All the Ways AI Could Suck in 2024
Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing (Getty Images) As 2024 begins, there has been plenty of speculation about what lies ahead for artificial intelligence. AI was the hottest industry in the world last…
The Dumbest AI Moments of 2023
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) By now you’ve probably heard that ChatGPT has a penchant for making up lies and stating them as fact, or what experts refer to as an AI…
Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups ‘Benefiting Humanity’
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup…
OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs
Sam Altman needs developers to build useful tools with ChatGPT, but his company is pissing them off right now. Just before Christmas weekend, OpenAI emailed plugin developers, people building practical…
AI’s World-Ending Capabilities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Advertisement Text and image generators have decidedly gone mainstream music generators haven’t gotten as much attention. Microsoft hopes to change that. This week, the company partnered with AI startup Suno…
How to Check If Something Online Was Written by AI
Generative artificial intelligence is everywhere you look these days, including on the web: advanced predictive text bots such as ChatGPT can now spew out endless reams of text on every…
OpenAI’s New Board Members Are Now the Boss of Sam Altman (If They Want to Be)
OpenAI has a new Board of Directors following its November skirmish, but they can still overrule CEO Sam Altman on any decisions he makes, according to a set of guidelines…
Grok Gets Some Competition, ChatGPT Gets Depressed, and More of the Top AI News Stories This Week
Image: Maurice NORBERT (Shutterstock) What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of…
Ilya Sutskever’s Team at OpenAI Built Tools to Control a Superhuman AI
A new research paper out of OpenAI Thursday says a superhuman AI is coming, and the company is developing tools to ensure it doesn’t turn against humans. OpenAI’s Chief Scientist,…
It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week,…