Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool
Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI...
Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
“They will learn from the workflow in which they’re engaged,” Autor says. “Often people will be in the process of working with a tool, and the tool will be learning...
Why Tech Bros and Politicians Can’t Really Connect
Every few months we get to see a tech dude offer excruciating testimony to grumpy members of Congress. The tech dude tries, with varying degrees of arrogance, to explain his...
The ChatGPT App Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that unleashed ChatGPT on the world last November, is making the chatbot app a lot more chatty. An upgrade to the ChatGPT mobile apps for...
How ChatGPT Can Help You Do More With PDFs
If your PDFs aren’t hosted online, then AskYourPDF can upload them for you, and you can then submit queries through ChatGPT. You can ask for specific details from specific sections,...
Smarter AI Assistants Could Make It Harder to Stay Human
Researchers and futurists have been talking for decades about the day when intelligent software agents will act as personal assistants, tutors, and advisers. Apple produced its famous Knowledge Navigator video...
Enough Talk, ChatGPT—My New Chatbot Friend Can Get Things Done
I recently needed to contact the CEO of a startup called Lindy, a company developing personal assistants powered by artificial intelligence. Instead of looking for it myself, I turned to...
Alexa Just Got an AI Makeover
Alexa was due for an upgrade, and now it has gotten one. This week, Amazon held its annual media event where it debuted a slate of new hardware, software, and...
Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
A thought experiment occurred to me at some point, a way to disentangle AI’s creative potential from its commercial potential: What if a band of diverse, anti-capitalist writers and developers...
