The US Is Forming a Global AI Safety Network With Key Allies

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US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo says the US is collaborating with other countries including the UK, Japan, and Canada to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-forming-global-ai-safety-network-key-allies/


Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT

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In a scorching statement, Scarlett Johansson claims that after she turned down an invitation to voice ChatGPT, OpenAI brazenly mimicked her distinctive tones anyway.

https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johansson-says-openai-ripped-off-her-voice-for-chatgpt/


I Make AI Models to Sell Real People Clothes

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Working at an AI modeling agency means teaching pixels to smize—and filtering out the people with three heads.

https://www.wired.com/story/your-next-job-ai-modeling-agent/


Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

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India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a clone.

https://www.wired.com/story/indian-elections-ai-deepfakes/


OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

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The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/


It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

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Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there’s plenty more disruption to come.

https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-believe-the-ai-hype/


How Google's AI Overviews Work, and How to Turn Them Off (You Can't)

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Google's new Gemini-powered search experience is rolling out to users in the US. Here's some advice on how to navigate it. And if you want to turn AI Overviews off, too bad.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-how-to-use-how-to-turn-off/


Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress

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Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.

https://www.wired.com/story/maven-social-network-that-eliminates-followers-and-stress/


Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots

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The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.

https://www.wired.com/story/prepare-to-get-manipulated-by-emotionally-expressive-chatbots/


I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn't Pretty

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Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.

https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/


OpenAI's Chief AI Wizard Ilya Sutskever Is Leaving the Company

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One day after OpenAI showed off an all-new, emotional, version of ChatGPT, the company announced that chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company. He voted to fire CEO Sam Altman in November.

https://www.wired.com/story/openais-chief-ai-wizard-ilya-sutskever-is-leaving-the-company/


With Gemini on Android, Google Points to Mobile Computing’s Future—and Past

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Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-gemini-on-android-circle-to-search/


Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It

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The best thing about brain-melting software like ChatGPT? It doesn’t feel remorse.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-totally-shameless/


With OpenAI's Release of GPT-4o, Is ChatGPT Plus Still Worth It?

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While the newest AI model from OpenAI, GPT-4o, is available to users for free, ChatGPT Plus subscribers still get access to more prompts and the newest features.

https://www.wired.com/story/with-gpt-4o-is-chatgpt-plus-still-worth-it/


I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole Movie

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has seemingly cited Her as an inspiration for ChatGPT’s conversational voice assistant update. Maybe don't!

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-4o-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-her-movie/


Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It

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PauseAI protests are underway in London, New York, San Francisco, and across the globe. Its members have wildly different opinions on what the group should do next.

https://www.wired.com/story/protesters-pause-ai-split-stop/


OpenAI's GPT-4o Model Gives ChatGPT a Snappy, Flirty Upgrade

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Prepare for ChatGPT to get more emotional. OpenAI demonstrated upgrades that make the chatbot capable of snappier conversations, and showed the AI helper picking up on and expressing emotional cues

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-4o-model-gives-chatgpt-a-snappy-flirty-upgrade/


Internal Emails Show How a Controversial Gun-Detection System Found Its Way to NYC

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NYC mayor Eric Adams wants to test Evolv’s gun-detection tech in subway stations—despite the company saying it’s not designed for that environment. Emails obtained by WIRED show how the company still found an in.

https://www.wired.com/story/evolv-gun-detection-nyc-subways-emails/


Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard

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Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-doesnt-make-hardware-less-hard/


6 Practical Tips for Using Anthropic's Claude Chatbot

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Anthropic recently launched an iOS app for its Claude chatbot. We asked the company’s head of product design how to get the most out of the AI helper.

https://www.wired.com/story/six-practical-tips-for-using-anthropic-claude-chatbot/


OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

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OpenAI released draft guidelines for how  it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-exploring-how-to-responsibly-generate-ai-porn/


Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA

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Demis Hassabis, Google’s artificial intelligence chief, says the AlphaFold software that revolutionized the study of proteins has received a significant upgrade that will advance drug development.

https://www.wired.com/story/alphafold-3-google-deepmind-ai-protein-structure-dna/


Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know

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People are using AI at work whether their bosses want them to or not, new data shows. But it’s desperation, not innovation, driving the change.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-workers-burnout-microsoft-linkedin/


OpenAI Offers an Olive Branch to Artists Wary of Feeding AI Algorithms

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ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-olive-branch-artists-ai-algorithms/


Met Gala Deepfakes Are Flooding Social Media

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AI-generated images of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and more celebrities in Met Gala refinement took over X and other platforms Monday night.

https://www.wired.com/story/met-gala-deepfakes-katy-perry-rihanna/


The US Is Cracking Down on Synthetic DNA

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Synthetic DNA could be used to spark a pandemic. A move by President Biden aims to create new standards for the safety and security of mail-order genetic material.

https://www.wired.com/story/synthetic-dna-us-biden-regulation/


A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns

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Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news.

https://www.wired.com/story/border-surveillance-india-assassination-project-nimbus-security-roundup/


How Scrappy Cryptominer CoreWeave Transformed Into the Multibillion-Dollar Backbone of the AI Boom

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CoreWeave, once a small player in crypto, is now a $19 billion unicorn that provides GPUs to AI developers. Its frenetic culture and rising competition now pose challenges, former employees say.

https://www.wired.com/story/coreweave-scrappy-cryptominer-multibillion-dollar-ai/


These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes

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“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.

https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-boys-scammers-facebook-telegram-tiktok-youtube/


Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything?

