[photo1]Paresh DaveComputer scientist Pascale Fung can imagine a rosy future in which polyglot AI helpers like ChatGPT bridge language barriers. In that world, Indonesian store owners fluent only in l...
[photo1]Amanda Hoover Samantha SpenglerLike many autistic people, Madi Young, a consultant in Seattle, has learned to perform the social behaviors and body language that neurotypical people expect. Bu...
[photo1]Lauren GoodeIn late March, a well-funded artificial intelligence startup hosted what it said was the first ever AI film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in San Francisco. The startup, ...
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has been touring Europe for the past few days, meeting head of governments and startup communities to talk about AI regulation, ChatGPT and beyond. In his latest on-stage appea...
Among other things, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer. Hopefully, you're headed to the mountains, a beach, or at least grilling something during the long weekend. It's no time for Deal...
[photo1]Kate KnibbsHere's the thing about podcasts: There are too many of them. More than 4 million, to be precise, according to the database Podcast Index. In the past three days alone, nearly 103,00...
[photo1]Irene SolaimanRecently, a leaked document, allegedly from Google, claimed that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI. The leak brought to the fore ongoing conversations in the AI co...
[photo1]Paresh DaveGoogle has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays, and swap out overcast skies for sunshine in ot...
[photo1]Matt BurgessEurope's GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent's strict data rules came into force, Meta has been hit with a colossal EUR1....
[photo1]David NieldThe capabilities of AI tools are progressing rapidly, with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and many others racing to stay ahead of the competition. It feels like advances and apps are ar...
While learning high-level mathematics is no easy feat, teaching math concepts can often be just as tricky. That may be why many teachers are turning to ChatGPT for help. According to a recent Forbes a...
All modern Intel and AMD PCs can trace their roots back to a single system: the IBM Personal Computer. Originally released in August of 1981, this computer became so popular and long-lived that compet...
[photo1]Reece RogersApplicationPersonal assistantPersonal servicesText generationEnd UserConsumerDuring my initial interactions with ChatGPT Plus, I was not fully convinced that OpenAI's $20-a-month s...
[photo1]Will KnightThis week, US senators heard alarming testimony suggesting that unchecked AI could steal jobs, spread misinformation, and generally "go quite wrong," in the words of OpenAI CEO Sam ...
Seven weeks after Alibaba announced its historic restructuring plan to split itself into six independent companies, the juggernaut is gearing up to spin off its intelligence group public.Alibaba went ...
By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode[photo1]ON THIS WEEK'S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Daron Acemoglu, institute professor at MIT, about h...
[photo1]Dell CameronEach year, at the request of police and intelligence agents across the country, the United States Postal Service conducts surveillance on physical pieces of mail going to and from ...
With all the apps and digital tools available to enhance your studying, plus how fast and easy it is to type notes, it seems like a no-brainer to bring your laptop with you to class. But it actually m...
Matt BurgessThe UK government is quietly expanding and developing a controversial surveillance technology that could be capable of logging and storing the web histories of millions of people.Official ...
How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look.If you look at the stock market, the view isn't very good: the charts are all down and ...