Moving generative AI into production
Generative AI has taken off. Since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, businesses have flocked to large language models (LLMs) and generative AI models looking for solutions to their...
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman may flee US after Trump victory
Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn and a Democratic Party mega-donor, is reportedly so distraught over President-elect Donald Trump’s victory that he has considered leaving the country. Hoffman, who...
This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos
Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study...
A vision for U.S. science success
White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar expressed confidence in U.S. science and technology capacities during a talk on Wednesday about major issues the country must tackle. “Let me start with...
We need to start wrestling with the ethics of AI agents
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. Generative AI models have become remarkably good at conversing with...
Embarrassed Spotify users are hacking their ‘Wrapped’ results
The countdown is on to expose your most humiliating music search history. Spotify Wrapped is drooping soon and some music lovers are rigging their results so they can show off...
How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter
In 2025, entrepreneurs will unleash a flood of AI-powered apps. Finally, generative AI will deliver on the hype with a new crop of affordable consumer and business apps. This is...
A data designer driven to collaborate with communities
It is fairly common in public discourse for someone to announce, “I brought data to this discussion,” thus casting their own conclusions as empirical and rational. It is less common...
The way we measure progress in AI is terrible
Every time a new AI model is released, it’s typically touted as acing its performance against a series of benchmarks. OpenAI’s GPT-4o, for example, was launched in May with a...