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Philosopher Nick Bostrom popularized the idea superintelligent AI could erase humanity. His new book imagines a world in which algorithms have solved every problem.

https://www.wired.com/story/nick-bostrom-fear-ai-fix-everything/


The Unsexy Future of Generative AI Is Enterprise Apps

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Some startups that launched buzzy generative AI products are now narrowing their offerings to try to make them more useful to business clients.

https://www.wired.com/story/unsexy-future-generative-ai-enterprise-apps/


A Vast New Dataset Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

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Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM, have released a new AI detection model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of Bitcoin money laundering.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-crypto-tracing-model-money-laundering/


Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI

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Arati Prabhakar has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.

https://www.wired.com/story/arati-prabhakar-ostp-biden-science-tech-adviser/


AI Detectors for ChatGPT: Everything You Need to Know

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Is whatever you’re reading written by a human, or is it generated by artificial intelligence? This list of articles will help you understand AI text detection.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-detector-chatgpt/


How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature

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The latest update to OpenAI’s chatbot improves the AI’s ability to remember user details. It’s rolling out first to ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-chatgpt-memory-feature/


The Latest Online Culture War Is Humans vs. Algorithms

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Ever feel like Instagram or TikTok algorithms know you a bit too well? The backlash against automated curation is building, and new algorithm-free platforms are springing up.

https://www.wired.com/story/latest-online-culture-war-is-humans-vs-algorithms/


I'm a Boy. Does Playing Female Characters in Video Games Make Me Gay?

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WIRED's advice columnist answers questions about fantasy vs. reality.

https://www.wired.com/story/cloud-support-gender-avatar-video-games/


Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload

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Indeed and LinkedIn are incorporating more generative AI to improve the recruiting and job-hunting processes. Some recruiters are still unconvinced.

https://www.wired.com/story/recruiters-ai-application-overload/


I Tried These AI-Based Productivity Tools. Here’s What Happened

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Hoping to make life easier, I tested six AI-powered tools meant to help me write better and work smarter.

https://www.wired.com/story/6-ai-based-productivity-tools-tested/


Google Thinks It Can Cash In on Generative AI. Microsoft Already Has

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While both Alphabet and Microsoft boasted strong quarterly earnings, only one tech giant showed that its generative AI bet is starting to pay off.

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-google-earnings-generative-ai/


Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels

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Meta’s decision to give away powerful AI software for free could threaten the business models of OpenAI and Google.

https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-3-nipping-at-openais-heels/


Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram

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WIRED found thousands of ads running on Meta’s social platforms promoting sexually explicit “AI girlfriend" apps. Some human sex workers say the platform unfairly polices their own posts more harshly.

https://www.wired.com/story/ads-for-explicit-ai-girlfriends-swarming-facebook-and-instagram/


Rabbit's AI Assistant Is Here. And Soon a Camera Wearable Will Be Too

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WIRED went along to the company's launch event where customers picked up the very first R1s and learned of an inbound “all-seeing” accompanying AI device.

https://www.wired.com/story/rabbit-r1-launch-event-nyc/


A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI

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Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.

https://www.wired.com/story/jason-matheny-national-security-insider-dangers-of-ai/


The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK

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The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-biggest-deepfake-porn-website-is-now-blocked-in-the-uk/


How to Stop ChatGPT’s Voice Feature From Interrupting You

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ChatGPT’s conversation tools are fantastic—when the chatbot isn’t constantly talking over you. Try these tips for a better AI audio experience.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-chatgpt-talking-over-you/


The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem

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When The Tortured Poets Department leaked, some Taylor Swift fans swore it must be AI. Expect that to be a common refrain.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-taylor-swift-album-leaks-big-ai-problem/


Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3

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The open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta today is just the start, according to the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. He said a new, much larger version is in the works.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-already-training-a-more-powerful-sucessor-to-llama-3/


What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?

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AngryGF offers a perpetually enraged chatbot intended to teach men better communication skills. WIRED took it for a spin.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/


The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived

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Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams.

https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-boys-real-time-deepfake-scams/


The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot

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Before the dear old model could even power down, Boston Dynamics unleashed a stronger new Atlas robot that can move in ways us puny humans never can.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-atlas-robot-is-dead-long-live-the-atlas-robot/


How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright

Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosens-up-a-little-on-ai/


Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’

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Any dreams of a sweeping AI bill out of Congress are basically a hallucination.

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ai-regulation-bill/


No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs

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Some businesses are replacing people with AI; others are augmenting their workforce or hiring new workers. The long-term impact on labor is murky.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-impact-on-work-mary-daly-interview/


Eric Schmidt Warned Against China’s AI Industry. Emails Show He Also Sought Connections to It

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Transparency advocates say that Eric Schmidt's pursuit of “personal” connections with AI companies in China represents a concerning conflict of interest.

https://www.wired.com/story/eric-schmidt-china-ai-ties/


How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI

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Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-your-data-from-being-used-to-train-ai/


Humans Forget. AI Assistants Will Remember Everything

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Digital assistants with access to everything you do on your phone can use that knowledge to remember the life details you’d otherwise forget. But with that great power comes great responsibility.

https://www.wired.com/story/humans-forget-ai-assistants-remember-everything/


Election Workers Are Drowning in Records Requests. AI Chatbots Could Make It Worse

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Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-chatbots-foia-requests-election-workers/


The Honeybees Versus the Murder Hornets

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Under threat from murder hornets, climate change, and habitat loss, UK honeybees are getting help from AI-enabled apiculturists tracking everything from foraging patterns to foreign invaders.

https://www.wired.com/story/bees-hornets-pollenize-invasive-species-united-kingdom/


Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI

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Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its detection tool found millions of papers that may have a significant amount of AI-generated content.

https://www.wired.com/story/student-papers-generative-ai-turnitin/


AI Scam Calls: How to Protect Yourself, How to Detect

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AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-ai-scam-calls-detect/


This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories

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Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using plain language to help people understand what’s happening in a building, car, or human body

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-ai-startup-archetype-talk-to-houses-cars-and-factories/


To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light

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OpenAI and other AI leaders think new leaps in machine intelligence will require new forms of computer hardware. One proposal involves connecting GPUs with light.

https://www.wired.com/story/build-a-better-ai-supercomputer-let-there-be-light/


OpenAI’s GPT Store Is Triggering Copyright Complaints

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A publisher says some chatbots in OpenAI's GPT Store were created using its copyrighted textbooks. OpenAI has taken down some of the bots but could face more complaints from rights holders.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-store-triggering-copyright-complaints/


AI-Generated Spoofs of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok

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The next Drag Race Ru-volution doesn't involve Ru at all.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-drag-race-instagram-tiktok/


Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People

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WIRED investigates how artificial intelligence tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, currently portray members of the LGBTQ community. Hint: It’s a lot of purple hair.

