Google has quietly started enabling a feature in Gmail that allows it to read your emails and attachments to train its AI models. Officially, this...
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.
With more and more game developers creating AI slop, or just using AI generation for stupid things in their games, we need more ways to avoid them.
According to the research, 45 percent of responses to questions about the news had at least one ‘significant’ issue.
A conversion rate of less than 0.1%. That was the moment I realized something was fundamentally broken with the way we measure success on the internet.
Unregulated AI scribes raising privacy, security concerns.
Artificial intelligence (AI) developers are increasingly building language models with warm and empathetic personas that millions of people now use for advice, therapy, and companionship. Here, we...
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at the moment. To my surprise and dismay, I hit upon this ScienceDirect page that 'defined' the concept as follows: I thought, Huh?! This…
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.
My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on the course catalog and asking it to propose a weekly schedule. They use it to make their writing sound […]
An analysis of complaints submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reveals that consumers are using tools like ChatGPT to help them articulate their concerns. Those AI-edited grievances have a higher likelihood of receiving relief, according to new research co-authored by Yale SOM’s Jiwoong Shin.
Like so many trolls before, AI is now, apparently, telling people to learn to code when they ask it to write it for them.
A deep-learning model performs comparably to an abdominal radiologist when it comes to finding clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, researchers have reported.
We’re in the early years of the AI revolution, but we’re not completely appreciative of these nascent technologies. Some people