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2024-06-20 14:15:10

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?
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This week, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend.
https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-648/

2024-06-16 13:15:07

Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI's Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy
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Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-needs-enormous-computing-power-could-light-based-chips-help/

2024-06-13 18:45:10

AI Chatbots Are Running for Office Now
https://media.wired.com/photos/666a3a6de419292a314f6286/master/pass/Politics-Lab-AI-Candidates-Politics.jpg
Meet AI Steve and VIC, the chatbots running for office in 2024.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-chatbots-running-for-office/

2024-06-13 18:15:10

Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product
https://media.wired.com/photos/666a406ecd2db4ffb305956c/master/pass/WWDC-2024-AI-Fast-Forward-Business-2156971852.jpg
Other tech companies want to sell you chatbots. Apple’s demos show the value of seeing the AI as an integrated, holistic experience rather than a stand-alone app or device.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ai-feature-not-product/

2024-06-13 17:30:13

The Fight Against AI Comes to a Foundational Data Set
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Long-running nonprofit Common Crawl has been a boon to researchers for years. But now its role in AI training data has triggered backlash from publishers.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fight-against-ai-comes-to-a-foundational-data-set/

2024-06-13 16:30:13

Artifact’s DNA Lives on in Yahoo’s Revamped AI-Powered News App
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Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram’s cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year. The web giant then used some of Artifact’s AI smarts to supercharge its own mobile news app.
https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-news-app-relaunch-artifact/

2024-06-13 16:15:11

LinkedIn’s AI Career Coaches Will See You Now
https://media.wired.com/photos/666a388bdd8c83831dde08a7/master/pass/LinkedIn-AI-Career-Coaches-Business-94119684.jpg
LinkedIn’s new generative AI features include chatbots based on popular career coaches and tools to rewrite résumés and cover letters.
https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-features-career-coach-chatbot/

2024-06-13 15:45:10

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2024-06-13 14:15:10

Thinking Different About Apple AI
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This week, we discuss how Apple’s approach to artificial intelligence differs from those of its rivals. Hint: It goes deeper than Genmoji.
https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-647/

2024-06-13 12:15:10

If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
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The famed futurist remains inhumanly optimistic about the world and his own fate—and thinks the singularity is minutes away.
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-ray-kurzweil/

2024-06-12 23:00:15

Meet the Photographer Behind the Social Media App for Everyone Sick of Meta’s AI
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Artists are fleeing Meta’s platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang’s Cara promises protection, but the influx of new users is taxing her niche portfolio app.
https://www.wired.com/story/cara-portfolio-app-artificial-intelligence-jingna-zhang/

2024-06-12 21:00:18

An AI Bot Is (Sort of) Running for Mayor in Wyoming
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Wyoming’s secretary of state wants the county to reject its candidacy, but the AI bot’s human “meat puppet” says everything is in order.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bot-running-for-mayor-wyoming/

Worried About AI Killing Art? This App Offers a Refuge—If Its Founder Can Keep the Lights On
https://media.wired.com/photos/6668d66f53a4082e6b5d1d6d/master/pass/061124-culture-cara-app-artists-ai.jpg
Artists are fleeing Meta’s platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang’s Cara promises protection, but the influx of new users is taxing her niche portfolio app.
https://www.wired.com/story/cara-portfolio-app-artificial-intelligence-jingna-zhang/

There's an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK
https://media.wired.com/photos/666795bde65e6380511c27b8/master/pass/AI-STEVE-UK-Candidate-Site-Politics.jpg
If it wins, “AI Steve” will be represented by businessman Steve Endacott in Parliament. Endacott says he'll merely be a conduit, and the AI will make the policy decisions.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-candidate-running-for-parliament-uk/

2024-06-11 13:15:10

The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
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In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-tech-worlds-greatest-living-novelist-robin-sloan-goes-meta/

2024-06-11 08:15:10

Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI
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Danish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don’t get one, they are threatening to sue.
https://www.wired.com/story/danish-media-demands-a-deal-with-openai-or-else/

2024-06-11 03:00:14

AI Is Apple’s Best Shot at Getting You to Upgrade Your iPhone
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Apple is limiting its new artificial intelligence features to new phones, in hopes of a sunny September.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-apples-best-shot-at-getting-you-to-upgrade-your-phone/

