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Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers...
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In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Was Overwhelmed.
Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how...
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Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t...
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A.I.-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t...
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Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes
Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated...
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Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology,...
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Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China,...
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Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their...
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A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now,...
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Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from...
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This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until...
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Now Hiring: Sophisticated (but Part-Time) Chatbot Tutors
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.
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Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and...
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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law...
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What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to...
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Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology....
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Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? +A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper
“I’ve always said if you have a ChatGPT subscription and a hose, you can get very...
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George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast
The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I....
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An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools...
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How One Tech Skeptic Decided AI Might Benefit the Middle Class
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past...
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OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as...
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Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and...
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Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to Its Stake in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic
The latest investment brings Amazon’s total stake in the San Francisco company to $4 billion.
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A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of...