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The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got FiredA local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved. #Artificial Intelligence #Business #Media 2024-11-21T02:00:00-0800 WIRED Guthrie Scrimgeour 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-26T16:29:42-0800 - sethherr |
This Chatbot Pulls People Away From Conspiracy TheoriesIn a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot. #Artificial Intelligence #Conspiracy Theory #Psychology 2024-09-12T11:30:55-0700 The New York Times Teddy Rosenbluth ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-11T15:22:14-0700 - sethherr Rated 2024-09-23T17:10:31-0700 - &e |
DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and DumbOnce a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great. #Art #Artificial Intelligence #Internet #Law 2024-05-16T08:30:00-0700 Slate Nitish Pahwa 3,000 words Rated 2024-05-20T10:57:24-0700 - sethherr |
Opinion | Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?Revisiting Michael Crichton’s prophecy of cultural stagnation. #1990s #Artificial Intelligence #China 2024-04-19T10:25:07-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-04-23T00:00:11-0700 - sethherr |
How Montreal Built a Blueprint for Bargain Rapid TransitAt $139 million per mile, the REM is far less costly than similar recent projects. Cities with ballooning transit budgets can learn from its approach. #Business #City #Government #Infrastructure #Los Angeles #New York 2023-10-30T06:00:16-0700 Bloomberg 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-05T22:46:59-0800 - sethherr |
Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be CopyrightedMatthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.” #Art #Artificial Intelligence #Culture 2023-09-06T14:13:22-0700 WIRED Kate Knibbs 1,000 words Rated 2023-09-06T18:11:08-0700 - Jaog |
Reading the Yield CurveInfallible Recession Indicator? Noisy Signal? Both? #Business #Education and schools #Finance 2023-08-23T06:06:16-0700 Capital Gains Byrne Hobart 1,000 words Rated 2023-08-27T14:56:54-0700 - sethherr |
One year old, US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technologyExcessive heat continues to bear down on sections of the US, a reminder of the impetus for the The Inflation Reduction Act, the significant climate legislation that turns one year old on August 16. #Business #Canada #China #Climate Change #Europe #Inflation Reduction Act #Renewable energy 2023-07-23T05:11:13-0700 AP News ISABELLA O'MALLEY, MICHAEL PHILLIS 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-23T12:15:20-0700 - estew |
The Chip Titan Whose Life’s Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold WarAt 92, Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, can no longer stay in the shadows. #Apple #Artificial Intelligence #China #Politics 2023-08-04T02:01:01-0700 The New York Times Paul Mozur, John Liu ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-08-13T10:29:54-0700 - sethherr |
A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated GuidebooksShoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the problem? #Amazon #Artificial Intelligence #Books #Fraud 2023-08-05T02:00:09-0700 The New York Times Seth Kugel, Stephen Hiltner ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-08-07T19:19:07-0700 - sethherr |
The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanityThe founders of Anthropic left OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done. #Artificial Intelligence #Technology 2023-07-17T03:00:00-0700 Vox Dylan Matthews 7,000 words Rated 2023-07-23T11:42:19-0700 - elll |
The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year GrudgeIn 1973, Uri Geller claimed to bend metal with his mind on live television. Skeptics couldn’t beat him. Now they’ve joined him. #Artificial Intelligence #Britain #Celebrity #Israel #Magic 2023-07-08T02:00:42-0700 The New York Times David Segal ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-07-21T10:37:17-0700 - sethherr |
Wikipedia’s Moment of TruthCan the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? #Artificial Intelligence #Google #Reddit 2023-07-18T02:00:21-0700 The New York Times Jon Gertner ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-07-20T18:40:22-0700 - sethherr |
Gym, spa, beauty equipment: Leaked documents reveal hidden details of Putin's 'ghost' trainA train used by Russian President Vladimir Putin to travel away from the public eye has a secret gym, Turkish bath and cosmetology suite on board, a brochure and blueprints leaked to the Dossier Center and shared with CNN reveal. #Business #Europe #Vladimir Putin 2023-07-09T23:47:29-0700 CNN Matthew Chance, Mick Krever 1,000 words Rated 2023-07-10T04:27:58-0700 - Jaog |
Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark BattleApple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it’s flexing its legal muscles. #Apple #Business #Farming 2023-06-18T23:00:00-0700 WIRED Gabriela Galindo 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-23T16:51:25-0700 - &e |
A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. BoomIn Silicon Valley’s hacker houses, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs is partying, innovating — and hoping not to get crushed by the big guys. #Artificial Intelligence #Silicon Valley 2023-05-31T01:57:13-0700 The New York Times Yiren Lu ($) 5,000 words Rated 2023-06-07T17:46:59-0700 - cindy |
They Fled San Francisco. The A.I. Boom Pulled Them Back.Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can’t afford to miss out on the funding, hackathons and networking of the artificial intelligence frenzy. #Artificial Intelligence #San Francisco 2023-06-07T02:01:22-0700 The New York Times Erin Griffith ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-07T16:37:36-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-06-07T14:53:46-0700 - cindy |
California Builds the Future, for Good and Bad. What’s Next?From reparations to tax revolts, the Golden State tries out new ideas all the time. What roads will its latest experiments send us down? #Artificial Intelligence #California #Immigration #Politics 2023-05-30T01:55:07-0700 The New York Times Laila Lalami ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T09:15:50-0700 - sethherr |
The Computers Are Getting Better at WritingSteve Marche on Sudowrite, an application that harnesses the artificial-intelligence program GPT-3 to generate text and even mimic the literary style of writers such as Franz Kafka. #Artificial Intelligence #Literature #Technology #Writing 2021-04-30T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Stephen Marche 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-26T09:32:10-0700 - elll |