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-lgbtq-representation-openai-sora/


How an iPhone Powered by Google’s Gemini AI Might Work

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Supercharged Siri. AI image editing. Smart “snapshots” of your day. We asked some experts to forecast how Apple might use Google’s Gemini platform to enable new AI-powered applications in iOS.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-gemini-iphone/


OpenAI Can Re-Create Human Voices—but Won’t Release the Tech Yet

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Voice Engine is a new text-to-speech AI model for creating synthetic voices. OpenAI has said a wide release would be too risky.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-voice-engine-artificial-intelligence-release/


How to Resist the Temptation of AI When Writing

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Follow these tips to produce stronger writing that stands out on the web even in the age of AI and ChatGPT.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-resist-ai-temptation-writing/


Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work

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Despite recent warnings that generative AI is overhyped, new data from Pew Research Center shows a rapid increase in the number of people who have used ChatGPT at work.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-proof-the-ai-boom-is-people-tapping-chatgpt-at-work/


The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI

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Vice President Kamala Harris says new rules for government AI deployments, including a requirement that algorithms are checked for bias, will “put the public interest first.”

https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-new-guardrails-government-use-of-ai/


Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World's Most Powerful Open Source AI Model

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Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta’s Llama 2.

https://www.wired.com/story/dbrx-inside-the-creation-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-open-source-ai-model/


Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’

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Here’s Elie Hassenfeld, your high school EA crush. As effective altruism spirals into self-doubt, the idealist quant is still at it, helping Silicon Valley richies give away hundreds of millions each year.

https://www.wired.com/story/elie-hassenfeld-givewell-ea/


Is AI the Future of NPCs?

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Artificial intelligence is poised to have a massive impact on video games in the next few years, something that excites and worries developers. Some think non-player characters might be AI's killer app.

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-ai-non-player-characters-npcs-future/


A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims

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WIRED reporting uncovered a site that “nudifies” photos for a fee—and posts a feed appearing to show user uploads. They included photos of young girls and images seemingly taken of strangers.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nude-generator-chilling-look-at-its-victims/


Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

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A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills/


The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge

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Gilbert Herrera, who leads research at the National Security Agency, says large language models are incredibly useful—and a bit of a headache—for America’s intelligence machine.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-nsa-warns-us-adversaries-private-data-ai-edge/


Perplexity's Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search

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Aravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI search startup.

https://www.wired.com/story/founder-perplexity-ai-sundar-pichai-competing-to-reinvent-search/


The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations

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Before he used AI tools to make his movies, Willonius Hatcher couldn’t get noticed. Now his AI-generated shorts are going viral and Hollywood is calling.

https://www.wired.com/story/willonius-hatcher-the-filmmaker-who-says-ai-is-reparations/


Here's Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content

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OpenAI claimed it's "impossible" to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise.

https://www.wired.com/story/proof-you-can-train-ai-without-slurping-copyrighted-content/


8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

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They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.

https://www.wired.com/story/eight-google-employees-invented-modern-ai-transformers-paper/


Apple's MM1 AI Model Shows a Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up

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A research paper quietly released by Apple describes an AI model called MM1 that can answer questions and analyze images. It's the biggest sign yet that Apple is developing generative AI capabilities.

https://www.wired.com/story/apples-mm1-ai-model-sleeping-giant-waking-up/


Google DeepMind's New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner

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TacticAI, a soccer AI model created by Google DeepMind, makes predictions about where corners will go, and suggests tweaks to make goals more—or less—likely.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-is-helping-soccer-teams-take-the-perfect-corner/


What Happens When a Guy and His AI Girlfriend Go to Therapy

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In Sierra Greer's new novel, Annie Bot, a man named Doug finds out what it means to have the “perfect” girlfriend.

https://www.wired.com/story/annie-bot-sierra-greer-book-excerpt/


Kids’ Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube’s Deepfake Disclosure Rules

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YouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt.

https://www.wired.com/story/kids-cartoons-free-pass-youtube-deepfake-disclosure-rules/


Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry

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The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.

https://www.wired.com/story/reddits-sale-user-data-ai-training-draws-ftc-investigation/


DeepMind Is Helping Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner

A soccer AI model created by Google DeepMind makes predictions about where corners will go, and suggests tweaks to make goals more or less likely.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-is-helping-soccer-teams-take-the-perfect-corner/


Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation

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The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.

https://www.wired.com/story/reddits-sale-user-data-ai-training-draws-ftc-investigation/


Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

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Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-forget-chatbots-ai-agents-are-the-future/


Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can't Afford It

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The European AI Office and the UK government are trying to hire experts to study and regulate the AI boom—but are offering salaries far short of industry compensation.

https://www.wired.com/story/regulators-need-ai-expertise-cant-afford-it/


Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play 'Goat Simulator 3'

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These AI agents can adapt to games they haven't played before. Google made them by feeding data on how humans play different video games to a language model like those behind the latest chatbots.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-ai-agent-learned-to-play-goat-simulator-3/


The Kate Middleton Photo’s Most Glaring Photoshop Mistakes

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Blurry hair, meandering zippers—we asked WIRED’s design department to explain the editing errors in Kate Middleton’s controversial Mother’s Day photo.

https://www.wired.com/story/kate-middleton-photoshop-mistakes/


Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube

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Get-rich-quick hustlers say it’s a great time to push AI-generated kids videos on YouTube. WIRED found some channels targeting children that appear to be already embracing the technology.

https://www.wired.com/story/your-kid-may-be-watching-ai-generated-videos-on-youtube/


The Kate Middleton Photo's Most Glaring Photoshop Mistakes

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Blurry hair, meandering zippers—we asked WIRED’s design department to explain the editing errors in Kate Middleton's controversial Mother's Day photo.

