Apple is calling on experts with backgrounds in generative AI to work with the company's "most advanced technologies," including augmented and virtual reality, according to new job listings posted by ...
[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...
At the beginning of every course, you are handed a syllabus. The best of them are short. The worst ones are way too long. They can include all kinds of information, from a list of materials to a long ...
[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...
A number of native Detroiters have asked me what I think about their city so far. The simple answer is that I don't feel qualified to offer much insight yet. I've been here for roughly three days as I...
Marketers have relied on paid and organic search to deliver steady results time and again over the past decade. Changes occurred gradually, giving marketers ample time to adapt their strategies. But t...
[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...
The first rule of home ownership is that you are perpetually unprepared for just how expensive it is. Even after years of dealing with the slow-motion collapse of your most valuable asset, you can sti...
Apple, like a number of companies right now, may be grappling with what role the newest advances in AI are playing, and should play, in its business. But one thing Apple is confident about is the fact...
Apple today previewed a wide range of new accessibility features for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac that are set to arrive later this year.
The hottest corner of the robotic space right now isn't the robots themselves. Those companies have done an excellent job getting their systems out into places like warehouses and factories, but the b...
Your brain is complex, but once you figure out its little intricacies--like that it can only store about seven units of information in short-term memory--you can exploit them to help you remember more...
Saffron HuangI used to fall asleep at night with needles in my face. One needle shallowly planted in the inner corners of each eyebrow, one per temple, one in the middle of each eyebrow above the pupi...
Among the many initial concerns around AI and ChatGPT is that students would use it to write their school papers or essays or otherwise cheat on assignments. While you obviously shouldn't do that--you...
Will Knight[photo1]Geoffrey Hinton, perhaps the most important person in the recent history of artificial intelligence, recently sent me a video of Snoop Dogg. In the clip of a discussion panel, the r...
Have you ever suffered creative mortification? Coined by educator Ronald Beghetto, the term describes losing your willingness to pursue a creative avenue following a negative outcome. Maybe you gave u...
I'm heading back to the South Bay next week, thanks to Google I/O, which is coming back to the Shoreline Amphitheater. I honestly don't expect much of anything related to this beat, though AI is going...
We know getting out in nature is essential for growing humans. But maybe you are an indoor cat like I am and struggle to get yourself and the kids outside for even a few minutes every day. Here are so...
Will Knight[photo1]ChatGPT and its brethren are both surprisingly clever and disappointingly dumb. Sure, they can generate pretty poems, solve scientific puzzles, and debug spaghetti code. But we know...
Much of the world may currently be fretting about how to limit the impact (lack of privacy, copyright issues, loss of jobs, world domination, etc.) of artificial intelligence. However, that does not m...