2024-06-11 02:00:15

Apple's Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave
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Apple Intelligence will make apps and services smarter. But Apple’s most notable innovations focus on ensuring the technology doesn't disappoint, annoy, or offend.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ios-macos-ai-openai/

2024-06-10 22:45:08

Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2024: AI Features, New Siri, Genmoji
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The company's annual developer event was stacked with demonstrations that showed off the new artificial intelligence capabilities coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-wwdc-2024/

2024-06-10 20:45:10

Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI
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At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced its first serious foray into generative AI, with a focus on app integrations and data privacy.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ios-wwdc/

2024-06-10 06:15:10

AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
https://media.wired.com/photos/6664d9df9b3a4000ea77c264/master/pass/AI-Tools-Training-On-Real-Children's-Faces-2-Business-517081122.jpg
A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-tools-are-secretly-training-on-real-childrens-faces/

2024-06-09 13:15:07

How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable
https://media.wired.com/photos/666089bdc5df112122a38df1/master/pass/Consensus-game-scaled.jpg
Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more correct, efficient, and consistent.
https://www.wired.com/story/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-and-efficient/

2024-06-09 10:15:10

The EU Is Taking on Big Tech. It May Be Outmatched
https://media.wired.com/photos/6663aa86a7e48c1e5e72cdef/master/pass/EU-Taking-On-Big-Tech-Business-2092426358.jpg
From the Digital Services Act to the AI Act, in five years Europe has created a lot of rules for the digital world. Implementing them, however, isn’t always easy.
https://www.wired.com/story/european-commission-big-tech-regulation-outlook/

2024-06-08 14:15:07

Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin
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Plus: Wilson Audio revamps its iconic speakers, Elon continues to Elon, and Google’s AI overviews are already causing chaos.
https://www.wired.com/story/things-keep-getting-worse-for-the-humane-ai-pin/

2024-06-07 15:15:10

Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI
https://media.wired.com/photos/66625436bd6c904f877d7337/master/pass/Tech-Mistrust-AI-Plaintext-Business-1194975140.jpg
It’s OK to be doubtful of tech leaders’ grandiose visions of our AI future—but that doesn’t mean the technology won’t have a huge impact.
https://www.wired.com/story/dont-let-mistrust-of-tech-companies-blind-you-power-of-ai/

2024-06-07 12:15:10

An AI Cartoon May Interview You for Your Next Job
https://media.wired.com/photos/666242fd76dc0bf00edd729d/master/pass/business_ai_cartoon_job_interview.jpg
As if trying to land a new gig isn’t demoralizing enough, job seekers are meeting with characters powered by generative AI who are capable of meeting with infinite candidates to judge their skills.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-cartoon-next-job/

2024-06-06 22:30:13

US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets
https://media.wired.com/photos/666106d916423ddde0a11b15/master/pass/Susan-Rice-AI-Secrets-Business-1243253392.jpg
Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets.
https://www.wired.com/story/national-security-experts-warn-ai-giants-secrets/

2024-06-06 20:00:16

OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT
https://media.wired.com/photos/6661d484e7f0257b8be9c3d5/master/pass/ChatGPT-Mind-Business-2R5EGF2.jpg
Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-offers-a-peek-inside-the-guts-of-chatgpt/

2024-06-06 18:15:10

Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
https://media.wired.com/photos/6660e614d70daae6d5bdf882/master/pass/Chatbot-Teamwork-Fast-Forward-Business-105782160.jpg
Experiments show that asking AI chatbots to work together on a problem can compensate for some of their shortcomings. WIRED enlisted two bots to help plan this article.
https://www.wired.com/story/chatbot-teamwork-makes-the-ai-dream-work/

2024-06-06 14:15:10

Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews
https://media.wired.com/photos/6660e7b37e8c12296e4ac321/master/pass/Google-AI-Overviews-Gadget-Lab-Gear-GettyImages-1319809159.jpg
This week, we discuss the bumpy first few weeks of Google’s AI-powered summaries, and why the new feature is making us sweat.
https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-646/

