The rise of chatbot “friends”
Can you truly be friends with a chatbot? If you find yourself asking that question, it’s probably too late. In ...
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, began a new job in 2023 as the deputy director of a project ...
The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?
There’s a thought experiment that has taken on almost mythic status among a certain group of technologists: If you build ...
AI can use your computer now. Should it?
The first time I heard about AI agents, I thought they could monitor your computer use, anticipate your needs, and ...
Using ChatGPT to write an email? Sure. But an obituary?
When his grandmother died about two years ago, Jebar King, the writer of his family, was tasked with drafting her ...
DeepSeek is bad for Silicon Valley. But it might be great for you.
When it comes to AI, I’d consider myself a casual user and a curious one. It’s been creeping into my ...
OpenAI’s new anti-jobs program
On Tuesday, I was thinking I might write a story about the implications of the Trump administration’s repeal of the ...
Biden Administration Adopts Rules to Guide A.I.’s Global Spread
The Biden administration issued sweeping rules on Monday governing how A.I. chips and models can be shared with foreign countries, ...
It’s getting harder to measure just how good AI is getting
Toward the end of 2024, I offered a take on all the talk about whether AI’s “scaling laws” were hitting ...
The 10(ish) most read Future Perfect stories of 2024
It’s that time of year. As Future Perfect has in the past, we’re rounding up our most read stories of ...
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