Artificial Intelligence

2024-04-20: The source of the 'AI experts think there's a 10% chance that AI will destroy humanity' statistic

2024-04-06: The definition of Botshit

2024-03-22: ChatGPT remembers

2024-03-13: Figure is putting ChatGPT brains into humanoid bodies

2024-03-07: The day Replika lobotomised everyone's AI girlfriend

2024-02-18: Air Canada instructed to honour a refund that their chatbot inadvertently promised

2024-01-30: Cory Doctorow reminds us that AI doesn’t actually have to be better than us at our jobs in …

2024-01-18: NewsGuard identifies 634 entire websites full of generative-AI-created content farm nonsense

2024-01-15: Amazon appears to be selling OpenAI apologies disguised as chairs

2024-01-09: Elsewhere, I wrote about the ongoing battle between between human creators and AI trainers.

2024-01-03: From CNBC: Google is considering a substantial workforce reduction, potentially affecting up to …

2023-12-29: Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT and its ilk are finding their way into providing direct customer service for …

2023-12-29: Some books about Artificial Intelligence I'd like to read

2023-12-21: The Word of the Year 2023 winners are in

2023-12-12: Elon Musk tried to create a ‘politically neutral’ - also known as ‘politically …

2023-12-05: The last of the big tech giants recently released its version of a large language model generative …

2023-11-26: In 2019 OpenAI was too scared to open GPT-2 to the world

2023-11-18: Sam Altman, the famed head of OpenAI seems to have been fired. Mr. Altman’s departure follows …

2023-11-12: The deleterious effects of bad business models, incentives and AI on music streaming services

2023-10-21: 🎙️ Listening to The Ezra Klein Show podcast episode “Why A.I.

2023-07-24: WormGPT is an AI chatbot designed to help commit crime

2023-07-20: Terrible AI-written books hit the Kindle Unlimited best-seller lists

2023-07-18: Following some big companies such as Samsung banning or putting limits on their employees' use of …

2023-07-14: The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT et al, in order to …

2023-06-07: Noticed a couple of newish ChatGPT features. Firstly there’s an official iOS app, available …