2024-06-06 13:15:10

Apple WWDC 2024: What to Expect for Software and Hardware
https://media.wired.com/photos/6660e7f56e8f6725ef8a19a2/master/pass/WWDC-What-to-Expect-Gear-GettyImages-1258464774.jpg
The annual Worldwide Developers Conference starts Monday, June 10. Here are the new features, AI-powered and otherwise, potentially coming to your devices.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-wwdc-2024-what-to-expect/

2024-06-06 09:15:11

How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
https://media.wired.com/photos/66609b9f51e70775068bb362/master/pass/Eliot%20higgins_Portraits%20Selection_The%20Big%[email protected]
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-lead-army-of-digital-sleuths-age-of-ai/

2024-06-06 00:30:09

Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid
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Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.
https://www.wired.com/story/marc-andreessen-online-safety-enemy-walled-gardens/

2024-06-05 12:45:10

Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work
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Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives?
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-results-copied-my-original-work/

2024-06-04 18:15:11

Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco
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Data on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-cut-back-ai-overviews-before-pizza-glue/

2024-06-04 17:30:12

OpenAI Employees Warn of a Culture of Risk and Retaliation
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An open letter signed by former and current employees at OpenAI and other AI giants calls for whistleblower protections as the artificial intelligence rapidly evolves.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-right-to-warn-open-letter-ai-risk/

2024-06-04 17:15:10

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
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Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.
https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/

2024-06-04 13:15:10

AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It?
https://media.wired.com/photos/665e41499c3c01816e236561/master/pass/Microsoft-Copilot-AI-in-the-Workplace-2WD47TD.jpg
Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and security considerations you should know about.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-workplace-privacy-security/

2024-06-03 23:30:14

The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant
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The idea of an AI beauty pageant might seem laughable or grotesque, depending on who you ask. But the World AI Creator Awards reflects something deeper about modern influencer culture.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-beauty-pageant-world-ai-creator-awards/

2024-06-03 14:00:16

The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here
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Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how provide them enough power to meet AI's demands.
https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-datacenter-energy-power-grid/

2024-05-31 22:30:13

Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That's How AI Works
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Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still screw up sometimes.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-broken-how-ai-works/

2024-05-31 20:30:13

It's the AI Election Year
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With over 60 countries holding elections in 2024, deepfakes and robocalls are being used to manipulate voters across the world. WIRED is tracking every instance of AI interference during this critical election year.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-election-2024/

2024-05-31 04:15:07

Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up
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Liz Reid, Google’s head of search, said in a blog post that the company had made adjustments to its new AI search feature after screenshots of its errors went viral.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-issues/

2024-05-31 00:30:12

Foreign Influence Campaigns Don't Know How to Use AI Yet Either
https://media.wired.com/photos/6658cbeb1ce19f11ef8b2f8a/master/pass/OpenAI-Covert-Propaganda-Report-Politics-2144483773.jpg
OpenAI has released its first report, which details how bad actors in Russia, China, and beyond are using AI to spread propaganda. (Poorly.)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-threat-report-china-russia-ai-propaganda/

2024-05-30 18:15:10

Chatbots Are Entering the Stone Age
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Anthropic and other big AI startups are teaching chatbots “tool use,” to make them more useful in the workplace.
https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-are-entering-the-stone-age/

2024-05-30 13:45:10

2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election
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AI is already being used and abused in elections around the world. From passive income scams to dead men endorsing their successors, fiction is proving stranger than reality.
https://www.wired.com/story/2024-is-the-year-of-generative-ai-elections/

2024-05-30 11:15:10

How AI Is Impacting the 2024 Elections
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More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, WIRED will be tracking every instance of AI's use in and around those campaigns.
https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-global-elections/

2024-05-28 15:15:11

Chromebooks Will Get Gemini and New Google AI Features
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Google is bringing Gemini and a slew of AI-powered features to ChromeOS, and there are about seven new Chromebooks coming this year.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-brings-gemini-to-chrome-os-and-chromebooks/

2024-05-28 12:15:11

Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
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The US military aims to maintain its dominance by building autonomous attack drones that collaborate with humans and overwhelm defenses in swarms.
https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-is-building-out-the-pentagons-dream-of-deadly-drone-swarms/

