German artist Boris Eldagsen says entry to Sony world photography awards was designed to provoke debate

How did trolling about ChatGPT become the new “learn to code”?

Recent moves establish important guidelines for how copyright applies to works created with artificial intelligence.

A German stock photographer tried to get his photos removed from the AI-training LAION dataset. Lawyers replied that he owes $979 for making an unjustified copyright claim.

The music industry has navigated the choppy waters of royalties and ownership well before AI-generated music gained buzz. And not just because of sampling.

"Suno’s training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet."

Synthetic images showing curiously handsome versions of Jesus Christ are flooding the internet.

Despite the growing profusion of AI image generators, they all had remarkably similar responses when The Post directed them to portray a beautiful woman.

Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.

It’s a common response to rebut concerns about generative AI, and you may land here if you’ve made that argument in a comment thread or social media.

The danger of accepting an industry's terms for itself

How AI innovation is powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries.

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

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Large language models are full of security vulnerabilities, yet they’re being embedded into tech products on a vast scale.

AI is not “some mysterious, magical, autonomous being,” one critic said.

Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.

How generative AI and AI art is affecting artists.

AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.

Study finds that while AI can be great, it also struggles due to training limitations

There’s blood in the water. Angry developers, users, and regulatory bodies are circling React and Single-Page-App web development, snapping big chunks out of their sides. The smell of blood just brings more and more critics.

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.

Some publications are already using text and image generators. Here's how WIRED will—and won't—use the technology.

The risks inherent in the technology, plus the speed of its take-up, demonstrate why it’s so vital that we keep track of it, writes the Guardian’s head of editorial innovation, Chris Moran

Notre charte déontologique vis-à-vis des IA génératives et des contenus synthétiques.

The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.

Concerns over implicit bias in machine-learning software raised important questions about how New York Times comment moderators can leverage this powerful tool, while also mitigating the risks.

Publishers are uncertain about the impact that AI-driven chatbots, like ChatGPT from OpenAI, have on the industry. While they may offer customized experiences and data-based insights, publishers acknowledge that this technology has limitations.

Please don’t embarrass us, robots.

Have you been curious to learn about the most valuable sports franchises in the world? Would you prefer this information to come in the form of a ranked list that is both disordered and incorrect? Are you easily spooked by the noise of a vacuum cleaner, or unfamiliar people walking by your house?

The eight papers bringing the suit are all owned by investment giant Alden Global Capital.

Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train its artificial intelligence tool without paying them.

The nontransparent nature of the licensing agreements could spell bad news for smaller newsrooms.

The Washington Post is launching a new AI chatbot called Climate Answers that answers questions about climate using the outlet’s archive of reporting.

Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

The publisher says the AI search startup stole its content without credit or compensation.

We reached out to longtime tech journalist and newsroom leader Julia Angwin for her thoughts on the future of AI and the news.

Publishers including The Atlantic are signing deals with the AI giant. Where does this lead?

Last year, Hoodline began filling its site with AI-generated articles, and Zachary Chen, chief executive of Hoodline parent company Impress3, defended the practice.

Awarded investigative stories are increasingly relying on machine learning, whether covering Chicago police negligence or Israeli weapons in Gaza

Generative AI like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 can be fun to play with. There's also the potential for this technology to be used as an information weapon.

The pope didn’t actually wear that great jacket, but a lot of people were ready to believe he did.

A really common misconception about ChatGPT is that it can access URLs. I’ve seen many different examples of people pasting in a URL and asking for a summary, or asking …

TL;DR ChatGPT claims we offer an API to turn a mobile phone number into the location of the phone. We do not.

The buzzy new AI tool can quickly create entire news organizations out of thin air. Should we be freaking out?

The way AI models structure text may have something to do with it, according to the study authors.

The evolution of persuasive technologies (PT) has reached a new frontier with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article explores AI’s power of hy

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

Today I used ChatGPT to get some help making a browser plugin. I posted my queries, then watched as the code and text spilled down the screen. This is the part of large language-models that I dig! As…

On average, a ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google search. In that difference lies a coming sea change in how the US, Europe, and the world at large will consume power — and how much that will cost. 

New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

The tech giant, which has seen its planet-warming emissions rise because of artificial intelligence, has stopped buying cheap offsets behind the neutrality claim. The company now aims to reach net-zero carbon by 2030.

