her partner Mat Dryhurst. They called it Spawn and they…
This Copyright Lawsuit Could Shape the Future of Generative AI
[ad_1] The tech industry might be reeling from a wave of layoffs, a dramatic crypto-crash, and ongoing turmoil at Twitter, but despite those clouds some investors and entrepreneurs are already eyeing a new boom—built…
Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips
[ad_1] Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first…
Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
[ad_1] Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its warehouses. There is still plenty of work for humans…
Google Expands Flood and Wildfire Tracking to More Countries
[ad_1] A gaggle of new AI projects are coming soon from Google, including disaster monitoring tools and a service that uses machine intelligence to generate custom videos. The company announced…
Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
[ad_1] As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have installed “ethical AI” teams ostensibly dedicated to identifying and…
Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Washington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
[ad_1] Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use…
Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
[ad_1] Next week, a law takes effect that will change the internet forever—and make it much more difficult to be a tech giant. On November 1, the European Union’s Digital…
AI’s New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold Rush
[ad_1] In the years since, a wave of investment from companies large and small has spread face recognition around the world, has installed always-listening virtual assistants into homes, and has…
US Chip Sanctions ‘Kneecap’ China’s Tech Industry
[ad_1] Baidu, the leading Chinese web search provider and a key player in cloud AI services and autonomous driving, also uses Nvidia chips extensively in its data centers. Last October…
AI Shouldn’t Compete With Workers—It Should Supercharge Them
[ad_1] Instead of merely saving costs by replacing humans with a bot, Brynjolfsson notes, augmentation increases people’s productivity. Better yet, some of the economic value of that productivity would accrue…
The Signal for Help I Created Went Viral. Now It Could Be Misused
[ad_1] In 2020, I helped create the Signal for Help, a hand signal that communicates to friends, family, and bystanders that “I need you to check in on me in…
Hurricane Ian Destroyed Their Homes. Algorithms Sent Them Money
[ad_1] When Hurricane Ian churned over Florida in late September, it left a trail of destruction from high winds and flooding. But a week after the storm passed, some people…
What Makes a Champagne Vintage Great? Ask a Deep Learning Model
[ad_1] In early 2021, Bollinger’s winemakers were able to get their first taste of La Grande Année 2014, a prestige fizz that had been aging in the champagne house’s cellars…
What’s Deepfake Bruce Willis Doing in My Metaverse?
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. So now Elon wants to buy Twitter, allegedly to help him build X, “the everything” app. Sweet of him to name it after his kid. The Plain…
Biden’s AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big Tech
[ad_1] Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced that the US needed a bill of rights for the age of algorithms. Harms from artificial…
Elon Musk’s Half-Baked Robot Is a Clunky First Step
[ad_1] Some robot experts watching saw a project that appeared to be quickly getting up to speed. “There’s nothing fundamentally groundbreaking, but they are doing cool stuff,” says Stefanie Tellex,…
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
[ad_1] For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory of labeled data. An image might be labeled “tabby cat”…
The Problem With Mental Health Bots
[ad_1] Teresa Berkowitz’s experiences with therapists had been hit or miss. ”Some good, some helpful, some just a waste of time and money,” she says. When some childhood trauma was…
Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
[ad_1] Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning…