Over the past decade, as mass shootings have become depressingly common, school districts have increasingly invested in surveillance systems designed to monitor students’ online activity. Recently, one of those systems pinged after a teen in Florida asked ChatGPT for advice about how to kill his friend, local police said. The episode occurred in Deland, Florida, […]
Looks Like Sam Altman and Jony Ive Are Struggling to Make an AI Device That Does… Anything
Killing the smartphone ain’t easy business; just ask Sam Altman and Jony Ive. In May, the OpenAI CEO and former Apple chief designer announced that they would be making a real, tangible gadget you can eventually hold with your (presumably) real, non-chatbot hands—and not just any gadget. As part of a new company called IO, […]
What Past Education Tech Failures Can Teach Us About the Future of AI in Schools
This article was originally published on The Conversation. American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be replaced by film strips, because text was 2% efficient, but film was 100% efficient. Those bogus […]
Oakley Meta HSTN Review: Sporty AI Glasses With a Confusing Game Plan
No matter how long I spend writing and thinking about gadgets, there are some things that never cease to surprise me. One of those things is progress. Not just that progress happens, but the pace at which it happens. Case in point: smart glasses. Just yesterday (not literally, but figuratively), Meta was selling one pair: […]
Wikimedia Is Making Its Data AI-Friendly
Wikimedia, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and sister sites like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, just made it easier for AI models to tap into its massive knowledge base. Wikimedia Deutschland, the organization’s German chapter, released a new resource called the Wikidata Embedding Project. It takes the roughly 120 million open data points stored in Wikidata and […]
OpenAI Officially Launches Video Generator Sora 2, Now With Social Feed
Fake videos are about to look less fake, for better or worse. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of Sora 2, the latest version of its flagship model for audio and video generation. And, as previously reported, the launch of the model is accompanied by a new social app designed to allow people to share […]
No, Dedicated AI Buttons on Laptops Are Not Going to Sell More PCs
We’ll be waiting until next year for the first round of PCs sporting Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip, plus whatever Intel and AMD have in store for lightweight laptops. As a hint of what to expect, in stepped a company nobody had ever heard of, offering a laptop few people wanted. Humain (no, […]
Neon, an App That Pays to Record Your Phone Calls Hit #2 on the App Store, Taken Down Over Security Flaw
After coming out of nowhere, a viral new app that pays people to record their phone calls for the purpose of training AI has been yanked offline after a security flaw allegedly exposed user data. Neon founder Alex Kiam told Gizmodo in an email that the app’s servers are down while the team patches the […]
ChatGPT Pulse: OpenAI Wants to Give You a Morning Briefing (and Get a Peek at Your Other Apps)
Some ChatGPT users can now get their day started with a personalized morning briefing from ChatGPT, but first, the OpenAI chatbot will have to scour through their chat history, email, and calendar, among other things, the night before. OpenAI announced today that it is previewing a new feature called ChatGPT Pulse to users who are […]
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 vs Gen 1: Which Smart Glasses Should You Buy?
It’s hard to believe, but we now live in a world where you have to account for generations of smart glasses. That’s great for variety’s sake, but for choosing which smart glasses to buy (in this case, which Ray-Ban-branded smart glasses in particular), things might get a little confusing. Having used both generations of Meta’s Ray-Ban AI […]