2024-05-26 13:30:13

Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell
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Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles—though not yet those of our universe.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-starts-to-sift-through-string-theorys-near-endless-possibilities/

2024-05-26 13:15:10

2024-05-24 13:00:16

Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI Feud Makes Her an Uncanny Folk Hero
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Scarlett Johansson’s talents once made her the ideal person to voice an AI. Now, she’s the perfect human to face off against it.
https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johanssons-openai-feud-makes-her-an-uncanny-folk-hero/

2024-05-23 18:15:10

Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing
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Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts. The technique could open up new use cases for AI.
https://www.wired.com/story/pocket-sized-ai-models-unlock-new-era-of-computing/

2024-05-23 13:45:10

Inside the Reluctant Fight to Ban Deepfake Ads
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Without new rules, campaigns could hoodwink voters with AI-generated ads. And no one really seems to be taking the threat seriously.
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-lukewarm-fight-to-ban-deepfake-ads/

2024-05-22 15:15:10

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’
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African workers who label AI data or screen social posts for US tech giants are calling on President Biden to raise their plight with Kenya's president, William Ruto, who visits the US this week.
https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/

2024-05-22 12:45:10

What Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI Could Look Like in Court
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If Scarlett Johansson pursues legal action against OpenAI for giving ChatGPT a voice she calls “eerily similar to mine,” she might claim the company breached her right to publicity.
https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johansson-v-openai-could-look-like-in-court/

2024-05-21 18:15:10

Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads
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Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It's a test of how the company's biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-overviews-ads/

2024-05-21 17:15:10

AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
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What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-black-box-ai-research-neurons-features/

2024-05-21 15:45:10

Adobe's AI-Powered Generative Remove Feature in Lightroom Erases Unsightly Objects in Seconds
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Taking a cue from Google's Magic Eraser, Adobe's new trick improves on existing tools with the help of generative AI.
https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-lightroom-generative-remove/

2024-05-21 15:15:11

The US Is Forming a Global AI Safety Network With Key Allies
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US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo says the US is collaborating with other countries including the UK, Japan, and Canada to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-forming-global-ai-safety-network-key-allies/

2024-05-21 01:45:10

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT
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In a scorching statement, Scarlett Johansson claims that after she turned down an invitation to voice ChatGPT, OpenAI brazenly mimicked her distinctive tones anyway.
https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johansson-says-openai-ripped-off-her-voice-for-chatgpt/

2024-05-20 21:15:10

I Make AI Models to Sell Real People Clothes
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Working at an AI modeling agency means teaching pixels to smize—and filtering out the people with three heads.
https://www.wired.com/story/your-next-job-ai-modeling-agent/

2024-05-20 12:15:10

Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve
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India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a clone.
https://www.wired.com/story/indian-elections-ai-deepfakes/

2024-05-17 17:00:16

OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
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The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/

2024-05-17 15:15:10

It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype
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Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there’s plenty more disruption to come.
https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-believe-the-ai-hype/

2024-05-17 00:00:16

How Google's AI Overviews Work, and How to Turn Them Off (You Can't)
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Google's new Gemini-powered search experience is rolling out to users in the US. Here's some advice on how to navigate it. And if you want to turn AI Overviews off, too bad.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-how-to-use-how-to-turn-off/

2024-05-16 12:15:11

Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
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Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.
https://www.wired.com/story/maven-social-network-that-eliminates-followers-and-stress/

2024-05-15 22:00:15

Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots
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The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.
https://www.wired.com/story/prepare-to-get-manipulated-by-emotionally-expressive-chatbots/

2024-05-15 12:15:10

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn't Pretty
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Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

2024-05-15 02:45:10

OpenAI's Chief AI Wizard Ilya Sutskever Is Leaving the Company
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One day after OpenAI showed off an all-new, emotional, version of ChatGPT, the company announced that chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company. He voted to fire CEO Sam Altman in November.
https://www.wired.com/story/openais-chief-ai-wizard-ilya-sutskever-is-leaving-the-company/

2024-05-14 20:15:10

With Gemini on Android, Google Points to Mobile Computing’s Future—and Past
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Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-gemini-on-android-circle-to-search/

