IBM Pauses Hiring to Onboard AI Instead
IBM decided to announce layoffs in January that would effect 3,900 positions—or roughly 1.5% of the company’s staff at that time.Image: Laborant (Shutterstock) I have no mouth and I must…
We Need a Consumer-First Approach to A.I.
A.I. marketing is at a fever pitch, promising that this new wave of generative AI tools, powered by large language models, can help us do everything from navigating legal contracts…
AI Will Make Our Society Even More Unequal, Economists Warn
Photo: Ascannio (Shutterstock) Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future Tech Off English On November 30 2022, OpenAI launched the AI chatbot ChatGPT, making the latest generation of AI technologies…
Call Me ‘DeepBrain’: Google Smushes DeepMind and Brain AI Teams Together
Talk about a meeting of the minds. In another bid to add some NOx to its sputtering AI development, Google announced late Thursday that it plans to combine its two…
Military Tech Execs Tell Congress an AI Pause Is ‘Close to Impossible’
Military tech executives and experts speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday said growing calls for a “pause” on new artificial intelligence systems were misguided and seemed “close to…
The Makers of Stable Diffusion Now Have Their Own AI Language Model
It seems like everybody and their mother has a large language model these days. Stability AI, one of the companies that made a name for itself early in the AI…
Chinese Satellite Goes on Inexplicable Sightseeing Tour After Researchers Put AI in Control
There’s been plenty of conversation around using AI in writing and art, but researchers in China have evidently brought machine intelligence to spaceflight. An AI was allowed to control a…
Stability AI’s New ‘XL’ Is a Super Powered Deepfake Generator for Businesses
As more companies realize it costs quite a bit to create generative AI content, we may be coming to the end of free, open source AI models. One of the…
19 Things ChatGPT Can and Can’t Do
Photo: Bryan Pollard (Shutterstock) In December, a Furman University professor, Darren Hick, caught a student using ChatGPT to write a final paper on a philosophical paradox. Hick failed the student…
Please Listen to Edgelord Patrick Bateman and 6 Other Bizarre AI-Generated Voices
Photo: YouTube Artificial intelligence is one of the buzziest terms in the tech industry right now and, while surely a lot of that buzz is just pure hype, one place…