Toyota’s Robots Are Learning to Do Housework—By Copying Humans
As someone who quite enjoys the Zen of tidying up, I was only too happy to grab a dustpan and brush and sweep up some beans spilled on a tabletop...
Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data
Do AI companies need to pay for the training data that powers their generative AI systems? The question is hotly contested in Silicon Valley and in a wave of lawsuits...
OpenAI’s New App Store Could Turn ChatGPT Into an Everything App
ChatGPT also functions as a kind of translator or helper for GPT apps. When WIRED asked the AllTrails GPT to suggest a two-hour hike in Berkeley, California, ChatGPT responded by...
Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment
Rose-tinted predictions for artificial intelligence’s grand achievements will be swept aside by underwhelming performance and dangerous results. Source
Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
When AI researcher Melanie Mitchell published Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans in 2019, she set out to clarify AI’s impact. A few years later, ChatGPT set off a...
Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date
The R1 costs $199, though you’ll have to factor in the cost of a monthly cellular connectivity bill too, and you have to set that up yourself. Preorders start today...
It’s No Wonder People Are Getting Emotionally Attached to Chatbots
Replika, an AI chatbot companion, has millions of users worldwide, many of whom woke up earlier last year to discover their virtual lover had friend-zoned them overnight. The company had...
The Battle for Biometric Privacy
In 2024, increased adoption of biometric surveillance systems, such as the use of AI-powered facial recognition in public places and access to government services, will spur biometric identity theft and...
Synthetic Data Is a Dangerous Teacher
In April 2022, when Dall-E, a text-to-image visio-linguistic model, was released, it purportedly attracted over a million users within the first three months. This was followed by ChatGPT, in January...
