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...
Meet ChatGPT’s Right-Wing Alter Ego
Elon Musk caused a stir last week when he told the (recently fired) right-wing provocateur Tucker Carlson that he plans to build “TruthGPT,” a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT....
6 Tips for Using ChatGPT to Brainstorm Better
LinkedIn influencers use ChatGPT as a brainstorming aid, should you? OpenAI’s chatbot responds in a conversational tone to text prompts, and millions of users continue to experiment...
Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election
Some deepfakes of political figures have emerged in recent years, such as one of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his troops to surrender that was released last...
Noah Raford Can Help You Prepare for a Not-So-Nice Future
Archival audioclip (Back to the Future): I’m from the future. Lauren Goode: Alright, I’m gonna ask the question that everyone’s wondering about: What is a futurist? Is this a...
How Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Came to Be—and Where It’s Going Next
Jordi Ribas hasn’t taken a day off since last September. That month, the Microsoft search and AI chief got the keys to GPT-4, a then secret version...
ChatGPT Can Help Doctors—and Hurt Patients
“Medical knowledge and practices change and evolve over time, and there’s no telling where in the timeline of medicine ChatGPT pulls its information from when stating...