machine learning

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

Mickey Vernon

Google added that part of the problem it faces in generating AI Overviews is that, for some very specific queries, ...

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Mickey Vernon

Demos of AI agents can seem stunning, but getting the technology to perform reliably and without annoying (or costly) errors ...

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

Mickey Vernon

I leave ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on while writing this article as an ambient AI companion. Occasionally, I’ll ask it ...

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

Albert Wagner

Right now, generative artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary may randomly appear at the top of ...

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

Mickey Vernon

Khanmigo doesn’t answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has ...

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

Mickey Vernon

In R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event ...

We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

Mickey Vernon

When OpenAI announced GPT-4, its latest large language model, last March, it sent shockwaves through the tech world. It was ...

How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable

How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable

Mickey Vernon

Posing a far greater challenge for AI researchers was the game of Diplomacy—a favorite of politicians like John F. Kennedy ...

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

Mickey Vernon

A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it ...

Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

Mickey Vernon

One of the new ad formats Google announced today will allow brands to link short-form videos they made—or ones they ...

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