The AI book wave and how a Halifax publisher is resisting it
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Forward Deployed Engineering: Delivering Business Outcomes with AI
Over the past few years, increasingly customers have shifted from asking “help us migrate and build data pipelines”…
ChatGPT: a billion monthly app users despite souring public AI sentiment
Protesters gather with banners and placards outside the offices of Google Deepmind at a protest organized by PauseAI…
Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
Humanoids aren’t quite ready to replace factory workers, but the industry can’t wait. Faced with labor shortages, manufacturers…
Meta’s Edits app is getting an AI assistant and a desktop version
Meta on Wednesday previewed upcoming additions to its video-editing app Edits at an invite-only creator event in L.A.,…
Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real
The eye condition bixonimania doesn’t exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricated—despite…
Pokémon Go data was used to help train AI systems being developed for military drones
Remember Pokémon Go, the game that had millions of people running all over the world to find and…
Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
In the middle of New York City’s Times Square, a massive, inflatable effigy of billionaire Elon Musk towered…
Inflatable Elon Musk Appears in Times Square, Begs to be Popped like the AI Bubble
Plenty of people have said that Elon Musk is full of hot air. This version of him actually…
Eaton moves one step closer to becoming a cleaner bet on the AI boom
A new deal from Eaton gives investors exactly what they want: a leaner company with greater exposure to…
My AI Opinions – by Scott Alexander
I recently had a minor spat over someone misinterpreting my AI beliefs (see section marked “Update” at the…
Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first…