AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do
Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world to potential dangers ignited...
Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer
Demos of AI agents can seem stunning, but getting the technology to perform reliably and without annoying (or costly) errors in real life can be a challenge. Current models can...
Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door
While the biometric-scanning Orb and the World network have their roots in crypto tokens, “crypto” wasn’t an oft-mentioned word during the event. Instead, Altman and Blania emphasized World’s blockchain service,...
‘Piece by Piece’ Director Morgan Neville Will Never Use AI Again
Would adding that bit have opened up a can of worms? You kind of can’t just glance over Michael Jackson. I mean everybody from Beyoncé to Kanye [West], even though...
The AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research
Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this...
The Roli Airwave Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a Digital Theremin
“I was hitting a wall with Lumi,” Lamb says. “It’s great to learn, but we found that people just weren’t progressing enough.” Lamb envisions the Airwave as being a much...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas
Although both writing and coding modes give the choice of requesting in-line edits, the bifurcated user interface for canvas is designed with one additional set of shortcuts for those focused...
Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit
You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without permission, harbor...
This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data
So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing startup called Calliope Networks...