https://www.wired.com/story/kate-middleton-photoshop-mistakes/


Why Elon Musk Had to Open Source Grok, His Answer to ChatGPT

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Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-no-choice-open-chatbot-grok/


An AI-Altered Hitler Speech Is Going Viral On X

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Two AI-altered clips of Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech have racked up millions of views on X after being shared by a far-right troll.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-altered-hitler-speech-viral/


Elon Musk Gave Himself No Choice but to Open Source His Chatbot Grok

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Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-no-choice-open-chatbot-grok/


The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand—and an Arm

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Robotics startup Covariant is experimenting with a ChatGPT-style chatbot that can control a robotic arm, as a way to create machines that can be more helpful in the physical world.

https://www.wired.com/story/quest-ai-chatbots-a-hand-arm-robots/


Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better

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Erasing key information during training allows machine learning models to learn new languages faster and more easily.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-selective-forgetting-can-help-ai-learn-better/


Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls

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Social robots for older adults might not be new, but now they're recording, listening—and talking back.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-dolls-for-older-adults/


Sam Altman Back on OpenAI's Board After He Is Cleared by Investigation

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OpenAI named Sam Altman, its fired-then-rehired CEO, to its board of directors Friday. It also added three women with executive experience at Sony, Meta, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-is-reinstated-to-openais-board/


Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI’s Board

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OpenAI named Sam Altman, its fired-then-rehired CEO, to its board of directors Friday. It also added three women with executive experience at Sony, Meta, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-is-reinstated-to-openais-board/


Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates

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In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.

https://www.wired.com/story/florida-teens-arrested-deepfake-nudes-classmates/


The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI

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Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fear-that-inspired-elon-musk-sam-altman-openai/


Google’s GenAI Bots Are Struggling. But so Are Its Humans

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This week, we talk about the rocky rollout of Google’s Gemini image generator, and some internal tensions recently reported by company employees.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-635/


Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

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Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She says the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and race.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-black-deaf-worker-diversity-suing-discrimination/


5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

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On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology.

https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-banned-face-recognition-voters-ask-for-more-surveillance/


AI Tools Are Still Generating Misleading Election Images

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Though AI companies said they put some guardrails in place, researchers were able to easily create images related to claims of election fraud.

https://www.wired.com/story/genai-images-election-fraud/


The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image Generators

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Open source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn.

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-side-open-source-ai-image-generators/


Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait

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On Tuesday, Google announced changes to combat AI spam in search. An SEO expert says these new rules could “change everything.”

https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-artificial-intelligence-clickbait-spam-crackdown/


Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Microsoft-Powered Chatbot Is Back Online

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The RFK Jr. campaign’s chatbot had previously affirmed Kennedy’s promotion of conspiracy theories, and appeared to circumvent OpenAI’s ban on political use.

https://www.wired.com/story/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chatbot-microsoft-openai-disappeared/


What Is OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus? Here’s What You Should Know

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OpenAI’s subscription-only service costs $20 a month and includes access to the GPT-4 model. We signed up and tried it out.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-chatgpt-plus-gpt4-openai/


Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Microsoft-Powered Chatbot Just Disappeared

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The RFK Jr. campaign's chatbot had previously affirmed Kennedy's promotion of conspiracy theories, and appeared to circumvent OpenAI's ban on political use.

https://www.wired.com/story/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chatbot-microsoft-openai-disappeared/


The Wild Claim at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit

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Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI hinges on a dubious claim that the company has already developed ‘artificial general intelligence’—and handed it over to Microsoft.

https://www.wired.com/story/wild-claim-at-the-heart-of-elon-musks-openai-lawsuit/


Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for ‘Flagrant Breaches’ of Contract

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In the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-sues-sam-altman-openai/


The Mindblowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly

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AI chips from startup Groq allow chatbots to answer queries almost instantly. That could open up whole new use cases for generative AI helpers.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-groq-mindblowing-chatbot-answers-instantly/


Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Breach of Contract

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In the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit humanity.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-sues-sam-altman-openai/


Here Come the AI Worms

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Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.

https://www.wired.com/story/here-come-the-ai-worms/


Google’s Deal With StackOverflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data

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StackOverflow’s programming community will power a version of Google’s Gemini chatbot. It’s part of a new breed of AI data licensing deals with websites seeking a cut of the generative AI boom.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deal-stackoverflow-ai-giants-pay-for-data/


The AI Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started

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Google apologized after its Gemini model caused offense by being too “woke.” Expect political fights over AI’s values to worsen as the technology becomes more capable.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-ai-culture-wars-just-getting-started/


How Nvidia Came to Rule AI

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This week we chart the rise of Nvidia, the company whose chips, servers, and data centers have fueled the growth of artificial intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-634/


How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature

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The latest update to OpenAI’s chatbot improves the AI’s ability to remember user details, but the feature is not yet available for all ChatGPT accounts.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-chatgpt-memory-feature/


How a Small Iowa Newspaper's Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory

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When two former Meta employees dug into why the website of Iowa's Clayton County Register was spewing dubious posts about stocks, they uncovered a network of sites slinging seemingly AI-made content.

https://www.wired.com/story/iowa-newspaper-website-ai-generated-clickbait-factory/


Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Powering the AI Revolution

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Tech companies can’t get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes the mind of its CEO, Jensen Huang.

https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-hardware-is-eating-the-world-jensen-huang/


Intel’s CEO Says AI Is the Key to the Company’s Comeback

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Pat Gelsinger says that Intel’s renewed investment in cutting-edge manufacturing technology will allow it to become a leading supplier of AI chips. Microsoft is already onboard.

https://www.wired.com/story/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-ai-comeback/


There's No AI Without Nvidia. Meet the CEO Powering the Future

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Tech companies can’t get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes the mind of its CEO, Jensen Huang.

https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-hardware-is-eating-the-world-jensen-huang/


Google’s ‘Woke’ Image Generator Shows the Limitations of AI

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Google has hit pause on Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after a far-right backlash to its historical depictions.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-generation/


