Google’s GenAI Bots Are Struggling. But so Are Its Humans
The last few months have been rough for Google. Company executives have been in the hot seat because of some embarrassing missteps, the most awkward of which was the bungled...
The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI
Elon Musk last week sued two of his OpenAI cofounders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of “flagrant breaches” of the trio’s original agreement that the company would develop...
Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Hall says when she has access to an interpreter, they are rotated throughout the week, forcing her to repeatedly explain some technical concepts. “Google is going the cheap route,” Hall...
5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department from using face recognition. About two dozen other US cities...
AI Tools Are Still Generating Misleading Election Images
Despite years of evidence to the contrary, many Republicans still believe that President Joe Biden’s win in 2020 was illegitimate. A number of election denying candidates won their primaries during...
The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image Generators
Whether through the frowning high-definition face of a chimpanzee or a psychedelic, pink-and-red-hued doppelganger of himself, Reuven Cohen uses AI-generated images to catch people’s attention. “I’ve always been interested in...
Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait
Google is taking action against algorithmically-generated spam. The search engine giant just announced upcoming changes, including a revamped spam policy, designed to keep AI clickbait out of its search results....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Microsoft-Powered Chatbot Just Disappeared
Those concerns are part of the reason OpenAI said in January that it would ban people from using its technology to create chatbots that mimic political candidates or provide false...
What Is OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus? Here’s What You Should Know
In this scenario, do you still pull the lever and sacrifice the person with the higher Ethical Score to save the five people with lower scores? Or do you allow...
