The burgeoning world of AI-powered mental health support is a minefield. From chatbots giving dangerously incorrect medical advice to AI companions encouraging self-harm, the headlines are filled with cautionary tales. High-profile apps like Character.AI and Replika have faced backlash for harmful and inappropriate responses, and academic studies have raised alarms. Two recent studies from Stanford […]
As Fears About AI Grow, Sam Altman Says Gen-Z Are the ‘Luckiest Kids in History’
Over the weekend, the New York Times dropped a story about how computer science graduates are so hard up for jobs that they’ve been forced to look for work at Chipotle. The reason? Many people are blaming AI, which has increasingly eaten into the job market for entry-level coders. Not everybody is worried about this, […]
Nvidia’s Six-Word Response to China
Nvidia is on the defensive. Just as the AI giant secured a fragile, high-stakes deal to resume selling its specialized chips to China, the company is now being forced to fight back against accusations from Chinese state media that its products are a national security threat. The attack, which came just hours after the deal […]
Elon Musk Says Apple Is Rigging the App Store for ChatGPT
Elon Musk has opened a fresh front in his ongoing feud with Big Tech.This time he’s targeting Apple. On Monday night, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO accused the iPhone maker of antitrust violations, claiming its App Store policies put his AI chatbot Grok, developed by xAI, at a disadvantage compared to rivals, particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT. […]
Elon Musk Can’t Control His AI
With Grok, the months pass, but the story stays the same. The AI chatbot from xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, continues to stir controversy, putting its host platform, X, in an increasingly embarrassing position. Just weeks after a version of Grok was found to be praising Adolf Hitler, the new, supposedly more powerful “SuperGrok” […]
A Kentucky Town Experimented With AI. The Results Were Stunning
A county in Kentucky conducted a month-long “town hall” with nearly 8,000 residents in attendance earlier this year, thanks to artificial intelligence technology. Bowling Green, Kentucky’s third largest city and a part of Warren County, is facing a huge population spike by 2050. To scale the city in preparation for this, county officials wanted to […]
The Real Reason You Haven’t Been Replaced by AI Yet
AI is already powerful enough to replace millions of jobs. The only thing stopping the mass layoffs isn’t technology. It’s that no CEO wants to be the first one to face the political firestorm. Source link
OpenAI Brings Back Fan-Favorite GPT-4o After a Massive User Revolt
After a disastrous 72 hours that saw its most loyal users in open revolt, OpenAI is making a major U-turn. In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is bringing back its beloved older AI models, including GPT-4o, and dramatically increasing usage limits for paying subscribers, […]
Breakfast With ChatGPT: Three Workers, One Morning, A Different AI Story
I came to Cleveland, Ohio, for the 50th anniversary of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. I expected the hallways to be buzzing with conversations about AI, and they were, but not in the way I’d hoped. For the first two days, the phrase I heard most from my fellow journalists was “we […]
After a Summer of Chaos, OpenAI Strikes Back
OpenAI just had its best week in months. And it desperately needed it. The San Francisco-based company, best known for ChatGPT, has spent much of June and July in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. First came the talent raid: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened the checkbook, reportedly offering hundreds of millions of dollars […]