Google’s ‘Woke’ Image Generator Shows the Limitations of AI

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Google has hit pause on Gemini's ability to generate images of people after a far-right backlash to its historical depictions.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-generation/


17 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level

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Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

https://www.wired.com/story/17-tips-better-chatgpt-prompts/


Intel's AI Reboot Is the Future of US Chipmaking

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The biggest chipmaker in the US is hoping that generative AI—and US government concern about China's tech ambitions—will revitalize its business.

https://www.wired.com/story/intel-ai-reboot-future-us-chipmaking/


Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust

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The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn.

https://www.wired.com/story/gab-ai-chatbot-racist-holocaust/


Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present

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WIRED’s advice columnist on the true purpose of gift giving.

https://www.wired.com/story/help-my-friend-got-me-a-dumb-ai-generated-present/


AI Is Coming for the Experts. First, It Needs Their Help

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A new workforce of language experts, creative writers, and nuclear physicists are turning to data labor—and potentially making their future jobs obsolete in the process.

https://www.wired.com/story/remotasks-ai-expert-data-labor/


Google’s AI Boss Says Scale Only Gets You So Far

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In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will take more than just chips.

https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-interview-artificial-intelligence-scale/


Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI

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By rewarding computers that combined different approaches to solve chess puzzles, Google created an enhanced AI that could defeat its existing champion, AlphaZero.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-artificial-intelligence-chess/


Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

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The airline tried to argue that it shouldn't be liable for anything its chatbot says.

https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy/


Sierra Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites

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Sierra hopes every company will use its empathetic AI chatbots for customer interactions.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-sierra-conversational-ai-will-kill-apps-and-websites/


OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos

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OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sora-generative-ai-video/


Some People Actually Kind of Love Deepfakes

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AI fakes are a disinformation menace. But some politicians, executives, and academics see them as a way to extend their reach.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-deepfakes-companies-executives-academics/


Google’s Flagship Gemini AI Model Gets a Major Upgrade

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Just two months after Alphabet made its Gemini AI model public, it’s rolling out a new version that can handle several times as much audio, video, and text input as GPT-4.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-gemini-pro-ai-upgrade/


Here Comes the Flood of AI-Generated Clickbait

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This week, we look at how domain squatters are using generative AI tools to crank out clickbait, and ask what Google is doing about it.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-632/


‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare

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Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren’t transparent, new research from Mozilla says.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-girlfriends-privacy-nightmare/


OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory

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ChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-memory-openai/


The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything

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It’s so simple: Axe 26 words from the Communications Decency Act. Welcome to a world without Section 230.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-one-internet-hack-that-could-save-everything-section-230/


Nick Hornby’s Brain-Bending Sculptures Twist History Into New Shapes

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British sculptor Nick Hornby uses computer modeling to make mashups of famous artworks and historical figures that shift and change depending on your perspective.

https://www.wired.com/story/nick-hornbys-brain-bending-sculptures-twist-history-into-new-shapes/


Martin Scorsese’s Squarespace Super Bowl Ad Wants You to Put Down Your Phone

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In an interview with WIRED, the legendary director says, “It would probably take contact with extraterrestrials to catch our attention.”

https://www.wired.com/story/martin-scorsese-interview-super-bowl-squarespace-commercial-alien-invasion/


Meet the Pranksters Behind Goody-2, the World’s ‘Most Responsible’ AI Chatbot

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Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there’s a serious point behind the gag.

https://www.wired.com/story/goody-2-worlds-most-responsible-ai-chatbot/


Here’s the Thing AI Just Can’t Do

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Google says its powerful new chatbot Gemini can supercharge your creativity. But who is really providing the creative spark?

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-the-thing-ai-just-cant-do/


AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

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The CEO of GitHub says half of all code produced by users of the Copilot programming helper is now AI-generated—but that there’s no sign the technology will replace human coders.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-ai-rewiring-coders-brains-github-copilot/


London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

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In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show.

https://www.wired.com/story/london-underground-ai-surveillance-documents/


AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Are Now Illegal

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A month after the mysterious Biden calls in New Hampshire, the FCC can now go after robocall scammers that use AI voice clones.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-voices-robocalls-illegal-fcc/


Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google's Subscription Future

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Google is still mostly supported by ads but its new subscription-only chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is a major new addition to the company's burgeoning services business.

https://www.wired.com/story/gemini-advanced-google-subscriptions-ai/


Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble

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Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud platform AWS, says generative AI is valuable but that the excitement around some AI companies is similar to when dotcom darlings were “dramatically overhyped.”

https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-cloud-boss-selipsky-generative-ai-hype/


LinkedIn's New AI Chatbot Wants to Help You Find Your Next Job

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A chatbot interface on LinkedIn tries to speed up job searches by offering advice such as an assessment of how well a job opening matches a person's skills.

https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-chatbot-help-find-your-next-job/


Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin

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Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles. But he wants you to know he's a nice guy.

https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-of-an-ai-clickbait-kingpin/


Mystery Company Linked to Biden Robocall Identified by New Hampshire Attorney General

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The FCC has issued a cease and desist and is working on a new proposal banning AI-generated robocalls.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-hampshire-biden-ai-robocall/


Meta Will Crack Down on AI-Generated Fakes—but Leave Plenty Undetected

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Some AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will in future be labeled as artificial. But only if they are made using tools from companies willing to work with Meta.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-crack-down-ai-generated-fakes/


How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

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As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-guarantee-the-safety-of-autonomous-vehicles-driverless-cars-ai-waymo-cruise-robotaxi-tesla/


I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away

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WIRED experimented with a new form of voice assistant that can browse the web and perform tasks online. Siri, Alexa, and other virtual helpers could soon be much more powerful.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-tested-next-gen-ai-assistant/


Google Splits Up a Key AI Ethics Watchdog

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A crucial team at Google that reviewed new AI products for compliance with its rules for responsible AI development faces an uncertain future after its leader departed this month.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-splits-up-responsible-innovation-ai-team/


