Your loneliness is our business: The multi-million-dollar industry of social isolation
A sense of being chronically alone is spreading and leading to increased health costs and productivity loss — as well as big bucks for some companies
‘All eyes on Rafah’: The political meme, AI and the enshittification of the Internet
A meme generated with artificial intelligence has gone viral, providing a warning about a digital environment that will be dominated by the automatic generation of content
Kilnam Chon, computer scientist: ‘AI will be smarter than us in 30 years at most’
Known as the father of the Internet in South Korea, the expert warns of the consequences of AI by comparing humans to monkeys: ‘We can control monkeys, but they can’t control us. If the AI becomes smarter, it will become the human being and we will become the monkey’
Generative AI digs the graves of traditional search engines and virtual assistants
The latest advances are aimed at creating more human-like systems that are capable of planning and executing complex tasks as well as, or better than, people
Linguists, biologists and publicists, the new experts setting up as ‘prompts engineers’ for ChatGPT
Generative AI is fertile ground for professionals without prior computer science knowledge to join the technological revolution
Study concludes that ChatGPT responds as if it understands the emotions or thoughts of its interlocutor
The results of the research is that these models perform as well as, or better, than people when asked questions that involve putting themselves in the mind of the speaker
Apple enters the generative AI race
Analysts expect a total update to Siri and an agreement with OpenAI or Google to integrate chatbots into the iPhone
Tech companies break earnings records despite regulatory battle
Profits at Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta shoot up 38% thanks to artificial intelligence
Kashmir Hill: ‘They shouldn’t be collecting photos from social media without people’s consent, but they keep doing it and nobody’s stopping them’
In her latest book, the ‘New York Times’ reporter explores the challenges posed by a technology that even Google and Facebook decided not to use
Ukraine launches offensive against the Russian oil industry
Swarms of long-range drone bombs have damaged a dozen fuel refinery plants deep inside enemy territory, causing a disruption of up to 15% in Russia’s production of crude oil fuels
An invention to silence reggaeton with artificial intelligence
Reggaeton Be Gone, a machine invented by Argentine citizen Roni Bandini, blocks Bluetooth speakers whenever they play songs from one of the most popular music genres in the world
The small Caribbean island making a fortune from artificial intelligence
The .ai internet domain for Anguilla is attracting tech companies interested in using the domain extension for their AI services
Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine: ‘We want to get as many people as we can out of the front lines and put in machines’
Alexander Kamyshin says Kyiv has already tested unmanned ground devices on the front lines that ‘kept the Russians at bay for 40 days’
A more humane education in the era of artificial intelligence
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The opportunities offered by AI are evident but before we act we must think and debate, both about those aspects that we do not understand well, as well as those matters that we don’t yet know we don’t know
Machine versus organoid
The war between living and silicon brains has raged since the days of Kasparov and ‘Deep Blue’, and it’s only intensified over the last few years
2024, the year of the human factor
Barack Obama’s Christmas greeting gives off a powerful message of vindication of the simple, of a return to the essential
What will we do after the end of work?
Automation and advances in artificial intelligence are posing the enormous challenge of a labor revolution in which machines threaten millions of jobs with obsolescence
Jane Mansbridge, the philosopher of friendship
The American thinker and activist reflects on 50 years of research, which is centered on democracy and power
Jean-Jacques Hublin, paleoanthropologist: ‘Evolution is the story of a great extinction’
In a conversation with EL PAÍS, one of the most respected paleoanthropologists in the world offers a heterodox look at his work as a researcher. He explains that prehistory brings up questions that are relevant to the present, from issues such as climate change to our relationship with technology
Student of Games: The algorithm that wins at chess and poker
A group of experts has developed an artificial intelligence program that can win any game by simply learning the rules
Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, after 118 days of the actors’ strike: ‘I really worried that I wouldn’t live through it’
The actress, famous for her role in the 1990s series ‘The Nanny’, has become the face of the performers’ union during the four-month stoppage
AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for action
The proliferation of deepfake child sexual abuse images could bog investigators down trying to rescue children who turn out to be virtual characters
Víctor Gómez Pin, philosopher: ‘I don’t think an algorithm can conceptually reflect on Kant’s categorical imperative’
The Barcelona thinker analyzes what he terms as the defeat of the left and artificial intelligences, which, he doubts, will be able to ‘produce something that science doesn’t already know’
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice
In a message on her social media accounts, the actress and screenwriter once again positioned herself in favor of the Hollywood strike, saying her dad ‘definitely would’ve been out there fighting the good fight for art and artists’
Exposed in the face of artificial intelligence
When we’re able to analyze the risks of technology, only then are we able to limit and manage them through regulations
How deepfake technology has spread across the world: ‘We can all be victims. The internet is a jungle’
AI faking has leapt from images to voice, text, documents, and facial recognition to become one of the most worrying emerging vectors of fraud
Chatbots sometimes make things up: Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?
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Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it’s now a problem for every business, organization and high school student trying to get a “generative AI” system to compose documents and get work done