The New Minstrels Are Here
AI-generated video and images are ushering in an ungovernable reality—where the remixing of stereotypes is not only accepted, but big business. Source
This Startup Wants to Give Farmers a Closer Look at Crops—From Space
Aspia Space is joining the ranks of companies and space agencies working on remote sensing, tracking the physical attributes of things on the ground by using sensors on satellites. The...
AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
The White House has struck a deal with major AI developers—including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—that commits them to take action to prevent harmful AI models from being released...
Don’t Ask Dumb Robots If AI Will Destroy Humanity
Hanson and I talked about the idea of adding real intelligence to these evocative machines. Ben Goertzel, a well-known AI researcher and the CEO of SingularityNET, leads an effort to...
Elon Musk’s Grand xAI Plans
Elon Musk is back in the news again. (Really, does he ever leave the news?) Last week, Musk announced a new artificial intelligence venture called xAI. The timing of the...
A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys | WIRED
Instead that slogan says less about what the company does and more about why it’s doing it. Helsing’s job adverts brim with idealism, calling for people with a conviction that...
To Save Itself, Hollywood Must Build Its Own ChatGPT
Now, generative AI is the potential kill shot, the one that could cause copyright owners to surrender their library of scripts, created over decades, in exchange for promised benefits that...
Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People—Not Machines
And it’s working. Aron Levitz, president of media and publishing platform Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, says access to that kind of data has empowered the platform’s writers and artists. “As a...
How to Use Generative AI Tools While Still Protecting Your Privacy | WIRED
The explosion of consumer-facing tools that offer generative AI has created plenty of debate: These tools promise to transform the ways in which we live and work while also raising...