Powering artificial intelligence models takes a lot of energy. A new analysis demonstrates just how big the problem could become

Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato

A global rush for the next wave of generative artificial intelligence is increasing public scrutiny on Big Tech's expanding water footprint.

An independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.

We are delighted to announce the public release of Stable Diffusion and the launch of DreamStudio Lite.

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API

Get your newsroom ready to incorporate technologies that include artificial intelligence to support and grow all aspects of your news operation.

As part of its ongoing efforts to help local newsrooms integrate automation and artificial intelligence technology, The Associated Press will tackle five AI projects stretching from Michigan to Puerto Rico.

Have you ever toyed with generative AI models like ChatGPT, GPT-3, or DALL-E and wondered whether they could actually help you do some newswork? The technology is poised to disrupt many aspects of…

Some publications are already using text and image generators. Here's how WIRED will—and won't—use the technology.

If we stay on the current trajectory, it's utterly plausible that AI language tools will begin to blend into our daily workflows, similar to how Google and Google Translate have.

When The New York Times paywall launched , its meter count was the same for all users. Since then, The Times has transformed into a data-driven digital company, and its paywall is now successfully using a causal machine learning model called the Dynamic Meter to set personalized meter limits, making for a smarter paywall.

To create a more comprehensive personalization algorithm, The New York Times built a machine-learning model that relates article text to reader-selected interests.

What if AI could scan the world for events and information and send an alert when something looked interesting? This could accelerate reporting and guide journalists’ limited attention in a world of…

Jeremy Gilbert, Director of Strategic Initiatives at The Washington Post, discusses the implementation artificial intelligence tools in the newsroom, allowing human journalists to put their time into more significant reporting.

Scattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis

The Future of Quizzing Has Arrived!

Decrypt launches a real-time feed of human and AI-generated breaking news summaries from around the web.

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That's a bit of a Reach

While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms. The result: increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers and mounting trouble for the platforms themselves.

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. But after learning about the ChatGPT artificial intelligence program, Schickler figured an opportunity had landed in his lap.

The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.

Moderator Note: This question being featured is still the best tool we have to announce this policy sitewide. However, people have been using this for protracted debate and discussion. As such, this

In which ChatGPT and I invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?

AI language models and chatbots show that AI can generate content cheaply but at a lower quality. These characteristics mean AI will remake the web as we know it — from Google Search to Wikipedia and more.

The biggestsuccess of AI in science so far is the AlphaFold 2 system. This is adeep learning system which has made large strides on a fundamentalscientific problem: how to predict the 3-dimensional structure of aprotein from the sequence of amino acids making up that protein. Thisbreakthrough has helped set off an ongoing deep learning revolution inmolecular biology. While obviously of interest to molecularbiologists, I believe this is of much broader interest for science asa whole, as a concrete prototype for how artificial intelligence mayimpact discovery. In this short survey talk I briefly discussquestions including: how can such systems be validated? Can they beused to identify general principles that human scientists can learnfrom? And what should we expect a good theory or explanation toprovide anyway? The focus of the talk is extant results and the nearterm, not the longer-term future. However, I hope it may help ingrounding an understanding of that longer-term future, and of thebenefits and risks of AI systems.

“It is sad that several of you are not understanding the potential of AI and open AI and as a consequence have decided to fight it."

ChatGPT's immense popularity and power make it eye-wateringly expensive to maintain, The Information reports, with OpenAI paying up to $700,000 a day.

Everything you need to know.

The industry has rushed head-long into AI, and stock market investors are following them. But a growing group of Wall Street analysts are skeptical profitability.

By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems.

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Artificial intelligence technology is undergirded by two intertwined forms of automation.

Company researchers explain what’s needed to emulate a great tutor.

When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.

Developers can now integrate ChatGPT and Whisper models into their apps and products through our API.

Though BuzzFeed has been incorporating Generative AI into its products for the last couple of years, the last three months have been exhilarating for anyone who operates in that space.

How do you avoid getting disrupted by AI & actually build AI products people will use? The AI Survival Curve will help find your AI product market fit.

As for Artifact's future, Systrom says he hopes it will become a place where users can go to discover content around their interests and be able to discuss them with others.

