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November 20, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The (Open)AI Apocalypse is Here
The ChatGPT developer is in chaos after the board dismissed its CEO on Friday.
November 15, 2023
Matt Ford
Silicon Valley’s Big A.I. Dreams Are Headed for a Copyright Crash
The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.
September 19, 2023
Magazine
Mike Pearl
How Big Tech Is Ruining the Dream of AI
Artificial intelligence once promised to make us healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or total annihilation.
May 31, 2023
Matt Ford
ChatGPT Fought the Law, and the Law Won
Here is an object lesson in how not to use generative A.I.
May 10, 2023
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Great A.I. Hallucination
Is the hype (and doomsaying) around generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT obscuring what the technology actually does—and its genuine limitations and dangers?
March 30, 2023
Steve Israel
Here’s What Happened When ChatGPT Wrote to Elected Politicians
Cornell researchers used artificial intelligence to write advocacy emails to state legislators. The responses don’t bode well for democracy in the age of A.I.
March 3, 2023
Matt Ford
Artificial Intelligence Meets Its Worst Enemy: the U.S. Copyright Office
Washington’s legal eagles have held that these technical entities are incapable of creating art. At least one chatbot we spoke with agrees.
March 1, 2023
Alex Shephard
Artificial Intelligence Is Dumb
Programs such as ChatGPT have been greeted with an unholy amount of hyperbole, but they just can’t live up to the hype.
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