AI

I'm going to ask Alexa, to ask Siri, to ask Jarvis, to ask Watson, to ask Claude, to ask Jasper, to ask Einstein, to ask ChatGPT if Rufus is a good name for a new generative AI-powered shopping assistant. Our friends at Amazon think it is. Continue Reading →

The AI poisoning tool Nightshade, which protects digital artwork from being used to train generative AI models without permission, racked up more than 250,000 downloads in just five days. Continue Reading →

The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has informed OpenAI that it suspects ChatGPT of violating European Union privacy laws. Continue Reading →

ElevenLabs, an AI startup specializing in voice replication technology, has banned a user account responsible for creating an audio deepfake of President Biden. The deepfake featured a message urging people not to vote in the New Hampshire primary. Continue Reading →

Deepfakes are all fun and games until a synthetic Taylor Swift starts promising free cookware on TikTok – then it requires Federal legislation. Continue Reading →

Just in time for my upcoming lecture at the Newhouse School – Generative AI Co-teachers and Co-students: A New Relationship – Google has introduced several new features for its Classroom aimed at enhancing classroom management, accessibility, and the integration of AI in educational tools. Continue Reading →

Google is introducing three new experimental AI features for Chrome. They range from useful to not-so-useful, but they also foreshadow an AI-infused future. Continue Reading →

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, "Eternal You" is a documentary that explores the emerging (and slightly unsettling) business of "thanabots" (thanatology meets robotics), where AI models are trained to resurrect those who've shuffled off this mortal coil. Continue Reading →

You know who really hates AI? The middle management mafia. When you teach a member of your corporate deep state to do a job in 30 minutes that used to take three hours, you know what they want to do at minute 31? Grab a coffee. When you ask them what they did with the 2.5 hours of time that AI created for the company, the stock answer will be something like, "Well… you know that generative AI hallucinates. We were checking the output for accuracy." So much for the ROI on your $30-per-seat investment in Copilot. But there is hope for the "this meeting should have been an email" crowd. Let's explore. Continue Reading →

In an interview with Alex Heath for The Verge, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined his company's ambitious goal to develop AGI and its strategic reorganization to integrate AI research and product development. Continue Reading →