2024-05-14 14:15:10

Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It
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The best thing about brain-melting software like ChatGPT? It doesn’t feel remorse.
https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-totally-shameless/

2024-05-14 03:00:14

With OpenAI's Release of GPT-4o, Is ChatGPT Plus Still Worth It?
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While the newest AI model from OpenAI, GPT-4o, is available to users for free, ChatGPT Plus subscribers still get access to more prompts and the newest features.
https://www.wired.com/story/with-gpt-4o-is-chatgpt-plus-still-worth-it/

2024-05-14 00:15:11

I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole Movie
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has seemingly cited Her as an inspiration for ChatGPT’s conversational voice assistant update. Maybe don't!
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-4o-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-her-movie/

2024-05-13 21:45:10

Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It
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PauseAI protests are underway in London, New York, San Francisco, and across the globe. Its members have wildly different opinions on what the group should do next.
https://www.wired.com/story/protesters-pause-ai-split-stop/

2024-05-13 20:45:10

OpenAI's GPT-4o Model Gives ChatGPT a Snappy, Flirty Upgrade
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Prepare for ChatGPT to get more emotional. OpenAI demonstrated upgrades that make the chatbot capable of snappier conversations, and showed the AI helper picking up on and expressing emotional cues
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-4o-model-gives-chatgpt-a-snappy-flirty-upgrade/

2024-05-13 19:15:10

Internal Emails Show How a Controversial Gun-Detection System Found Its Way to NYC
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NYC mayor Eric Adams wants to test Evolv’s gun-detection tech in subway stations—despite the company saying it’s not designed for that environment. Emails obtained by WIRED show how the company still found an in.
https://www.wired.com/story/evolv-gun-detection-nyc-subways-emails/

2024-05-13 12:45:10

Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard
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Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT.
https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-doesnt-make-hardware-less-hard/

2024-05-09 18:15:10

6 Practical Tips for Using Anthropic's Claude Chatbot
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Anthropic recently launched an iOS app for its Claude chatbot. We asked the company’s head of product design how to get the most out of the AI helper.
https://www.wired.com/story/six-practical-tips-for-using-anthropic-claude-chatbot/

2024-05-08 21:15:10

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn
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OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-exploring-how-to-responsibly-generate-ai-porn/

2024-05-08 17:15:10

Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA
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Demis Hassabis, Google’s artificial intelligence chief, says the AlphaFold software that revolutionized the study of proteins has received a significant upgrade that will advance drug development.
https://www.wired.com/story/alphafold-3-google-deepmind-ai-protein-structure-dna/

2024-05-08 14:15:07

Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know
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People are using AI at work whether their bosses want them to or not, new data shows. But it’s desperation, not innovation, driving the change.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-workers-burnout-microsoft-linkedin/

2024-05-07 21:00:16

OpenAI Offers an Olive Branch to Artists Wary of Feeding AI Algorithms
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ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-olive-branch-artists-ai-algorithms/

2024-05-07 20:15:09

Met Gala Deepfakes Are Flooding Social Media
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AI-generated images of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and more celebrities in Met Gala refinement took over X and other platforms Monday night.
https://www.wired.com/story/met-gala-deepfakes-katy-perry-rihanna/

2024-05-06 17:30:13

The US Is Cracking Down on Synthetic DNA
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Synthetic DNA could be used to spark a pandemic. A move by President Biden aims to create new standards for the safety and security of mail-order genetic material.
https://www.wired.com/story/synthetic-dna-us-biden-regulation/

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2024-05-04 12:45:10

A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns
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Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news.
https://www.wired.com/story/border-surveillance-india-assassination-project-nimbus-security-roundup/

2024-05-03 15:15:10

How Scrappy Cryptominer CoreWeave Transformed Into the Multibillion-Dollar Backbone of the AI Boom
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CoreWeave, once a small player in crypto, is now a $19 billion unicorn that provides GPUs to AI developers. Its frenetic culture and rising competition now pose challenges, former employees say.
https://www.wired.com/story/coreweave-scrappy-cryptominer-multibillion-dollar-ai/

2024-05-03 11:15:10

These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
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“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-boys-scammers-facebook-telegram-tiktok-youtube/