Google Splits Up Its Responsible AI Team

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A crucial team at Google that reviewed new AI products for compliance with its rules for responsible AI development faces an uncertain future after its leader departed this month.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-splits-up-responsible-innovation-ai-team/


Hulu Shows Jarring Anti-Hamas Ad Likely Generated With AI

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The ad, which appears to be made using generative AI, shows how the technology can be used not just to mislead, but to more subtly influence.

https://www.wired.com/story/hulu-anti-hamas-ad-generative-ai/


US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools

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Members of Congress say the DOJ is funding the use of AI tools that further discriminatory policing practices. They're demanding higher standards for federal grants.

https://www.wired.com/story/doj-predictive-policing-lawmakers-demand/


The George Carlin ‘AI’ Standup Creators Now Say a Human Wrote the Jokes

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A lawsuit filed by Carlin's manager will still move forward.

https://www.wired.com/story/george-carlin-ai-standup-written-by-humans/


OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects

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The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-tech-giants-us-government-ai-projects/


If Taylor Swift Can't Defeat Deepfake Porn, No One Can

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Deepfake porn is prolific. The explicit, AI-generated images of Taylor Swift that circulated on X this week are taking the issue to new heights.

https://www.wired.com/story/taylor-swift-deepfake-porn-artificial-intelligence-pushback/


Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs

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Two fake-audio experts say that the deepfake robocall of President Biden received by some voters last week was likely created with technology from Silicon Valley’s favorite voice cloning startup.

https://www.wired.com/story/biden-robocall-deepfake-elevenlabs/


Etching AI Controls Into Silicon Could Keep Doomsday at Bay

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As the US and other countries ponder how to prevent dangerous uses of AI, some researchers suggest building limitations into crucial chips like GPUs to cap the power of algorithms.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-ai-silicon-doomsday/


This Chatbot Screens Your Dating App Matches for You

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Users of the new dating app Volar train a chatbot to go on virtual first dates for them with the bots of potential matches.  We tested it out.

https://www.wired.com/story/volar-dating-app-chatbot-screen-matches/


OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public

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From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-scrapped-promise-disclose-key-documents/


Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

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Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.

https://www.wired.com/story/most-news-sites-block-ai-bots-right-wing-media-welcomes-them/


Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race

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Kai-Fu Lee, an AI expert and prominent investor who helped Google and Microsoft get established in China, says his new startup 01.AI will create the first “killer apps” of generative AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-startup-01-ai-is-winning-the-open-source-ai-race/


Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It

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Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use facial recognition on a face generated from crime-scene DNA. It likely won’t be the last.

https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/


ChatGPT's Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution

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With AI projects booming and the physical limits of silicon looming, some startups are challenging Nvidia's dominance and say it’s time to reinvent the computer chip entirely.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-chatgpt-hunger-energy-gpu-revolution/


AI Hits the Campaign Trail

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This week, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence will affect the 2024 US elections. We also consider the ways regulators, social platforms, and the voting public are dealing with it.

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-629/


An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists

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Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-executive-ed-newton-rex-turns-crusader-stand-up-for-artists/


Google Circle to Search and AI-Powered Multi-Search Coming to Mobile

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Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-circle-to-search-ai-powered-multi-search/


A Flaw in Millions of Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data

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Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.

https://www.wired.com/story/leftoverlocals-gpu-vulnerability-generative-ai/


How to Launch a Custom Chatbot on OpenAI’s GPT Store

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You can now publish a bespoke version of ChatGPT that you’ve trained yourself. The marketplace for these custom GPTs is open to the public and works in a way that's similar to Apple’s App Store.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-launch-custom-chatbot-openai-gpt-store/


Regulators Are Finally Catching Up With Big Tech

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The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.

https://www.wired.com/story/regulators-are-finally-catching-up-with-big-tech/


Toyota's Robots Are Learning to Do Housework—By Copying Humans

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Carmaker Toyota is developing robots capable of learning to do household chores by observing how humans take on the tasks. The project is an example of robotics getting a boost from generative AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-toyota-robots-learning-housework/


Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

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At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.

https://www.wired.com/story/congress-senate-tech-companies-pay-ai-training-data/


OpenAI’s New App Store Could Turn ChatGPT Into an Everything App

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A new app store from the creator of ChatGPT invites companies to build custom “GPTs” that add functionality to the chatbot. OpenAI isn’t saying how app builders will get paid.

https://www.wired.com/story/openais-app-store-chatgpt-everything-app/


Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment

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Rose-tinted predictions for artificial intelligence’s grand achievements will be swept aside by underwhelming performance and dangerous results.

https://www.wired.com/story/get-ready-for-the-great-ai-disappointment/


Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date

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The startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns whatever digital errands you teach it. The interface is extra cute: a handheld device you use to issue voice commands to your bot army.

https://www.wired.com/story/rabbit-r1/


It’s No Wonder People Are Getting Emotionally Attached to Chatbots

AI chatbots can be friendly and responsive—even sexy. It’s time to take these fundamentally human behaviors more seriously.

https://www.wired.com/story/its-no-wonder-people-are-getting-emotionally-attached-to-chatbots/


CES 2024 Preview: Get Ready for a ‘Tsunami’ of AI

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CES, which kicks off January 9 in Las Vegas, will feature the usual assortment of new consumer tech products. This year, even more of that stuff will be empowered by machine intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/ces-2024-preview-a-tsunami-of-ai/


In Defense of AI Hallucinations

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Chatbots’ habit of spewing untruths is a big problem—but we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-in-defense-of-ai-hallucinations-chatgpt/


The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves

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Boston Dynamic's legged robots won the internet by doing parkour and dancing to classic R&B. The company's founder Marc Raibert now leads an institute trying to make the machines more independent.

https://www.wired.com/story/boston-dynamics-institute-robots-marc-raibert/


Sex, Drugs, and AI Mickey Mouse

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The Steamboat Willie version of Disney icon Mickey Mouse just entered the public domain, and there's already an explosion of related AI-generated art. We talked to some of the creators behind it.

