March 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. When employees at Meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be … Read More
March 24, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know. OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interacting with it … Read More
March 24, 2025
(New York Times) – Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist. I believe that whether you think A.G.I. will be great or terrible for humanity — … Read More
March 24, 2025
(Axios) – A new digital divide is growing between people who trust AI for emotional support and those who don’t. Why it matters: AI startups are pushing their tools not just as enterprise productivity enhancers, but also as therapists, companions … Read More
March 24, 2025
(NPR) – Fewer than half of the claims in the top videos accurately match the scientific criteria that form an ADHD diagnosis. Many oversimplified or overstated the symptoms of ADHD and weren’t backed up by reliable sources. Many content creators … Read More
March 21, 2025
(UPI) – A team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., was set to connect two Parkinson’s patients to a new type of deep brain stimulation device, or “brain pacemaker,” developed by Medtronic Inc., on Friday in … Read More
March 21, 2025
(Wired) – The research-focused agent shows how a new generation of more capable AI models could automate some office tasks. Deep Research is available as part of all paid ChatGPT plans, although most users are capped at 10 queries per … Read More
March 20, 2025
(BBC) – A Norwegian man has filed a complaint after ChatGPT falsely told him he had killed two of his sons and been jailed for 21 years. Arve Hjalmar Holmen has contacted the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and demanded the … Read More
March 20, 2025
(Wired) – The company has partnered with Nvidia to develop “cognitive AI,” which it says will allow people with severe physical disabilities to have more natural interactions with the world around them. Neurotech company Synchron has unveiled the latest version … Read More
March 19, 2025
(The Cut) – For some young women, staring at their own faces online — in selfies, on social media, on video calls — has made them unrecognizable to themselves. (Read More)
March 19, 2025
(TechCrunch) – In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page … Read More
March 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Chatbots should be built with enough resilience to deal with difficult emotional situations, researchers said. Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its … Read More
March 18, 2025
(Wired) – Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view of the privacy concessions … Read More
March 18, 2025
(NBC News) – Artificial super intelligence, or ASI, is expected to arrive after artificial general intelligence and surpass human intelligence. Artificial intelligence that can match humans at any task is still some way off — but it’s only a matter … Read More
March 14, 2025
(The Conversation) – There is much debate about whether AI can augment human creativity, but emerging data suggests that the technology can boost research and development where creativity typically plays an important role. A recent study by MIT economics doctoral … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Wired) – Is work religion, or is religion work? Both. The hour-long discussion was part of a series of ticketed gatherings organized by ACTS 17 Collective, a nonprofit founded last year by Stephens’ wife, health care startup executive Michelle Stephens. … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Wired) – Google has developed an AI model that gives humanoids and other robots more intelligence—and a tool designed to give them a moral compass too. In a series of demonstration videos, the company showed several robots equipped with the … Read More
March 12, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – A new phase of the president and the Department of Government Efficiency’s attempts to downsize and remake the civil service is under way. The idea is simple: use generative AI to automate work that was previously … Read More
March 12, 2025
(Axios) – AI systems designed to predict the likelihood of a hospitalized patient dying largely aren’t detecting worsening health conditions, a new study found. Why it matters: Some machine learning models trained exclusively on existing patient data didn’t recognize about … Read More
March 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A Tennessee cancer clinic is beaming doctors out to rural areas, a new model of telehealth that goes beyond clunky videoconferencing systems Last year, some cancer patients in Tennessee and Mississippi got a startling offer: Instead … Read More
March 11, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The term is everywhere this week, but its meaning is as vague as ever. Working on a definition matters. The concept of artificial general intelligence—an ultra-powerful AI system we don’t have yet—can be thought of as … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Axios) – Just days after its announcement, a new AI agent named Manus is winning expert acclaim while stoking concern over another AI advance rooted in Chinese research and development. Driving the news: Manus AI, named after the Latin word … Read More
March 10, 2025
(The Verge) – ChatGPT has a trolley problem problem. ChatGPT’s ethics framework, which is probably the most extensive outline of a commercial chatbot’s moral vantage point, was bad for my blood pressure. First of all, lip service to nuance aside, … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Wired) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has filed applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to exclusively own the names Telepathy, Telekinesis, and others for future products. Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, is developing … Read More
March 7, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI … Read More
