Can ChatGPT Host a Christian Sermon? Apparently, It Can.
Advertisement This isn’t the first time humankind, in all its hubris, has tried to mix AI and religion. Notorious ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski who was at the center of a…
How AI Could Take Over Elections—And Undermine Democracy
How reinforcement learning works. Third, over the course of a campaign, Clogger’s messages could evolve in order to take into account your responses to the machine’s prior dispatches and what…
Ancient Bird Bones May Have Been Fashioned Into Flutes for Catching More Birds
Sound produced by the Natufian aerophone from Eynan-Mallaha 12,000 years agoThe team acknowledged that there’s no guarantee that the perforated bones were necessarily blown, much less tools for hunting: “From…
What Is an AI ‘Black Box’?
Black box algorithms make it very difficult to understand how AIs work, but the situation isn’t quite black and white. Advertisement The opposite of a black box is sometimes referred…
Sudowrite Launches Novel-Writing AI Software for Pseudo-Writers
Founder James Yu did not respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment but said in a video posted on Twitter that the tool “allows authors to collaborate with AI … to…
I Created a Biased AI Algorithm 25 Years Ago—Tech Companies Are Still Making the Same Mistake.
AI researcher and artist Joy Buolamwini’s video poem ‘AI, Ain’t I a Woman?’ One suggested remedy for white privilege is to be actively anti-racist. For the 1998 head-tracking system, it…
Wendy’s Is Bringing a Google-Powered AI Chatbot to Its Drive-Thru
Wendy’s will unveil the AI chatbot at one of the company’s stores in Columbus, Ohio next month. Image: JHVEPhoto (Shutterstock) AI chatbots have come for journalism, and now they are…
Police in China Arrest Man for Allegedly Lying About a Train Crash Using ChatGPT
Chinese police arrested a man Sunday in what could be one of the first precedent-setting cases of a person using ultra-popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to allegedly spread misinformation. That, or…
ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 Per Hour
ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot, is powered by machine learning systems, but those systems are guided by human workers, many of whom aren’t paid particularly well. A new report…
AI Has a ‘Free Rider’ Problem
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea? Off English On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve…