Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees
Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness and great regret,”...
To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices
At some point in the future, AIs may create works of art, music, and writing that rival human-created ones. For now, what’s most impressive about most...
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of friends, the places you go. This...
Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some...
OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills
OpenAI today announced an improved version of its most capable artificial intelligence model to date—one that takes even more time to deliberate over questions—just a day...
I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping
In its initial responses, ChatGPT didn’t provide any links to products. But it easily supplied them when I asked, and while I didn’t click on every...
Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness
Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of OpenAI’s service ChatGPT. One hundred million people started using it, practically overnight....
Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright...
Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality
It’s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored within the relatively benign realm of artistic expression. That...
The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto
Truth Terminal “has birthed an entire sector that’s red-hot: the AI agent–memecoin sector,” says Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto wealth management firm,...