The Download: How AI is changing music, and a US city’s AI experiment
While large language models that generate text have exploded in the last three years, a different type of AI, based ...
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Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there
This all means it’s up to the tech companies themselves to act on their own initiative. And Big Tech has ...
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The Download: China’s empty data centers, and OpenAI’s new practical image generator
3 The US government has hired a vaccine skeptic to conduct a major vaccine studyThe long-discredited David Geier will oversee ...
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OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enough for designers and advertisers
It’s “a new tool for communication,” says Gabe Goh, the lead designer on the generator at OpenAI. Kenji Hata, a ...
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How to… delete your 23andMe data
Beyond the laboratories that process the saliva samples, the company does not share customer information with anyone else unless the ...
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The Download: the dangers of AI agents, and ChatGPT’s effects on our wellbeing
—Margaret Mitchell, Avijit Ghosh, Sasha Luccioni, Giada Pistilli all work for Hugging Face, an open source AI company. AI agents ...
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The Download: The future of energy, and chatting about chatbots
Where can you find lasers, electric guitars, and racks full of novel batteries, all in the same giant room? This ...
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Autopsies can reveal intimate health details. Should they be kept private?
This is where things get really complicated. Ethically speaking, we should consider the wishes of the deceased. Would that person ...
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OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional wellbeing
The researchers found some intriguing differences between how men and women respond to using ChatGPT. After using the chatbot for ...
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Europe is finally getting serious about commercial rockets
“I expect four or five companies to get to the point of launching, and then over a period of years ...
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