Today, we’re announcing new AI experiments, including an AI chatbot called Clyde, AutoMod AI, and Conversation Summaries, and launching an AI Incubator.

Learn how Shopify Data built new online inference capabilities into its Machine Learning Platform to deploy and serve models for real-time prediction at scale.

Raycast lets you control your tools with a few keystrokes. It's designed to keep you focused.,Unlock the power of AI on your Mac. Write smarter, code faster, and answer questions quicker

DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist, an AI-enhanced Instant Answer that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events.,

Netflix leverages machine learning to create the best media for our members. Earlier we shared the details of one of these algorithms, introduced how our platform team is evolving the media-specific…

Disclaimer: This article is not meant to provoke anxiety or exaggerate the power of GPT. It is merely my personal observation after using ChatGPT/GPT

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

Those building technology and infrastructure for synthetic media, creating synthetic media, and distributing or publishing synthetic media will seek to advance ethical and responsible behavior.

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A creature is formed of clay. A puppet becomes a boy. A monster rises in a lab. A computer takes over a spaceship. And all manner of robots serve or control us.

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

The Silicon Valley veteran says big tech can’t be trusted to regulate artificial intelligence by itself.

AI researcher Timnit Gebru explains why large language models like ChatGPT have inherent bias and calls for oversight in the tech industry.

A conversation with Arvind Narayanan

We welcome your feedback, questions, and suggestions. You can reach us at contact@fairmlbook.org. If you taught from the book, we’d love to hear about it.

ChatGPT gets access to website content to learn from it. This is how to block your content from becoming AI training data.

ChatGPT falsely claimed a mayor went to prison.

ChatGPT accused a law professor of harassment. But the evidence doesn’t exist.

Rep. Ritchie Torres' bill is the latest in a wave of new legislative efforts to regulate A

This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity

Student-led groups focused on AI Safety have popped up at Stanford University and other schools, backed by billionaires fixated on the AI apocalypse

The company says its Artificial Intelligence Platform will integrate AI into military decision making in a legal and ethical way.

Google boss says issue keeps him up at night, while thousands have urged six-month pause on creation of ‘giant’ AIs

Google is now the only search engine that offers results from Reddit. That’s bad for the public, and a troubling sign for the future of the open web, writes John Herrman.

How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification

A federal judge in California has rejected Workday's bid to dismiss a proposed class action claiming that the artificial intelligence-powered software the company uses to screen out job applicants for other businesses bakes in existing biases.

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

Training and running AI models emits a vast amount of carbon—but AI is also being used to boost fossil fuel extraction and generate climate misinformation

Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me.

Deepfake porn victims are speaking out about the lack of protections against abusers. A new bill could change things.

UK consumer finance champion Martin Lewis has warned over yet another scam ad bearing his likeness that's circulating on Facebook -- but this time it's a deepfake video...

A decades-old agreement that made the internet tick is no match for the rise of generative AI and large language models

In the last year, the number of websites specifically restricting OpenAI and other AI scraper bots has gone through the roof.

English is the internet’s primary tongue—a fact that may have unexpected consequences as generative AI becomes central to daily life.

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The web itself is being shoved into a great unknown.

Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

The moment we let artificial intelligence define what we are, we cede our last, most vital piece of turf.

Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.

Meet the people who have already lost their jobs to AI.

The well known chatbot is automated, but that automation is guided by low-paid human workers labelling data.

OpenAI's contractor workforce helps power ChatGPT through simple interactions. They don't get benefits, but some say the work is rewarding.

Scammers are using artificial intelligence to create fake pornographic videos of victims and demanding payment from them to not disseminate them, the FBI warned Monday.

You may have heard of simulation theory, the notion that nothing is real and we’re all part of a giant computer program.

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.

Generative AI has prompted the first video game industry strike since 2017

A WIRED investigation finds that major players like Activision Blizzard, which recently laid off scores of workers, are using generative AI for game development.

Ted Chiang on how artificial intelligence may strengthen capitalism by promising to concentrate wealth and disempower workers, and on possible alternatives.

If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.

People are using AI at work whether their bosses want them to or not, new data shows. But it’s desperation, not innovation, driving the change.

A California law firm is suing OpenAI for violating the privacy and property rights of countless people when it used their internet data to train its AI tech.

