The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code
In June 2021, GitHub announced Copilot, a kind of auto-complete for computer code powered by OpenAI’s text-generation technology. It provided an early glimpse of the impressive...
Reddit Is Already on the Rebound
Social media researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, got a rude awakening early last month. They were roused by 6:30 am...
Instagram Is Removing Sex-Positive Accounts Without Warning
On the morning of June 22, Karl Verboten tried to log into the Instagram account for Klub Verboten, his London kink space and fortnightly party, but...
Wagner Mutiny Puts Russia’s Military Bloggers on a Razor’s Edge
On other parts of the app, silence spread through normally vocal accounts. That applied to more conventional propagandists, such as Margarita Simonyan, editor of state TV...
Elon Musk Seeks Support Against Rules on Free Speech Online
When Elon Musk arrived at VivaTech, a leading technology conference in France, his presence had an immediate effect, as event founder Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe...
How to Tackle AI—and Cheating—in the Classroom
This past spring, as I closed out my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I’d never before felt at the end of a school...
Love That Song? Buy Shares in It
In May 2006, Stockholm was the unlikely front line in the fight for the future of the music industry. The city’s police raided Swedish-owned file-sharing site...
Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI
A year ago, the idea of holding a meaningful conversation with a computer was the stuff of science fiction. But since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched last November,...
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT
In 2014, DeepMind was acquired by Google after demonstrating striking results from software that used reinforcement learning to master simple video games. Over the next several...
The US Senate Wants to Rein In AI. Good Luck With That
While negotiations started with Young and Schumer, they didn’t end there. Rather, the pair heard input from other congressional committees and worked that into the final...