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Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Mickey Vernon

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost ...

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

Mickey Vernon

Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are ...

OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive

OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive

Mickey Vernon

GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at ...

Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

Mickey Vernon

The difference between a conventional model and a reasoning one is similar to the two types of thinking described by ...

This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection

This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection

Albert Wagner

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard ...

To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices

To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices

Mickey Vernon

At some point in the future, AIs may create works of art, music, and writing that rival human-created ones. For ...

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

Mickey Vernon

One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs. The ...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

Mickey Vernon

Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the ...

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

Mickey Vernon

Some Medium writers and editors do applaud the platform’s approach to AI. Eric Pierce, who founded Medium’s largest pop culture ...

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

Mickey Vernon

A few years ago I wrote about how, when planning my wedding, I’d signaled to the Pinterest app that I ...

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