Mike Pearl

Hands-on with the Claude AI app: It’s pleasant to use, but janky

Anthropic's Claude is arguably the best consumer-facing large language model at the moment, with its top-tier version having bested OpenAI's…

4 days ago

Why don’t we have AI-powered robot butlers yet? An investigation.

In a very telling interview at Davos earlier this year, Bill Gates spelled out who AI is meant to help:…

1 month ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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,…

4 months ago