AI Agents Promise to Connect the Dots Between Reality and Sci-Fi
If you tuned in for Google I/O, OpenAI’s Spring Update, or Microsoft Build this month, you probably heard the term AI agents come up quite a lot in the last …
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Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning: What’s the Difference?
Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be confusing. Two of the most important fields in AI development are “machine …
‘Rat Dck’ Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal
This week, the scientific journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators. Like It or …
AI Models Are Eager To Launch Nuclear Bombs In War Simulations
The U.S. military is considering the use of AI during warfare but researchers warn this may not be a good idea given AI’s predilection for nuclear war. In a series …
In 2024, AI Will Spark an Indie Video Game Renaissance (and Nightmare)
More people are making video games than ever before, but most games are still designed by teams of professionals. There’s a barrier of technical skills that keeps the average person …
The New York Times Asks Court to Destroy ChatGPT
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, asking that ChatGPT be destroyed, along with any other large language models and training sets that have …
Microsoft’s Github Copilot is Losing Huge Amounts of Money
Photo: jamesonwu1972 (Shutterstock) Silicon Valley has bet big on generative AI but it’s not totally clear whether that bet will pay off. A new report from the Wall Street Journal …
The Hollywood Writer’s Strike May Have Ended But the Battle Over AI is Far From Over
Headlines This Week OpenAI rolled out a number of big updates to ChatGPT this week. Those updates include “eyes, ears, and a voice” (i.e., the chatbot now boasts image recognition, …
Google Search AI Gives Ridiculous, Wrong Answers
Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google …
Fiction Analytics Site Prosecraft Shut Down After Backlash
Prosecraft.io, a site that used novels to help power a data-driven project to display word count, passive voice, and other much more subjective, writing-style markers such as vividness, shut down …