February 11, 2025
(New York Times) – At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini. World leaders, tech moguls and assorted hangers-on (including yours truly) are gathered in Paris … Read More
February 11, 2025
(BBC) – Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked … Read More
February 10, 2025
(404 Media) – Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use. A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their … Read More
February 10, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Allstate is discovering soul-less generative AI models, made up of entirely data and code, are more empathetic than a lot of its human representatives. The insurer said that during the often frustrating back and forth between customers … Read More
February 7, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Tech giants projected tens of billions of dollars in increased investment this year and sent a stark message about their plans for AI: We’re just getting started. The four biggest spenders on the data centers that … Read More
February 6, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Lawmakers plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would ban DeepSeek’s chatbot application from government-owned devices, over new security concerns that the app could provide user information to the Chinese government. The legislation written by Reps. … Read More
February 5, 2025
(Financial Times) – It seems even AI companies are now exhausted by all the generic AI slop making its way into job applications. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI chatbot, has an “AI policy” for applicants filling in its … Read More
February 5, 2025
(TechCrunch) – “Very roughly, it feels to me like — this is not scientifically accurate, this is just a vibe or spiritual answer — every year we move one standard deviation of IQ,” Altman said. Altman isn’t the first to … Read More
February 5, 2025
(Quanta) – “It’s really hard for humans to understand biological sequence,” said the computer scientist Brian Hie, who heads the Laboratory of Evolutionary Design at Stanford University, based at the nonprofit Arc Institute. This was the impetus behind his new … Read More
February 5, 2025
(Wired) – Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled. Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how … Read More
February 5, 2025
(Wired) – Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022, hackers and security researchers have tried to find holes in large language models (LLMs) to get around their guardrails and trick them into spewing out hate speech, bomb-making … Read More
February 5, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
February 4, 2025
(Nature) – Despite strong interest in using artificial intelligence to make research faster, easier and more accessible, researchers say they need more support to navigate its possibilities. The survey asked researchers how they are currently using generative AI tools — … Read More
February 4, 2025
(New York Times) – Lembke is a psychiatrist who works at Stanford University’s Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, where she sees patients dealing with all sorts of addictions, from opioids and alcohol to what she calls “digital drugs” that, she … Read More
February 3, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – At a gathering there, Huang told customers and employees of his strong commitment to the Chinese market, according to a recording. That meant Nvidia intended to keep selling chips for artificial intelligence in China, holding back … Read More
February 3, 2025
(New York Times) – The rapid rise in artificial intelligence has created intense discussions in many industries over what kind of role these tools can and should play — and health care has been no exception. The medical community largely … Read More
February 3, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Is it possible to get an AI to achieve a human-like understanding of language? A team of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology built a brain-inspired AI model comprising multiple neural networks. The AI … Read More
February 3, 2025
(Vox) – The people turning to generative AI for their most sensitive messages. Users found AI helpful when writing emails and recommendation letters, and even to spruce up responses on dating apps, as the number of chatbots available for experimentation … Read More
February 3, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
January 30, 2025
(Gizmodo) – The Authors Guild, one of the largest associations of writers in America, is launching a new project to certify books that have been written by a human rather than a machine. The new “Human Authored” certification will help … Read More
January 30, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Chinese tech company DeepSeek has disrupted the AI world by releasing a top-notch artificial-intelligence model that offers provocative answers—although maybe not to questions about China. We put its chatbot to the test in New York on … Read More
January 29, 2025
(Wired) – The Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek has had a meteoric rise this week, stoking rivalries and generating market pressure for United States–based AI companies, which in turn has invited scrutiny of the service. Amid the hype, researchers … Read More
January 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Silicon Valley-based company says Chinese entities have tried to exfiltrate data from its tools OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models. A spokesperson … Read More
January 29, 2025
(The Telegraph) – DeepSeek’s Sputnik moment has debunked overblown projections of a data centre boom One of the abiding truths about technological innovation is that what starts off as clunky and barely worth the time and effort required to use … Read More
January 28, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Just a week in, the AI sector has already seen its first battle of wits under the new Trump administration. The clash stems from two key pieces of news: the announcement of the Stargate project, which … Read More
