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Artificial Intelligence
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.
By John Herrman
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
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.
By Tariro Mzezewa
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.
By John Herrman
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?
By Elizabeth Weil
screen time
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.
By John Herrman
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.”
By Jennifer Zhan
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.
By Alejandra Gularte
screen time
Aug. 23, 2023
Welcome to the Age of AI-Powered Dating Apps Will it be better? More antagonistic? Sexless? Or just plain weird?
By John Herrman
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.”
By Zoe Guy
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.”
By Victoria Bekiempis
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.
By Sam Sanders
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.
By John Herrman
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.
By Emma Stefansky
screen time
July 21, 2023
Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber? Many early users say so. But maybe the AI bot is just done with them.
By John Herrman
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.”
By Devon Ivie
The Nowhere Election It’ll be every voter, and bot, for themselves.
By John Herrman
artificial intelligence
June 20, 2023
Inside the AI Factory As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
By Josh Dzieza
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.
By Bindu Bansinath
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
Congress Isn’t Ready for the AI Revolution What happens when millions of people lose their jobs to computers?
By Kevin T. Dugan
artificial intelligence
May 19, 2023
By Rebecca Alter
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.
By Matt Stieb
The End of Search As You Know It AI is about to turn content discovery on its head.
By Sam Sanders
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike and the Threat of AI How did trolling about ChatGPT become the new “learn to code”?
By John Herrman
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.
By Sanibel Chai
switched on pop
Apr. 21, 2023
More Drake AI Songs Are Coming They’re easier to make than you think.
By Charlie Harding
higher education
Apr. 18, 2023
Pick a Practical Major, Like French Why everything we assume about a degree in humanities might be wrong.
By Freddie deBoer
screen time
Mar. 31, 2023
Is AI Coming for Coders First? The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
By John Herrman
Levi’s, You Can Just … Hire Diverse Models? In a confusing announcement, Levi’s announced it made AI models to be more diverse.
By Tariro Mzezewa
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.
By Eric Levitz
screen time
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.
By John Herrman
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.
By Intelligencer Staff
screen time
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?
By John Herrman
relationships
Mar. 10, 2023
The Man of Your Dreams For $300, Replika sells an AI companion who will never die, argue, or cheat — until his algorithm is updated.
By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
love and war
Mar. 7, 2023
Ghosted by an App Dating apps gave us new paths toward love, but more and more banned users think they’ve also given us new channels for revenge.
By Lauren Larson
6 Stand-ups Analyze ChatGPT’s Attempts to Steal Their Jobs “It’s eerie, but there are comedians who are worse than this.”
By Hershal Pandya
artificial intelligence
Mar. 1, 2023
You Are Not a Parrot And 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
on with kara swisher
Feb. 21, 2023
Trae Stephens on the Ethics of AI Warfare Kara Swisher talks to the Anduril co-founder about autonomous weapons, the innovation lag in the defense sector, and tech as deterrence.
By Intelligencer Staff
screen time
Feb. 16, 2023
Why Bing Is Being Creepy It’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
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
artificial intelligence
Feb. 8, 2023
Fear Not, Conservatives, the Chatbot Won’t Turn Your Kid Woke The American right’s problem isn’t that a talking robot is propagating liberal ideology.
By Eric Levitz
artificial intelligence
Jan. 24, 2023
By Benjamin Hart
screen time
Jan. 18, 2023
Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic This is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
By John Herrman
screen time
Dec. 27, 2022
Soon You’ll Be Able to Make Your Own Feature-Length Movie With AI Some argue that AI is too derivative. But in Hollywood, shallow riffing on preexisting IP is a lucrative skill.
By Lane Brown
The Machine Will Speak With You Now DALL-E’s fun, impressive, and somewhat unsettling chatbot sibling is open to the public.
By John Herrman
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