How Humanity Can Avoid an AI Takeover
We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn’t necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology. Source
CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Pushed Back
In November, venerable tech outlet CNET began publishing articles generated by artificial intelligence, on topics such as personal finance, that proved to be riddled with errors. Today the human members of...
Unfair Automated Hiring Systems Are Everywhere
Earlier this month, Lina Khan, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), wrote an essay in The New York Times affirming the agency’s commitment to regulating AI. But there was...
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...
