Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve
As Media Lab students in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 teamed up for a class project to build a tool that would help...
Conversational AI revolutionizes the customer experience landscape
In the ever-evolving landscape of customer experiences, AI has become a beacon guiding businesses toward seamless interactions. While AI has been transforming businesses long before the latest wave of viral...
How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature
Everything reminds me of Her. While ChatGPT is not as powerful as the artificial intelligence from Spike Jonze’s sci-fi romance movie, OpenAI’s experimental memory tool for its chatbot seems to...
How a Small Iowa Newspaper’s Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory
In his spare time, Tony Eastin likes to dabble in the stock market. One day last year, he Googled a pharmaceutical company that seemed like a promising investment. One of...
Only fools believe stock surge is just the ‘Magnificent 7’ — It’s not
Current mythology claims “just a handful of stocks” took the S&P 500 to new highs. Supposedly AI hype driving the “Magnificent 7” Tech stocks in a 2000-era bubblicious redux. Wrong....
These major companies are using AI to snoop on employees’ online chats
Gone are the days of in-office water cooler chats, The work from home movement has given way for more employee chats to take place online. However, remote workers may want to...
AT&T to credit customers a full day of service for Thursday outage: ‘Right thing to do’
AT&T will credit customers a full day of service for the carrier’s more than 10-hour outage on Thursday that affected more than 70,000 users, saying it was the “right thing...
Ex-Google exec claims he was denied promotion by woke tech firm because he’s a white man
A rising tech star at Google left the “woke” company after being told he wouldn’t get promoted because he is a white man – only to get the last laugh...
Google News’ bias skewed even further left in 2023 — 63% from liberal media sources, only 6% from the right: analysis
Google’s already left-leaning news aggregator platform Google News skewed even more off the charts in 2023, according to a recent analysis. Media company AllSides’ latest bias analysis found that 63%...
