Please don’t embarrass us, robots.
Chatbots can write poems in the voice of Shakespeare. So why are phone keyboards still thr wosrt?
Our relationship to writing is about to change forever; it may not end well.
Will endless “scaling” of our current language models really bring true machine intelligence?
Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.
Generative AI programs like ChatGPT threaten to revolutionize how disinformation spreads online.
How transformative are the new AI search tools? Are they a new Skynet or just a new Clippy?
On creating serviceable copy using ChatGPT
Chatbots can’t think outside the box, unleashing even more nonsense filler words onto the world.
Microsoft and Google believe chatbots will change search forever. So far, there’s no reason to believe the hype.
Tech companies certainly say so. The reality is much more dizzying.
Your work future could depend on how well you can talk to AI.
An AI version of the classic sitcom was funny—until it wasn’t.
Mastering games could be the first step to mastering real life.
Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.
The human brain could explain why AI programs are so good at writing grammatically superb nonsense.
AI-assisted internet posting is already in a race to the bottom.
And that’s how it should be.
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Buzzy products like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 will have to turn a profit eventually.