The future of generative AI is niche, not generalized
The relentless hype surrounding generative AI in the past few months has been accompanied by equally loud anguish over the supposed perils — just look at the open letter calling for a pause in AI experiments. This tumult risks blinding us to more immediate risks — think sustainability and bias — and clouds our ability…
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Exquisite bullshitters
Artist Ariel Aberg-Riger is author of America Redux: Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History.
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A Cambridge Analytica-style scandal for AI is coming
Can you imagine a car company putting a new vehicle on the market without built-in safety features? Unlikely, isn’t it? But what AI companies are doing is a bit like releasing race cars without seatbelts or fully working brakes, and figuring things out as they go. This approach is now getting them in trouble. For…
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EmTech Digital begins May 2
EmTech Digital, MIT Technology Review’s signature AI conference, is May 2-3, 2023. This year’s event looks at the game-changing power of generative AI, the technology, and the legal implications of generated content. Leaders from OpenAI, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, and more are expected to discuss the future of AI. Join in-person on the MIT campus or online…
Read MoreNew ways to manage your data in ChatGPT
You can now turn off chat history and easily choose whether your conversations will be used to train our models
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Artificial intelligence is infiltrating health care. We shouldn’t let it make all the decisions.
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. Would you trust medical advice generated by artificial intelligence? It’s a question I’ve been thinking over this week, in view of yet more headlines proclaiming that AI technologies can diagnose a range…
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OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it
OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy and a slew of investigations in other EU countries. If it fails, it could face hefty fines, be forced to delete data, or even be banned. But experts have told MIT Technology Review that it will…
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Generative AI risks concentrating Big Tech’s power. Here’s how to stop it
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. If regulators don’t act now, the generative AI boom will concentrate Big Tech’s power even further. That’s the central argument of a new report from research institute AI Now. And it makes sense. To…
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Banning ChatGPT will do more harm than good
The release of ChatGPT has sent shock waves through the halls of higher education. Universities have rushed to release guidelines on how it can be used in the classroom. Professors have taken to social media to share a spectrum of AI policies. And students—whether or not they’ll admit it—have cautiously experimented with the idea of allowing…
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AI literacy might be ChatGPT’s biggest lesson for schools
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This year millions of people have tried—and been wowed by— artificial-intelligence systems. That’s in no small part thanks to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. When it launched last November, the chatbot became an instant…
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