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How does a language model decide which questions it will engage with and which it deems inappropriate? Why will it encourage some actions and discourage others? What “values” might a language model have?

An AI startup is using a constitution to governing its tech.

For the last four decades, technology has been mostly a force for greater inequality and a shrinking middle class. But new empirical evidence suggests that the age of AI could be different. We speak to MIT's David Autor, one of the greatest labor economists in the world, who envisions a future where we use AI to make a wider array of workers much better at a whole range of jobs and help rebuild the middle class.This episode was produced by Dave Blanchard and edited by Molly Messick. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Katherine Silva. Jess Jiang is Planet Money's acting executive producer.Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

The emergence of ChatGPT this school year has put issues about the use of artificial intelligence front and center in schools.

GPT-4 will ‘entirely automate away’ certain jobs and could be used for election disinformation, Sam Altman told senators.

Artificial intelligence is creating opportunities for mourners to reconnect with loved ones who’ve already passed away. The technology, while controversial, ...

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In just a month, the AI chatbot has boosted Genies' productivity across its teams. But not all employees are taking it seriously, the founder said.

Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen. He shares the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools -- including the potential of a personal AI tutor for every student and an AI teaching assistant for every teacher -- and demos some exciting new features for their educational chatbot, Khanmigo.

“And now, the collected wisdom of Snoop Dogg on AI and existential risk: "Like, what the f**k?"”

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“Keenious is an AI-powered app that will supercharge your academic reading and writing. It's your personal research assistant inside MS Word and will save you a lot of time and labor. But most academics don't know much about it. Here's how to get started on Keenious:”

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AI to help high school Social Studies teachers assess written assignments. Immediate feedback for students, time savings for teachers. Use built-in assignments or add your own. Full support for regular and AP US / World / European History, US Gov & Pol, and Civics.

Artificial intelligence models have found their way into many people’s lives, for work and for fun.

OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, have authored a research paper that tries to predict the impact of AI on the job market.

A study found the lowest-skilled customer-service workers reaped the greatest benefits when AI was rolled out at a Fortune 500 software firm over the course of a year.

An interactive explanation of how language models learn to mimic language, from Shakespeare to Star Trek.

The definition is ‘evolving,’ but expect mastery of the tool to be as common as Excel in the coming years, one expert says.

Packback will enhance its existing plagiarism checker to be able to detect AI-generated text from sources like ChatGPT.

This week I decided to try an experiment where GPT-4 would predict the future. I'll explain the setup, why the problem is difficult for normal prediction problems, the result of the experiment, and what it means for your future with AI. The Setup My college had nominated me for a university mentoring award. But the award ceremony was at the same time as one of my classes. I asked if I needed to be there, and an administrator said, "If you win, you definitely want to be there."

Large language models like ChatGPT and Bard are energy-intensive and require massive server farms for training. Cooling those data centers also uses a lot of water.

With over five billion images, LAION has become central to the future of artificial intelligence — and a growing debate over how to regulate it.

The artist says she’ll share profits from AI songs.

The first wave of academic research applying ChatGPT to the world of finance is arriving — and judging by early results, the hype of the past few months is justified.

People are already adopting the technology.

Artificial intelligence models have found their way into many people’s lives, for work and for fun.

New research tests how accurately the AI tool could decipher "hawkish" or "dovish" signals from the central bank.

This summit showcased the latest research in AI & education from Stanford faculty and researchers, examined how AI can be used to advance human learning through new pedagogies, new modalities of assessment, new foundation models, and more. In doing so, the summit asked the question of how AI can transform teaching and learning in an ethical, equitable, and safe manner.