Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI
In the early 20th century, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung came up with the concept of the shadow—the human personality’s darker, repressed side, which can burst out in unexpected ways. Surprisingly,...
Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of human tasks, including opening...
AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’
Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world. Source
Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to Be Bored
Here’s the thing about podcasts: There are too many of them. More than 4 million, to be precise, according to the database Podcast Index. In the past three days alone, nearly...
Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers | WIRED
The excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the queue that snaked its way around the University College London building ahead of his speech on...
Generative AI Systems Aren’t Just Open or Closed Source
Recently, a leaked document, allegedly from Google, claimed that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI. The leak brought to the fore ongoing conversations in the AI community about how...
Why Fake Drake and AI-Generated Music Are Here to Stay
Gideon: OK. Lauren: It’s time for a pop quiz. Gideon: Oh no. Lauren: So you are the editor in chief here at WIRED, and you’ve been talking a lot about...
Does AI Have a Subconscious?
“There’s been a lot of speculation recently about the possibility of AI consciousness or self-awareness. But I wonder: Does AI have a subconscious?” —Psychobabble Dear Psychobabble, Sometime in the early...
Google Will Soon Show You AI-Generated Ads
Google has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays, and swap out overcast skies for sunshine in otherwise perfect family...