https://www.wired.com/story/mickey-mouse-steamboat-willie-public-domain-artificial-intelligence/


To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare

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Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win.

https://www.wired.com/story/own-future-artificial-intelligence-read-shakespeare/


AI May Not Steal Your Job, but It Could Stop You Getting Hired

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In her new book The Algorithm, journalist Hilke Schellmann investigates software that automates résumé screening and promotion recommendations, raising concerns about discrimination.

https://www.wired.com/story/hilke-schellmann-algorithm-book-ai-jobs-hiring/


WIRED’s 2023 Year-in-Review Quiz

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From OpenAI to Ozempic, test your knowledge about some of the biggest science and technology stories from this year.

https://www.wired.com/story/2023-year-in-review-quiz/


The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023

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From Sam Altman and Elon Musk to ransomware gangs and state-backed hackers, these are the individuals and groups that spent this year disrupting the world we know it.

https://www.wired.com/story/most-dangerous-people-2023/


How to Use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Create Your Own Custom GPT

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I created an experimental chatbot with 50 of my WIRED articles. Try it out for yourself.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-chatgpt-create-custom-gpt-openai/


The Hollywood Strikes Stopped AI From Taking Your Job. But for How Long?

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The year was dominated by talk of what artificial intelligence could do—and what it could do better than most humans.

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-saved-your-job-from-ai-2023-will-it-last/


AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now

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Artificial intelligence can now tell tales featuring your kids’ favorite characters. It’s copyright chaos—and a major headache for parents and guardians.

https://www.wired.com/story/bluey-gpts-bedtime-stories-artificial-intelligence-copyright/


How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

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It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true.

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-meta-yann-lecun-interview/


Journalists Had 'No Idea' About OpenAI's Deal to Use Their Stories

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WIRED spoke with employees at Business Insider, one of the outlets owned by Axel Springer, which just struck a significant deal with OpenAI.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-axel-springer-news-licensing-deal-whats-in-it-for-writers/


America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch

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NIST, the US agency Joe Biden tasked with curbing the risks of AI, lacks the necessary resources. Lawmakers are concerned it could be forced to rely on private companies developing the technology.

https://www.wired.com/story/americas-ai-safety-plan-budget-crunch/


In the Age of AI, 'Her' Is a Fairy Tale

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Spike Jonze’s Her turns 10 today. The futuristic film is now an optimistic time capsule.

https://www.wired.com/story/spike-jonze-her-10-year-anniversary-artificial-intelligence/


OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check

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The “superalignment” team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ilya-sutskever-ai-safety/


My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk's 'Politically Biased' Chatbot

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Some Elon Musk fans are concerned that Grok, xAI's answer to ChatGPT, is too politically liberal. The nature of the underlying AI technology will make “fixing” its outlook difficult.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-elon-musk-grok-political-bias-chatbot/


Europe to End Robo-Firing in Major Gig Economy Overhaul

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Platforms will no longer be able to fire their workers automatically as part of new EU rules that will affect millions of people, including Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers.

https://www.wired.com/story/platform-work-eu-overhauls/


The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI

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The European Union agreed on terms of the AI Act, a major new set of rules that will govern the building and use of AI and have major implications for Google, OpenAI, and others racing to develop AI systems.

https://www.wired.com/story/eu-ai-act/


Europe to End Robo-Firing in Major Gig Economy Overhaul

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Platforms will no longer be able to fire their workers automatically as part of new EU rules that will affect millions of people including Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers.

https://www.wired.com/story/platform-work-eu-overhauls/


The EU Just Agreed Sweeping New Rules for AI

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The European Union has agreed on the terms of the AI Act, a major new set of rules that will govern the building and use of AI and have major implications for Google, OpenAI, and others racing to develop AI systems.

https://www.wired.com/story/eu-ai-act/


Google’s NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant

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Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer’s research material and help them extract and explore the key themes. Maybe too well.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-notebooklm-ai-ultimate-writing-assistant/


Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom

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A new AI model from Google—called Gemini—is fresh competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The AI rivals are now working on even more radical ideas.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-generative-ai-boom/


The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

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The Authors Guild and other artists’ groups say that it's unfair to train AI algorithms on their work without permission. Tech companies generally argue that it counts as “fair use.”

https://www.wired.com/story/livewired-generative-ai-copyright/


OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence

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LinkedIn and OpenAI cofounder Reid Hoffman says he's glad Sam Altman is leading the AI company again. Hoffman and other AI experts discussed the perils and potential of AI at a WIRED event Tuesday.

https://www.wired.com/story/livewired-ai-hoffman-openai/


How to Use Google’s Gemini AI Right Now in Its Bard Chatbot

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You can try out Gemini, Google's rival to ChatGPT, for free. It’s super easy to access right inside Bard.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-google-gemini-ai-bard-chatbot/


Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis Says Gemini Is a New Breed of AI

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Google’s new AI model Gemini launched today inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-gemini-ai/


Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT

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Google says Gemini, launching today inside the Bard chatbot, is its “most capable” AI model ever. It was trained on video, images, and audio as well as text.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-ai-model-chatgpt/


How to Stop Another OpenAI Meltdown

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OpenAI designed its governance structure to protect humanity—and it imploded. The company could take pointers from Mozilla and other projects combining lofty goals with for-profit ventures.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-openai-governance-structure-meltdown/


A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4

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Adversarial algorithms can systematically probe large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 for weaknesses that can make them misbehave.

https://www.wired.com/story/automated-ai-attack-gpt-4/


The Rise of AI in Alternative Browsers—and What’s Next

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Developers at smaller companies have been adding new ways to experience the internet with AI assistance. Their visions for the future radically differ.

https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-browsers-built-in-ai-arc-sigmaos-brave-opera/


Inside America's School Internet Censorship Machine

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A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. Students say it makes the web entirely unusable.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-americas-school-internet-censorship-machine/


OpenAI Committed to Buying $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman

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Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously made a personal investment in Rain.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/


‘Authentic’ Is 2023’s Word of the Year. You Read That Right

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In a year dominated by artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and disingenuity, “authentic” has somehow emerged as Merriam-Webster’s word for 2023.

https://www.wired.com/authentc-word-of-the-year-artificial-intelligence-pop-culture-politics/


Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare

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Autonomous drones are rapidly changing combat. Anduril’s new one aims to gain an edge with jet power and AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-roadrunner-drone/


These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q* Project

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Reports of a mysterious breakthrough called Q* at OpenAI sparked anxious rumors. AI experts say it’s probably just a conventional attempt to make ChatGPT a little smarter.

