Back in my day, the phrase used to be “there’s an app for that,” and that’s still the case, though with one major amendment: now, it’s “there’s an AI app for that.” In fact, there’s even an AI app for making apps—buckle up, kiddos, things are about to get meta. Let me explain: Rork, which I […]
Jony Ive and Sam Altman, Sitting in a Tree, ‘K-I-L-L-I-N-G’ the Smartphone
OpenAI declared it will put up an astronomical $6.5 billion to merge with Jony Ive and his secretive AI device design company. Ive, who helped bring us legendary products like the iMac and iPhone, will lead the makers of ChatGPT not just in making a better chatbot but in creating a product that “reimagines” a […]
Billionaire Man-Child Elon Musk Gives His Most Petulant Interview to Date
Elon Musk gave an interview to Bloomberg News on Tuesday, appearing remotely to an audience at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. And while the billionaire oligarch has given plenty of whiny and childish interviews over the years, his latest is one of the most juvenile to date. Musk repeatedly insulted the interviewer for asking […]
AI Gets a Lot Better at Debating When It Knows Who You Are, Study Finds
A new study shows that GPT-4 reliably wins debates against its human counterparts in one-on-one conversations—and the technology gets even more persuasive when it knows your age, job, and political leanings. Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland, Princeton University, and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy paired 900 study participants with either a human debate partner […]
Animation Studio Toei Wants to Use AI for Future Productions
If you watch anime, particularly of the shonen variety, you likely know Toei Animation. The studio is best known for adapting popular manga like Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon, and it’s got plenty of work coming out. When those series and films release, some may have been made with artificial intelligence. In Toei’s recently published financial […]
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was touting the research of a PhD student on the impact of AI on the workforce that “floored” professors in the field. Now the university is backing away from it and calling for it to no longer be published. On Friday, MIT announced that it reviewed the paper […]
AI Is Deciphering Animal Speech. Should We Try to Talk Back?
Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks. Animals converse in all kinds of ways, yet humankind has only scratched the surface of how they communicate with each other and the rest of the living world. Our species has trained some animals—and if you ask cats, animals have trained us, too—but we’ve yet to truly crack the code […]
OpenAI Just Released a Coding Tool to ‘Help’ Programmers (Replace Their Jobs, Probably)
OpenAI has launched a new agentic coding tool with the potential to make even the most fresh-faced code monkey a software superstar. Codex, which the company announced on Thursday, represents a new sidebar feature inside OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT. While obviously an exciting event in the world of software development, the tool also seems like […]
Gemini on Android Auto Could Be Your Hands-Free Wingman
Google’s Gemini AI is mowing down the age-old Google Assistant as it rushes in to set up shop on Android Auto. Soon, users will be asked to have “conversations” with their car all while they have their hands on 10 and 2. Unlike AI on your phone or smartwatch, Gemini’s true use case could be […]
Jony Ive Can’t Save Us From the iPhone Addiction He Helped Create
The legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive has a few regrets. The man helped bring us the iPhone, which in turn was the advent of the smartphone and social media revolution. Now Ive is working with OpenAI—the company that sparked today’s AI fixation—to design some kind of AI-centric hardware that he says will help him […]