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions to support OpenAI, Google, Meta, and every other major tech company. As AI becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

Our columnist replaced herself with AI voice and video to see how humanlike the tech can be. The results were eerie.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data f

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AI Sweden, together with RISE and WASP WARA Media & Language, are developing a large-scale generative language model for the Nordic languages, and primarily Swedish.

American voters don't buy the argument that the U.S. must race ahead on AI to beat China, a new poll finds.

Earnest chats with objects are not so unusual. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the famed Detroit Tiger, used to stand on the pitching mound whispering to the baseball. Forky, the highly animate utensil from Toy Story 4, once posed deep questions about friendship to a ceramic mug. And many of us have made repeated queries of the Magic 8 Ball despite its limited set of randomly generated answers.

The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), an imagined system with more intelligence than anything we have ever seen. Without seriously questioning whether such a system can and should be built, researchers are working to create “safe AGI” that is “beneficial for all of humanity.” We argue that, unlike systems with specific applications which can be evaluated following standard engineering principles, undefined systems like “AGI” cannot be appropriately tested for safety. Why, then, is building AGI often framed as an unquestioned goal in the field of AI? In this paper, we argue that the normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century. As a result, many of the very same discriminatory attitudes that animated eugenicists in the past (e.g., racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism, and sexism) remain widespread within the movement to build AGI, resulting in systems that harm marginalized groups and centralize power, while using the language of “safety” and “benefiting humanity” to evade accountability. We conclude by urging researchers to work on defined tasks for which we can develop safety protocols, rather than attempting to build a presumably all-knowing system such as AGI.

Consumers who are tempted to upgrade will find higher prices for new AI-powered gadgets—and new subscription fees to access their full capabilities

The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. As we continue to follow the GPUs, navigating what comes next will be essential.

Startups say Microsoft and its Bing chatbot—not just Google—are stifling competition when it comes to creating better search engines.

Today, we are thrilled to announce that ChatGPT is available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. With Azure OpenAI Service, over 1,000 customers are applying the most advanced AI models—including Dall-E 2, GPT-3.5, Codex, and other large language models backed by the unique supercomputing and ...

Microsoft on Thursday outlined its plans to bring artificial intelligence to its most recognizable productivity tools, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word, with the promise of changing how millions do their work every day.

How do you want your content to be used in the AI era? Learn how Bing gives webmasters new control over their content in Bing Chat and for training Microsoft’s generative AI foundation models.

Microsoft’s new Recall feature in Windows 11 has generated privacy and security concerns. One security researcher says it’s a potential “disaster” for cybersecurity.

I wrote a piece recently about Copilot+ Recall, a new Microsoft Windows 11 feature which — in the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella- takes “screenshots” of your PC constantly, and makes it into an…

The search giant is making compromises on misinformation and other harms in order to catch up with ChatGPT, workers say

We’re announcing Google-Extended, a new control that web publishers can use to manage whether their sites help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs, including future generations of models that power those products.

Google's AI overview is facing online mockery after several of its answers, and some fake ones, have gone viral on social media.

This April, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS, announced Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan models as part of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock, currently available in preview, is a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from Amazon and leading AI startups—such as […]

Samsung responds to the controversy around the moon-capturing capabilities of its Galaxy S22/S23 Ultra cameras.

When you know how the end result should look, how much AI is too much?

Samsung has published a English-language blog post explaining the techniques used by its phones to photograph the Moon in response to a recent controversy about it faking Moon photographs.

So I stirred up a bit of conversation on Twitter last week when I noted that I had already been handed ChatGPT produced assignments. For those who are unaware, ChatGPT is an ‘AI’ chatbo…

Ghostwriters say the meteoric rise of ChatGPT has coincided with a drop in income.

Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic publisher, says AI writing tools like ChatGPT can’t be credited as authors on papers. But the organization says scientists can use AI to help write papers, with proper disclosure.

A college kid's mission to prevent misuse of artificial intelligence.

Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them.

Emory University gave students a $10,000 entrepreneurial prize for their AI startup, then suspended them and accused them of cheating when they built it.

Joshua Browder, the CEO of robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay, allegedly handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI's GPT-4 to save money.

