The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed
Sudowrite is intended to be used as a writer’s assistant; authors plug in sentences that are giving them trouble, or scenes they’re working on, and the AI offers up a...
More Penguins Than Europeans Can Use Google Bard | WIRED
The bloc’s omission hints at the larger power struggle between regulators and Big Tech in Europe. At a minimum, the search giant needs more time to compare Bard with the...
How to Reclaim Your Online Privacy
Lauren Goode: From what I know about Meredith, she’s well qualified to have this conversation. She spent a lot of time at Google, which is a place that relies very...
Google I/O 2023: Google Adds Generative AI to Search
Six months ago, Google didn’t appear remotely worried about its search business. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was unleashed, and Microsoft’s Bing spawned a chatbot. At Google’s annual I/O conference today, the search giant...
Google Is Racing to Bring More AI to Android
In the days leading up to its annual software conference, Google executives were unusually excited about … wallpaper. Phone wallpaper. Wallpaper that changes and breathes and undulates on Android phones,...
Everything Google Announced at I/O 2023
The opening keynote address of the Google I/O developer conference today was stuffed with announcements of new devices and AI-powered features coming to familiar software tools. The company leaned hard...
The Surprising Synergy Between Acupuncture and AI
I used to fall asleep at night with needles in my face. One needle shallowly planted in the inner corners of each eyebrow, one per temple, one in the middle...
Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It
If a song is created by artificial intelligence and listened to by a bot, was it even heard at all? It’s a problem music-streaming companies now face as generative AI is...
The Boring Future of Generative AI
This week, at its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Google showcased a head-spinning number of projects and products powered by or enhanced by AI. They included a new-and-improved version...
