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It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies’ generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tech stocks tanked Tuesday, regarding broader fears that […]

Are AI toys the future of playtime or a risk to emotional development? A collaboration between Mattel and OpenAI raises sobering questions.

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

AI student agents vs AI educator agents, fight!

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

In an AI gold rush, those selling the proverbial pickaxes are surest to win: cloud companies provide scalable managed computational resources as a subscr

“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed onto users, and UX practice is worse for it.

Big tech companies are becoming infrastructure companies—just like the steel and railroad giants of old.

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that subject, Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis asked him about Artificial Intelligence and how it connects with the extraordinary lure of language.

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Over recent weeks, controversy has surfaced over research publications claiming to show statistical evidence that generative AI has beneficial effects on learning.…

Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

In this extended briefing, “TL;DR” = “Totally Legit; Def. Read” because we review “The AI Con,” the spicy new book ready to rattle the broligarchy. Plus, the authors answer ESC KEY .CO’s questions about creative work — giving you something hot to talk about at your next power lunch, as ever. *Wink.*

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Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

A collection of zines from the DAIR Institute

Remarks from an in-person debate, 'L’IA en question, questions à l’IA', a two-day event at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on May 24/25. The event focused on debates about the role of AI in contemporary society.

A trio of specialists discusses how artists can respond to the environmental cost of generative AI with Diane Drubay

Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

A response to UNESCO's call on AI and the Future of Education