DoNotPay chatbot app raises questions, and hackles about the use of AI for legal services

DoNotPay Inc, which says it uses artificial intelligence to help consumers and bills itself as "the world's first robot lawyer," is facing a new lawsuit from a prominent plaintiffs' law firm that says the company is practicing law without a license.

A class action lawsuit claims Joshua Browder's start-up misled consumers by peddling "substandard legal documents" and providing "unauthorized legal services."

The record industry has filed a list of thousands of songs it believes have been scraped without permission, and has recreated versions of famous songs using Udio and Suno.

The man behind a startup called DoNotPay planned to use AI to help fight a traffic ticket. But professional lawyers shut it down.

According to the lawsuit, the DoNotPay app doesn't even do a good job of handling its original purpose — fighting parking tickets.

Human lawyers: 'DoNotPay is not actually a robot, a lawyer, nor a law firm'

DoNotPay has pivoted away from plans to have its "robot lawyer" help two defendants with speeding tickets in court through AI.

A trove of unsecured data allowed the first-ever independent analysis of actual crime predictions across the U.S. by the self-described software leader, PredPol

The answer could be crucial in the FCC’s attempt to combat “digital discrimination”

The Markup found the state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color

The Andy Warhol ruling is less than a week old, but the Supreme Court may have just shaken the world of artificial intelligence to its core.

Kids "easily traceable" from photos used to train AI models, advocates warn.

Right on cue, and little more than 18 months after the public release of ChatGPT, consumer backlash against artificial intelligence is growing. A new academic study from the US reveals consumers recoil from the inclusion of 'artificial intelligence' in product and service descriptions. Brands that have a strong emotional connection with their consumers can offset the effect, but as Apple learned to its chagrin, even this effect has limitations. And with regulators around the world starting to consider the implications of AI disclosure, get ready for some uncomfortable conversations with your compliance teams.

Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors

There’s been one big question on the minds of Wall Streeters this tech earnings season: When will anyone start making actual money from artificial intelligence?

Tech firms have been spending historic amounts of money on AI—but will it pay off?

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Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. had one job heading into this earnings season: show that the billions of dollars they’ve each sunk into the infrastructure propelling the artificial intelligence boom is translating into real sales.

Hi there. Do you like this post? Did you know that I also do a podcast called Better Offline? If not, please immediately download it on your podcast app. Follow the show. Download every episode. Share with your friends, and demand they do the same.I did an entire episode on this! Check it out! Do it! Do it now!A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI

Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.

Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at the end of the day, these are just companies, which leads to a very simple question: can the largest, most prominent company in tech’s latest hype cycle actually survive? I am, of course, talking about OpenAI. R

Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon AmsterdamI have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense, logic and reason, a grotesque, wasteful wound in the side of the tech industry. August 2, 2024 was Black Friday for the artificial intelligence boom, as a week of rough earnings from Big Tech led to what felt like the en

 Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality output.

If the models continue eating each other's data, perhaps without even knowing it, they'll progressively get weirder and dumber until they collapse.

To fix their terribly writing AI, companies are now resorting to hiring poets and writers with humanity degrees.

Model collapse may provide the funding for accelerating decentralised collective intelligence. What needs to happen next?

Continue enables you to easily create your own coding assistant directly inside Visual Studio Code and JetBrains with open-source LLMs.

There is a war going on. Humanity and nature are on one side and Big Tech is on the other. The two sides are not opposed. They are orthogonal. The human side is horizontal and the Big Tech side is …

Shirui Pan, Senior Member, IEEE, Linhao Luo,Yufei Wang, Chen Chen, Jiapu Wang, Xindong Wu, Fellow, IEEEShirui Pan is with the School of Information and Communication Technology and Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.Email: s.pan@griffith.edu.au;Linhao Luo and Yufei Wang are with the Department of Data Science and AI, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. E-mail: linhao.luo@monash.edu, garyyufei@gmail.com.Chen Chen is with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. E-mail: s190009@ntu.edu.sg.Jiapu Wang is with the Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China. E-mail: jpwang@emails.bjut.edu.cn.Xindong Wu is with the Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data (the Ministry of Education of China), Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, and also with the Research Center for Knowledge Engineering, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China.Email: xwu@hfut.edu.cn.Shirui Pan and Linhao Luo contributed equally to this work. Corresponding Author: Xindong Wu.