America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch
The lawmakers’ letter also claims that NIST is being rushed to define standards even though research into testing AI systems is at an early stage. As a result there is...
Journalists Had ‘No Idea’ About OpenAI’s Deal to Use Their Stories
Some writer advocacy groups have pushed for this kind of licensing as an alternative to data scraping. The Author’s Guild, for example, is currently agitating for collective licensing agreements to...
In the Age of AI, ‘Her’ Is a Fairy Tale
When Spike Jonze’s Her came out in 2013, the film about a lonely man falling for an artificially intelligent operating system won widespread praise. Watching today, the qualities critics celebrated...
OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
OpenAI was founded on a promise to build artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity—even when that AI becomes considerably smarter than its creators. Since the debut of ChatGPT last...
My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot
Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence was in actual fact a bit of a snowflake. Grok, built...
Europe to End Robo-Firing in Major Gig Economy Overhaul
Platform workers can no longer be fired automatically by algorithms, according to new European Union rules agreed today in a sweeping reform of the gig economy that will affect Uber...
The EU Just Agreed Sweeping New Rules for AI
The European Union today agreed on the details of the AI Act, a far-reaching set of rules for the people building and using artificial intelligence. It’s a milestone law that,...
Google’s NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant
Steven Johnson has written 13 books, on topics ranging from a London cholera outbreak to the value of video games. He’s been a television presenter and a podcast host. He’s...
Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom
The history of artificial intelligence has been punctuated by periods of so-called “AI winter,” when the technology seemed to meet a dead end and funding dried up. Each one has...
