In a very telling interview at Davos earlier this year, Bill Gates spelled out who AI is meant to help: “It is so dramatic how it improves white collar productivity. And later, with the robotics — not yet — but
Author: Mike Pearl
Alibaba’s AI video generator just dunked on Sora by making the Sora lady sing
Alibaba wants you to compare its new AI video generator to OpenAI’s Sora. Otherwise, why use it to make Sora’s most famous creation belt out a Dua Lipa song? On Tuesday, an organization called the “Institute for Intelligent Computing” within
AI ‘writers’ are mostly worthless right now. But that won’t last.
Will AI applications ever “replace” writers? It’s a question to take seriously right now. With media companies like Vice shuttering last week, and mass layoffs at august publications like the Los Angeles Times last month, it feels like a vulnerable
How the AI boom is informed by the Industrial Revolution
The artificially intelligent “agents” promised by tech titans like Sam Altman seem destined to replace workers, but they also sound incredibly useful. It sounds like a hi-tech dilemma, but it’s one that harkens back to the earliest days of job
Google announces Gemini 1.5, a flashy upgrade to its flagship AI model
Google has just announced (but not released) Gemini 1.5, an update to its flagship language model — the model used in the chatbot once known as Bard, but synergistically renamed Gemini a week ago. The big claim with this release
Arc Search’s AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
Warning: This article touches on disturbing topics including violent crime and suicide. Users of AI products have been known to expend tons of effort finding and exploiting loopholes that allow them to generate disturbing content. But there weren’t any loopholes
Survey: AI experts’ minds were blown by last year’s pace of AI development
It’s not just your imagination. AI researchers themselves are having their minds blown by the sheer pace of AI development, too, a new survey has found. A wide-ranging survey of AI experts released this week backs up the perception that
Here are 2024’s public domain works, and how you can use them
Jan. 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day in the United States — the day a bunch of artwork from the past evolves into its final form: public property. Art that’s out of copyright exists for all of us to sequel-ize,