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Are Personal AI Chatbots Becoming Dangerous Agents of Chaos?
The death of 14 year old Sewell Setzer III raises new concerns about the risks of AI chatbots. And it has broader implications to how we approach AI…
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Andrew Maynard
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Learning to live with agentic social AI
The better AI models get at simulating human behavior and interactions, the better they're likely to get at leveraging people to achieve specific goals…
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Andrew Maynard
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Is this how AI will transform the world over the next decade?
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has just published a radical vision of an AI-accelerated future. It's audacious, compelling, and a must-read for anyone…
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AI captures this year's Nobel Prize for Physics
AI researchers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have just been awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on artificial intelligence
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Andrew Maynard
The double or nothing bet on AI "fixing the climate"
AI proponents are claiming future artificial intelligence capabilities will solve pretty much everything – including climate change. But only if we…
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ChatGPT as Author Part 2: The Conversation
Yesterday I wrote about how ChatGPT surprised me with it's story-writing abilities. But it was the conversation I had with it afterward that blew me…
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ChatGPT as Author Part 1: The Story
Can ChatGPT write a passable novel? A week ago I would have said no way. But an unexpected and serendipitous experiment made me think again.
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Woah, I have some smart colleagues researching AI at ASU!
Arizona State University is known for it's leadership in using generative AI. But what about research into the cutting edge of artificial intelligence…
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Five AI-generated podcast episodes that'll make you think
Google's personal AI assistant NotebookLM can now generate full-on AI podcasts. The results are amazing. But they're also concerning.
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Neuralink's Blindsight brain implant gets one step closer to human trials
The company has just received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA for their "Blindsight" brain computer interface technology, fast tracking…
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OpenAI's new "chain of thought" model is designed to reason like a human. How does it cope with a moral dilemma?
OpenAI's new model OpenAI o1, or "Strawberry" as it's been dubbed, does well at problems requiring chain of thought reasoning. But how does this extend…
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Is ChatGPT's new Voice Mode dangerously persuasive?
OpenAI's research indicates it is not, but things may be less certain than they seem
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