Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China
Artificial Intelligence
2025-04-23
2025-04-15
OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety report: Self-regulation doesn’t work shocker.
2025-04-05
Has the Trump administration used AI to calculate tariffs?: Well, probably , but either way their claims as to other countries' tariffs on the US are absolutely ridiculous.
2025-04-02
We have to talk about AI “art”: It’s a difficult moment in time for moderators of communities which have strong feelings about AI.
2025-03-29
2025-03-15: AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead. Uh-oh, either …
2025-03-14: Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice. …
2025-03-10: OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’ …
2025-02-26: Deezer receives 10k AI-generated music tracks per day, artists aren't happy
2025-02-26
2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation
2025-02-12
Is it okay?: Robin Sloan considers the ethics of generative AI models needing to slurp up the entirety of the internet to exist.
2025-02-07
Is OpenAI’s Operator, a new AI ‘agent,’ ready to help in the real world?: A reporter’s very expensive AI inadvertently buys them very expensive eggs.
2025-02-03
A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study: The 100% AI-written psychology essays weren’t detected as such by the graders, and they typically scored higher than the human ones.
2025-02-02
DeepSeek Fails Researchers' Safety Tests: The hot new AI bot appears to be up for discussing pretty much anything, irrespective of harm.
2025-02-01: 📺 Watched Grieving Mother: AI was the Stranger in my Home.
2025-01-28
‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot: Open-source chatbot DeepSeek can apparently do more AI with less resources.
2025-01-24: Trumpian legislation via LLMs (we should be so lucky)
2025-01-24
Pope warns Davos summit that AI could worsen ‘crisis of truth’: He was the subject of one of the more famous early deepfakes to be fair.
2025-01-08: What we learned about LLMs in 2024
2024-12-18: Noticed that Mimo, one of the ‘Duolingo but for coding’ educational apps I sometimes …
2024-12-15
AI’s Walking Dog: ‘AI itself has much to offer, but it has not lived up to its potential to serve the public good, and the context of AI’s development explains why’
2024-12-14
The Race For the Best Stock Footage: Joe’s (skeptical) thoughts on the utility of AI video generators.
2024-12-10
Artificial Irony: Misinformation Expert’s Testimony Has Fake Citations: Via unchecked ChatGPT usage.