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Amazon Just Marked Down This Top-Rated A.I. Voice Recorder to Nearly 50% Off
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Video: What to Know About Trump’s Deal With A.I. Chipmakers
new video loaded: What to Know About Trump’s Deal With A.I. Chipmakers By Tripp Mickle, Karen Hanley, Jon Hazell and David Jouppi•August…
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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around…
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Rod Stewart Shows AI Images of Ozzy Osbourne In Heaven With Dead Music Icons During Concert Tribute
British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart caused a stir at his concert on Aug. 1, when he projected AI images of the late Ozzy Osbourne posing…
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Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?
When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to feel so tired that he…
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A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
There’s real reason for caution here, starting with the idea that interactions with A.I. can be treated as genuine relationships. Oliver…
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What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise?
If a recent crop of commercials touting the benefits of artificial intelligence is any indication, lots of Americans these days feel…
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were…
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Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood…
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What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just…
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Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life
Last Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it was acquiring a company called io, an artificial-intelligence-forward product-development firm…
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Two Paths for A.I.
Last spring, Daniel Kokotajlo, an A.I.-safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit his job in protest. He’d become convinced that the…
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Amazon Just Marked Down This A.I. Mouse & Voice Recorder to More Than 40% Off
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Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google…
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Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?
A couple of years ago, my wife bought my then four-year-old son a supercool set of wooden ramps, which could be combined with our…
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Trump Is the Emperor of A.I. Slop
On February 19th, Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social to congratulate himself on vanquishing congestion pricing in his home state.…
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Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns
In late 2023, Israel was aiming to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a top Hamas commander in the northern Gaza Strip who had helped plan the…
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Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?
The new essay collection “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age,” by Vauhini Vara, opens with a transcript. “If I paste some writing here,…
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Will A.I. Save the News?
I am a forty-five-year-old journalist who, for many years, didn’t read the news. In high school, I knew about events like the O. J.…
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The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
If asked to come up with a quintessentially “human” work of art, one could do worse than to name a film by Studio Ghibli. The Japanese…
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Are We Taking A.I. Seriously Enough?
My in-laws own a little two-bedroom beach bungalow. It’s part of a condo development that hasn’t changed much in fifty years. The units…
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Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
A mother is currently suing Character AI, a company that promotes “AIs that feel alive,” over the suicide of her fourteen-year-old son,…
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What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at…