Tech: AI & Machine Learning

Once praised for its generous social safety net, the country now collects troves of data on welfare claimants.

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.

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2dumb2destroy is a ChatGPT bot trained to be a doofus — and it’s fantastic.

What happens when your wingman is ChatGPT.

Artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans. Soon, these engines of wow will transform how we design just about everything.

Listen to this episode from Radiotopia Presents: Bot Love on Spotify. When it comes to bots and their human creators, all kinds of relationships can develop. Some are from users like Julie, who needed a friend and made one with the help of an app. Then there are developers like Eugenia, who lost a real-life friend named Roman and created a bot from his memory. As it turns out, there’s a long history of people like Eugenia — people who create technology to help us grieve, love, and grow. Bot Love is written by Anna Oakes, Mark Pagán, and Diego Senior. Hosted and produced by Anna Oakes and Diego Senior. Mark Pagán is the senior producer. Curtis Fox is the story editor. Sound design by Terence Bernardo and Rebecca Seidel. Bei Wang and Katrina Carter are the associate producers. Cover art by Diego Patiño. Theme song by Maria Linares. Transcripts by Erin Wade. Bot Love was created by Diego Senior. Support for this project was provided in part by the Ideas Lab at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University. Special thanks to The Moth, Lauren Arora Hutchinson, Director of the Ideas Lab, and Josh Wilcox at the Brooklyn Podcasting Studio, where we recorded these episodes. For Radiotopia Presents, Mark Pagán is the senior producer. Yooree Losordo is the managing producer. Audrey Mardavich is the Executive Producer. It’s a production of PRX’s Radiotopia and part of Radiotopia Presents, a podcast feed that debuts limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices. For La Central Podcasts, Diego Senior is the Executive Producer. Learn more about Bot Love at radiotopiapresents.fm and discover more shows from across the Radiotopia network at radiotopia.fm.

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Antiquity Greek myths of Hephaestus and Daedalus incorporated the idea of intelligent robots and artificial beings like Pandora. These “automaton” beings such as Talos would protect Crete from invaders. Ancient Greeks spoke of the idea of biotechne, how biological phenomena such as aging can be altered with technology of humans. Through their myths and stories, … Continue reading Antiquity →

Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …

Generates delightful UI designs from a text prompt in an instant. Galileo AI combines UI components, images, and content to help you design faster.

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A video screening and talk on the role of human creativity in a design world that’s increasingly enmeshed with machines. In just a few short months, generative AI platforms have taken the world by…

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In the past year algorithms got a lot better at generating illustrations, art, and photo-real scenes. Next up? Video.

The AI chatbot has stoked fears of an educational apocalypse. Some teachers see it as the reboot education sorely needs.

The articulate new chatbot has won over the internet and shown how engaging conversational AI can be—even when it makes stuff up.

When large language models fall short, the consequences can be serious. Why is it so hard to acknowledge that?

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The dreamy picture-editing AI is a nightmare waiting to happen.

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.

The boom in generative AI art is creating an aesthetic movement—one that looks oddly familiar.

Neurons were taught to play the classic video game Pong. The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.

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