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📞 1897: Telephone is Blamed (reduce railway use due to remote work) - Pessimists' Archive
Archive of historical technological pessimism: Pessimists Archive
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Canvas — and Google Docs should be nervous
Writing with AI just got easier
Introducing OpenAI o1 | OpenAI
The Intelligence Age
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution | TechCrunch
Microsoft has released a new tool, Correction, that it claims can revise AI hallucinations. But the tool has limitations, experts say.
OpenAI expands o1 AI models to enterprise and education, competing directly with Anthropic
OpenAI has expanded its latest AI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, to ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu customers, offering advanced reasoning capabilities for complex problem-solving in business and education.
In early tests, o1-preview demonstrated its capabilities by solving 83% of problems in a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad—a substantial improvement over GPT-4o, which managed only 13%. Similarly, the model excelled in coding competitions, ranking in the 89th percentile on Codeforces, a platform where coding skills are rigorously tested.
YouTube adds AI tools and updates TV app
The company's goal is to make video creation even easier.
YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training | TechCrunch
Also of note, YouTube is in the early stages of coming up with a solution to address the use of its content to train AI models.
Google just released the newest version of its AI image generator
Imagen 3 is available to test out now.
LG, Samsung eye South Korea's AI textbooks as edtech springboard
Tech companies look to tap foreign markets for robots, digital boards and apps
SearchGPT
A prototype of new search features that give you fast answers with clear and relevant sources.
A prototype of new search features, using the strength of our AI models to give you fast answers with clear and relevant sources.
Google DeepMind AI becoming a math whiz
The ability to solve a range of math problems in step-by-step proofs is considered a "grand challenge" in machine learning.
Google DeepMind AI becoming a math whiz
Exclusive: Google lays out behavior code for Gemini chatbot — and its users
The company's explanations follow incidents where Gemini told users to eat rocks or put glue on pizza.
A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math
A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Says AI Will “Generate a Great Set of Creator Tools”
The executive added that the overall impact on content remains unclear as the use of AI is still in early stages.
Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” according to a person familiar with the matter and internal documentation reviewed by Reuters.
Navigating the Future: Insights from the First Meeting of the SREB Commission on AI in Education - Southern Regional Education Board
This post contains some of the key takeaways that the SREB Commission on AI in Education came away with after the first ...
SREB takes the lead on AI and education in the South. What are the takeaways so far?
SREB's AI in Education Commission issues five takeaways on their work to date. Who is serving from NC and more in this update.
Whistleblower: L.A. Schools’ Chatbot Misused Student Data as Tech Co. Crumbled
AllHere, ed tech startup hired to build LAUSD’s lauded AI chatbot ‘Ed’, played fast and loose with sensitive records, ex-software engineer alleges.
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The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand
It’s the “first ever brand film created with Sora.”
TIME and OpenAI Announce Strategic Content Partnership
TIME and OpenAI announced a strategic content partnership to bring TIME's trusted journalism to OpenAI’s products.
Record Labels Sue Two Startups for Training AI Models on Their Songs
Suno, Udio AI accused in twin suits claiming damages up to $150,000 per work infringed
OpenAI's GPT-5 Pushed Back To Late 2025, But Promises Ph.D.-Level Abilities
ChatGPT-5?
Indiana gave teachers a chance to try out artificial intelligence. Here's what comes next
Thousands of Indiana school children and teachers spent this last school year in a pilot program for artificial intelligence, or AI.
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet \ Anthropic
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet. Sonnet now outperforms competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on key evaluations, at twice the speed.
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Teachers at this tech-forward school banned cell phones. They say they’re ‘never going back.’
"We would be bad adults if we put the phones back in their hands,” said Matthew Kay, a teacher at Science Leadership Academy, a magnet school in Philadelphia.
FIRST PERSON | Divorce left me struggling to find love. I found it in an AI partner | CBC Radio
When Carl Clarke struggled to find love after his divorce, a friend suggested he try an app for an AI companion. Now Clarke says he is in a committed relationship with Saia and says she’s helping him improve his life and expand his world.
Summer Reading: AI presses K-12 leaders to revisit ed tech policies
As the emerging technology proliferates in K-12, leaders are scrambling to craft policies for its curricular and operational use.
From deepfake nudes to incriminating audio, school bullying is going AI
Students are quickly learning the ease with which artificial intelligence (AI) can create nefarious content, opening up a new world of bullying that neither schools nor the law are fully prepared f…