AI
Synthetic people are proving surprisingly useful
From chatbots to clinical trials, digital twins are suggesting at least one good answer to the question of what generative AI is for
AI
AI
Publishers gamble over AI licensing deals
Is it smarter to take the deal they can get — or fight it out in court?
Meta
How Meta is paving the way for synthetic social networks
Five ways of thinking about Llama 3, its latest large language model
AI
Humane’s folly and the AI hype hangover
The tech industry's overpromising about generative AI is starting to catch up with it
Perplexity
The ad model is coming to AI
Perplexity’s plan to add sponsored questions could be the future of chatbots — if it doesn’t destroy users’ trust
AI
The indie AI companies are falling apart
From Stability to Inflection, would-be challengers to the giants are failing to execute
AI
The rise of mediocre AI
It only kind of works. It’s everywhere anyway
Google hits pause on Gemini’s people pictures
After a diversity initiative proved disastrous, it’s time to loosen chatbot guardrails
AI
The AI-generated propaganda is working
Nearly half of people found influence campaigns written by GPT-3 effective, a new study finds
AI
Google’s next top model arrives
The company finally has an answer to GPT-4 — but OpenAI is about to change the questions
AI
Scenes from a dying web
X
The Taylor Swift deepfakes are a warning
For years, researchers predicted a huge wave of AI-powered harassment. Now it's all happening on X
Meta
Meta bets bigger on AI
The company plans to build best-in-class models and give them away for free. So how will it profit?
Spotify
How platforms killed Pitchfork
Critics were once our best guides to new music. Then came streaming and AI