They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI
The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some...
An Eating Disorder Chatbot Is Suspended for Giving Harmful Advice
Tessa is provided by the health tech company X2AI, now known as Cass, which was founded by entrepreneur Michiel Rauws and offers mental health counseling through texting....
This AI Scouting Platform Puts Soccer Talent Spotters Everywhere
It was the biggest match of Andre Odeku’s career. A week earlier, the 18-year-old forward had been playing in the seventh tier of the English soccer...
ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution
In a separate dialog, when queried in English, Bing chat correctly identified Thailand as the rumored location for the next setting of the TV show White Lotus,...
Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn
Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, compared the current moment of concern about AI to the debate among scientists sparked by the creation...
For Some Autistic People, ChatGPT Is a Lifeline
Autism affects people in many different ways and individuals can have varying needs. ChatGPT may not work for some or even most, but a common feature...
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...
AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’
These problems come from the top. Machine learning research is overwhelmingly male and white, a demographic world away from the diverse communities it purports to help....
Here Comes the Bride, With AI-Generated Wedding Vows
As the height of wedding season approaches, some people are turning to artificial intelligence for help with their hitches. Yes, ChatGPT can spin those unremarkable wedding vows...
How ChatGPT and Other LLMs Work—and Where They Could Go Next
AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard are certainly having a moment—the next generation of conversational software tools promise to do everything from taking over...