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-clues-hint-openai-shadowy-q-project/


Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With New Board Seat for Microsoft

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The CEO’s memo to staff announces a non-voting seat for Microsoft but leaves questions about the future of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-officially-returns-to-openai-board-seat-microsoft/


An AI Dreamed Up 380,000 New Materials. The Next Challenge Is Making Them

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Google DeepMind researchers say they’ve expanded the number of known stable materials by 10-fold. Some could be useful for everything from batteries to superconductors—if they make it out of the lab.

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-dreamed-up-380000-new-materials-the-next-challenge-is-making-them/


OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets

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Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-custom-chatbots-gpts-prompt-injection-attacks/


Amazon’s Answer to ChatGPT Is a Workplace Assistant Called Q

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Amazon has developed a generative AI helper that codes, manages cloud software, and powers business apps. The company has also developed new silicon for AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-q-ai-chatbot-aws/


Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board

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After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.

https://www.wired.com/story/women-in-tech-openai-board/


The Problems Lurking in Hollywood’s Historic AI Deal

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The terms the Screen Actors Guild negotiated with Hollywood studios put historic AI guardrails in place, but they may not be able to protect performers.

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-actors-deal-artifcial-intelligence-future/


Nicolas Cage on Memes, Myths, and Why He Thinks AI Is a ‘Nightmare’

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Nicolas Cage’s new movie Dream Scenario investigates the trappings of fame and what happens when someone’s notoriety is bigger than themselves—something Cage understands well.

https://www.wired.com/story/nicolas-cage-interview-artificial-intelligence-memes/


Sam Altman’s Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse

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Five days of chaos at OpenAI revealed weaknesses in the company’s self-governance. That worries people who believe AI poses an existential risk and proponents of AI regulation.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-second-coming-sparks-new-fears-ai-apocalypse/


Mods Are Asleep. Quick, Everyone Release AI Products

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In the five days between Sam Altman’s mysterious firing and rehiring as OpenAI’s CEO, multiple companies dropped new artificial intelligence tools.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-artificial-intelligence-products-openai-anthropic-stability-ai/


OpenAI’s Boardroom Drama Could Mess Up Your Future

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OpenAI’s board ejected Sam Altman in an attempt to preserve OpenAI’s mission of keeping AI development safe. The chaotic results, even after Altman’s reinstatement, have done the exact opposite.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-boardroom-drama-sam-altman-could-mess-up-your-future/


Meet the Lawyer Leading the Human Resistance Against AI

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Matthew Butterick is leading a wave of lawsuits against major AI firms, from OpenAI to Meta. Win or lose, his work will shape the future of human creativity.

https://www.wired.com/story/matthew-butterick-ai-copyright-lawsuits-openai-meta/


The Rise of AI in Alternative Browsers—and What’s Next

Developers at smaller companies have been adding new ways to experience the internet with AI assistance. Their visions for the future radically differ.

https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-browsers-built-in-ai-arc-sigmaos-brave-opera/


Sam Altman Reaches Agreement to Return to OpenAI

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After days of chaos at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the company says it has “in principle” reached an agreement for ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to his post.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-openai-back/


OpenAI’s Boardroom Drama Could Mess Up Your Future

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OpenAI’s board appears to have ejected Sam Altman in an attempt to preserve OpenAI’s mission of keeping AI development safe. The chaotic results have done the exact opposite.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-boardroom-drama-sam-altman-could-mess-up-your-future/


Elon Musk Trolls His Way Into the OpenAI Drama

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Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI but left after his own failed coup. Now he has shared an unsigned letter containing unverified accusations against the recently fired CEO Sam Altman.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-troll-openai-drama/


The Mystery at the Heart of the OpenAI Chaos

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Last week Sam Altman was sensationally fired from OpenAI, tipping the AI company into chaos. It remains unclear what made the board decide to act.

https://www.wired.com/story/mystery-at-the-heart-of-the-openai-chaos/


95 Percent of OpenAI Employees Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door

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Nearly all of OpenAI's 770 employees have now joined a letter threatening to quit in protest over the board’s decision to fire CEO Sam Altman. They're demanding he be reinstated.

https://www.wired.com/story/95-percent-of-openai-employees-threaten-to-follow-sam-altman-out-the-door/


Meet Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s ‘Highly Intelligent, Socially Awkward’ Interim CEO

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Emmett Shear is taking over from Sam Altman as interim CEO of OpenAI. Sources have given a mixed review of his suitability for the role.

https://www.wired.com/story/emmett-shear-twitch-open-ai-ceo/


OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns

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Nearly 500 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft unless the startup's board resigns and reappoints the ousted CEO.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/


Microsoft Emerges as the Winner in OpenAI Chaos

Microsoft has hired OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head a new advanced AI team, acquiring one of the most successful management groups in the AI industry.

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-emerges-as-the-winner-in-openai-chaos/


Sam Altman’s Attempt to Return as OpenAI CEO Fails as Board Turns to ex-Twitch CEO

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Altman was ousted by OpenAI’s board Friday but by Sunday was back in the building to negotiate a return. The board chose ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO instead.

https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-openai-return-fails-ceo-twitch-emmett-shear/


How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman

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Chaos at OpenAI has its root in an unusual corporate structure designed to protect humanity against rogue AI—some investors had expressed fears it could weaken the company.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-bizarre-structure-4-people-the-power-to-fire-sam-altman/