Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
…You hired a human researcher and then replaced her with AI. And you were like, “This is pretty much as good and it’s much cheaper than my human researcher.” And then…
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Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
…in OpenAI’s startup fund, or about the release of certain tools or features like ChatGPT.) Other OpenAI executives and AI industry leaders made public statements in support of Altman. An online…
My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
…Social robots, AI companions as a tool to practice good relationship behaviors, AI in immersive gaming and entertainment content generation — all of these ideas have been explored before, though not quite in…
Why IBM’s CEO doesn’t think current AI tech can get to AGI
…There were all these shots at AI before, deep research being one of them. There were machine learning algorithms deployed broadly across the industry. Apple was talking about neural accelerators in the…
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks on AI, KPop Demon Hunters, and Harry Potter
…But now, with the advent of AI-enabled design tools, we can go in and do what used to take us two or three months in basically two or three weeks, sometimes…
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
…Thanks to the popularity of ChatGPT, Altman has emerged as the most visible figurehead of the AI industry, having turned a once nonprofit research lab into an almost trillion-dollar private company…
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…The musician, producer, and long-time Taylor Swift collaborator described people who use generative AI tools as “Godless whores” in a rant on Instagram : “To everyone who is gassed up about the…
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire?
…creators have even more openness to using AI tools to help them manage their business. The best quote we heard from our user research interviews was, “Hey, I have a million ideas…
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
…content suspected of being AI-generated or manipulated, found it difficult to keep up with the AI escalations they received. The increasingly widespread availability of AI tools accounts for part of…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
…Some people have suggested there should be something like a CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) for AI, some big high-energy physics lab in some big international lab that develops…