AI Fatalism Won’t Help Us Deal With Its Actual Risks
Illustration: 80’s Child (Shutterstock) Can AI Help with Mental Health? Off English Over the past few months, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the global conversation as a result of the…
How Should an AI Explore the Moon?
Photo: University of Alberta Can AI Help with Mental Health? Off English Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred some leading voices in the field to call for a…
A New Class Action Lawsuit Adds to OpenAI’s Growing Legal Troubles
A new class action lawsuit accuses ChatGPT creator OpenAI of criminally scraping data from all over the internet, then using the stolen data to create its popular automated products. The…
Four Ways Criminals Could Use AI to Target More Victims
Illustration: Golden Dayz (Shutterstock) Can AI Help with Mental Health? Off English Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to…
This E-Bike With Built-In ChatGPT Is the Epitome of Overblown AI Hype
AI hype has officially reached “Metaverse” levels of incomprehensibility. Large language models are a wormhole sucking in any and all tech companies looking to promote long-existing products, and now e-bike…
Zoom’s Latest Feature Means There’s No Chance You Can Hide Your Face in Meetings
Zoom isn’t the same as it used to be. Without a wide-ranging pandemic keeping everybody at home, and with more companies demanding their workers slog to the office, the video…
I taught ChatGPT to teach me board games, and now I won’t ever go back
Teaching complex board games seems like the perfect task for ChatGPT. Being able to ask it specific questions is a whole lot easier than flipping through a rules manual or…
NY lawyers fined for using fake ChatGPT cases in legal brief
The clumsy use of ChatGPT has landed a New York City law firm with a $5,000 fine. Having heard so much about OpenAI’s impressive AI-powered chatbot, lawyer Steven Schwartz decided…
Opera Debuts ‘One’ Browser With Built-in Generative AI
This is Opera OneOpera One is part of a much broader effort to meet consumers’ changing needs online. The last major disruption to web browsing was the introduction of tabs…
Meta to Help People Craft More Zuck Deepfakes With ‘Voicebox’ AI
According to Meta, Voicebox can take an audio sample as short as two seconds long and then match that audio style for text-to-speech generation. If true, it’s more sophisticated than…