Apple's Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave https://media.wired.com/photos/66678da17718ee8981f0c386/master/pass/Apple-AI-WWDC-2024-Business-2156972167.jpg Apple Intelligence will make apps and services smarter. But Apple’s most notable innovations focus on ensuring the technology doesn't disappoint, annoy, or offend. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ios-macos-ai-openai/
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2024: AI Features, New Siri, Genmoji https://media.wired.com/photos/6667528bbbc4a40373aab2af/master/pass/Everything-Apple-Announced-WWDC-2024-GettyImages-2156398720.jpg The company's annual developer event was stacked with demonstrations that showed off the new artificial intelligence capabilities coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs. https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-wwdc-2024/
Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI https://media.wired.com/photos/6667459f7b6ba44030ae707c/master/pass/Apple-Intelligence.jpg At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced its first serious foray into generative AI, with a focus on app integrations and data privacy. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-ios-wwdc/
AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children https://media.wired.com/photos/6664d9df9b3a4000ea77c264/master/pass/AI-Tools-Training-On-Real-Children's-Faces-2-Business-517081122.jpg A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-tools-are-secretly-training-on-real-childrens-faces/
How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable https://media.wired.com/photos/666089bdc5df112122a38df1/master/pass/Consensus-game-scaled.jpg Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more correct, efficient, and consistent. https://www.wired.com/story/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-and-efficient/
The EU Is Taking on Big Tech. It May Be Outmatched https://media.wired.com/photos/6663aa86a7e48c1e5e72cdef/master/pass/EU-Taking-On-Big-Tech-Business-2092426358.jpg From the Digital Services Act to the AI Act, in five years Europe has created a lot of rules for the digital world. Implementing them, however, isn’t always easy. https://www.wired.com/story/european-commission-big-tech-regulation-outlook/
Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin https://media.wired.com/photos/6616c5c893c80b80490a6337/master/pass/Humane%20Ai%20Pin%20Charge%20Pad%20SOURCE%20Julian%20Chokkattu.jpg Plus: Wilson Audio revamps its iconic speakers, Elon continues to Elon, and Google’s AI overviews are already causing chaos. https://www.wired.com/story/things-keep-getting-worse-for-the-humane-ai-pin/
Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI https://media.wired.com/photos/66625436bd6c904f877d7337/master/pass/Tech-Mistrust-AI-Plaintext-Business-1194975140.jpg It’s OK to be doubtful of tech leaders’ grandiose visions of our AI future—but that doesn’t mean the technology won’t have a huge impact. https://www.wired.com/story/dont-let-mistrust-of-tech-companies-blind-you-power-of-ai/
An AI Cartoon May Interview You for Your Next Job https://media.wired.com/photos/666242fd76dc0bf00edd729d/master/pass/business_ai_cartoon_job_interview.jpg As if trying to land a new gig isn’t demoralizing enough, job seekers are meeting with characters powered by generative AI who are capable of meeting with infinite candidates to judge their skills. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-cartoon-next-job/
US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets https://media.wired.com/photos/666106d916423ddde0a11b15/master/pass/Susan-Rice-AI-Secrets-Business-1243253392.jpg Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets. https://www.wired.com/story/national-security-experts-warn-ai-giants-secrets/
OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT https://media.wired.com/photos/6661d484e7f0257b8be9c3d5/master/pass/ChatGPT-Mind-Business-2R5EGF2.jpg Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-offers-a-peek-inside-the-guts-of-chatgpt/
Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work https://media.wired.com/photos/6660e614d70daae6d5bdf882/master/pass/Chatbot-Teamwork-Fast-Forward-Business-105782160.jpg Experiments show that asking AI chatbots to work together on a problem can compensate for some of their shortcomings. WIRED enlisted two bots to help plan this article. https://www.wired.com/story/chatbot-teamwork-makes-the-ai-dream-work/
Learning to Live With Google's AI Overviews https://media.wired.com/photos/6660e7b37e8c12296e4ac321/master/pass/Google-AI-Overviews-Gadget-Lab-Gear-GettyImages-1319809159.jpg This week, we discuss the bumpy first few weeks of Google’s AI-powered summaries, and why the new feature is making us sweat. https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-646/
Apple WWDC 2024: What to Expect for Software and Hardware https://media.wired.com/photos/6660e7f56e8f6725ef8a19a2/master/pass/WWDC-What-to-Expect-Gear-GettyImages-1258464774.jpg The annual Worldwide Developers Conference starts Monday, June 10. Here are the new features, AI-powered and otherwise, potentially coming to your devices. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-wwdc-2024-what-to-expect/
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI https://media.wired.com/photos/66609b9f51e70775068bb362/master/pass/Eliot%20higgins_Portraits%20Selection_The%20Big%20Interview_Wired_@michaelfungphotography-3.jpeg Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-lead-army-of-digital-sleuths-age-of-ai/
Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid https://media.wired.com/photos/6660c1e5ef8a4d273222f2e5/master/pass/Marc-Andreessen-Trust-And-Safety-Business-Alamy-2X0XA88.jpg Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son. https://www.wired.com/story/marc-andreessen-online-safety-enemy-walled-gardens/
Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work https://media.wired.com/photos/665fbf8785bf25dd2b3d5c27/master/pass/business_google_ai_overview_copy.jpg Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives? https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-results-copied-my-original-work/
Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco https://media.wired.com/photos/665e5d4907616ed8d1026263/master/pass/Google-AI-Overview-Business-1393650523.jpg Data on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral. https://www.wired.com/story/google-cut-back-ai-overviews-before-pizza-glue/
OpenAI Employees Warn of a Culture of Risk and Retaliation https://media.wired.com/photos/665f2c61d5fa7848dbc4d268/master/pass/OpenAI-Employees-Warn-of-a-Culture-of-Risk-and-Retaliation-GettyImages-1913209938.jpg An open letter signed by former and current employees at OpenAI and other AI giants calls for whistleblower protections as the artificial intelligence rapidly evolves. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-right-to-warn-open-letter-ai-risk/
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI https://media.wired.com/photos/665f1e8cadeedbca45250ca4/master/pass/Microsoft-Recall-Security-GettyImages-967356980.jpg Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is. https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/
AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It? https://media.wired.com/photos/665e41499c3c01816e236561/master/pass/Microsoft-Copilot-AI-in-the-Workplace-2WD47TD.jpg Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and security considerations you should know about. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-workplace-privacy-security/
The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant https://media.wired.com/photos/6646741187b3adfc0c318014/master/pass/beauty%20queen-RAS-v4.jpg The idea of an AI beauty pageant might seem laughable or grotesque, depending on who you ask. But the World AI Creator Awards reflects something deeper about modern influencer culture. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-beauty-pageant-world-ai-creator-awards/
The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here https://media.wired.com/photos/665124b13d662ee3bfb78bd6/master/pass/Tech-Data-Centers-Sustainable-Energy-Business-Alamy-2X3GC4M.jpg Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how provide them enough power to meet AI's demands. https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-datacenter-energy-power-grid/
Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That's How AI Works https://media.wired.com/photos/665902e326cbd2b971a9fc39/master/pass/Google-AI-Overview-Issues-Business-2150047799.jpg Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still screw up sometimes. https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-broken-how-ai-works/
It's the AI Election Year https://media.wired.com/photos/665783e855dd391b3785631d/master/pass/putin_clones_v02.jpg With over 60 countries holding elections in 2024, deepfakes and robocalls are being used to manipulate voters across the world. WIRED is tracking every instance of AI interference during this critical election year. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-election-2024/
Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up https://media.wired.com/photos/665914bfc5216ae5f8728032/master/pass/Google-Admits-AI-Overview-Has-Issues-Business-2149574482.jpg Liz Reid, Google’s head of search, said in a blog post that the company had made adjustments to its new AI search feature after screenshots of its errors went viral. https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-issues/
Foreign Influence Campaigns Don't Know How to Use AI Yet Either https://media.wired.com/photos/6658cbeb1ce19f11ef8b2f8a/master/pass/OpenAI-Covert-Propaganda-Report-Politics-2144483773.jpg OpenAI has released its first report, which details how bad actors in Russia, China, and beyond are using AI to spread propaganda. (Poorly.) https://www.wired.com/story/openai-threat-report-china-russia-ai-propaganda/
Chatbots Are Entering the Stone Age https://media.wired.com/photos/6657bc992dd651758a2748e5/master/pass/AI-Tool-Use-Fast-Forward-Business-145065467.jpg Anthropic and other big AI startups are teaching chatbots “tool use,” to make them more useful in the workplace. https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-are-entering-the-stone-age/
2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election https://media.wired.com/photos/66575e5d5ac87f378716760d/master/pass/biden_ascii_v07b.jpg AI is already being used and abused in elections around the world. From passive income scams to dead men endorsing their successors, fiction is proving stranger than reality. https://www.wired.com/story/2024-is-the-year-of-generative-ai-elections/
How AI Is Impacting the 2024 Elections https://media.wired.com/photos/6647706851e7fb857b3632da/master/pass/wired%20democracy%20gradient.png More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, WIRED will be tracking every instance of AI's use in and around those campaigns. https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-global-elections/
Chromebooks Will Get Gemini and New Google AI Features https://media.wired.com/photos/6651541b56be637959104b57/master/pass/Chromebook-AI-collage-052024-SOURCE-Julian-Chokkattu.jpg Google is bringing Gemini and a slew of AI-powered features to ChromeOS, and there are about seven new Chromebooks coming this year. https://www.wired.com/story/google-brings-gemini-to-chrome-os-and-chromebooks/
Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms https://media.wired.com/photos/6650e5ca32b8c73c99aeeebb/master/pass/Anduril-Fury-CCA-DoD-Business.jpg The US military aims to maintain its dominance by building autonomous attack drones that collaborate with humans and overwhelm defenses in swarms. https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-is-building-out-the-pentagons-dream-of-deadly-drone-swarms/
Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell https://media.wired.com/photos/66510da84202c942b1061788/master/pass/Quanta_AI-String-Theory-byKouzouSakai-Lede-scaled.jpg Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles—though not yet those of our universe. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-starts-to-sift-through-string-theorys-near-endless-possibilities/
Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI Feud Makes Her an Uncanny Folk Hero https://media.wired.com/photos/664fb3346e1cf949a34c97d1/master/pass/Scarlett-Johansson-OpenAI-Lawsuit-Monitor-Culture-1696445700.jpg Scarlett Johansson’s talents once made her the ideal person to voice an AI. Now, she’s the perfect human to face off against it. https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johanssons-openai-feud-makes-her-an-uncanny-folk-hero/
Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing https://media.wired.com/photos/664e75af62bc1a1607ba10c1/master/pass/Shrinking-AI-Models-Fast-Forward-Business-1494930055.jpg Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts. The technique could open up new use cases for AI. https://www.wired.com/story/pocket-sized-ai-models-unlock-new-era-of-computing/
Inside the Reluctant Fight to Ban Deepfake Ads https://media.wired.com/photos/664e5a5755dbe1fffdd7b1ea/master/pass/politics_lab_campaign_ads_ai_disclosure.jpg Without new rules, campaigns could hoodwink voters with AI-generated ads. And no one really seems to be taking the threat seriously. https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-lukewarm-fight-to-ban-deepfake-ads/
The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ https://media.wired.com/photos/664d1df9f92164c845cbad5a/master/pass/kenya-ai-biden-01.jpg African workers who label AI data or screen social posts for US tech giants are calling on President Biden to raise their plight with Kenya's president, William Ruto, who visits the US this week. https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/
What Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI Could Look Like in Court https://media.wired.com/photos/664cfebe009f782bf0c60a5e/master/pass/Scarlett-Johansson-Oepn-AI-Lawsuit-Business1707035409.jpg If Scarlett Johansson pursues legal action against OpenAI for giving ChatGPT a voice she calls “eerily similar to mine,” she might claim the company breached her right to publicity. https://www.wired.com/story/scarlett-johansson-v-openai-could-look-like-in-court/
Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads https://media.wired.com/photos/664bdc33980aa51a80ac3a0a/master/pass/Google-Overview-AI-Ads-Business-2152425668.jpg Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It's a test of how the company's biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI. https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-overviews-ads/
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside https://media.wired.com/photos/664baa1664e0ebc8ca8bea4f/master/pass/AI-Black-Box-Business-Site-921311988.jpg What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse. https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-black-box-ai-research-neurons-features/
Adobe's AI-Powered Generative Remove Feature in Lightroom Erases Unsightly Objects in Seconds https://media.wired.com/photos/664c9bd1e8dc63065ac1c23d/master/pass/Lightroom-Generative-Remove-Gear-2JB4PAE.jpg Taking a cue from Google's Magic Eraser, Adobe's new trick improves on existing tools with the help of generative AI. https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-lightroom-generative-remove/
The US Is Forming a Global AI Safety Network With Key Allies https://media.wired.com/photos/664ba7a6fa156532bd0aa169/master/pass/Gina-Raimondo-AI-Safety-Business-Alamy-2PRC8BX.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/664bd5c41edaec504878a7cc/master/pass/Scarlett-Johansson-OpenAI-Lawsuit-Business-1492919210.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66464ab5a04a18f4f17f9336/master/pass/YNJ_AI-Talent-Agent.jpeg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6648c504c8ad86e280c2d914/master/pass/R3%20Color-B2P1-2%20(blue-to-pink%20#2).jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66468c3d4f7d6dd40469dd68/master/pass/Ilya%20Sutskever_h_15908077.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66466394b0f3f7567e17cc6e/master/pass/Web_Screenshot%202024-05-13%20at%2010.23.22%E2%80%AFAM.jpg 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) https://media.wired.com/photos/664640db52a96fbdf87a2f33/master/pass/Google-AI-Overviews-GettyImages-828901244.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6643f0fc0d862750ee5fe292/master/pass/business_maven_social_media_serendipity.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6644e7c11055f1e066c3b4ce/master/pass/AI-Chatbots-Fast-Forward-Newsletter-Business-GettyImages-2022303132.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/664277d331c8fc2f87087490/master/pass/WIRED_ONLY-FANS_1.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6643f935a984e349e5fda5a6/master/pass/Ilya-Sutskever-Leaves-OpenAI-Business-1258459705.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6642bebcda5b37a608bac53a/master/pass/0.%20Blog%20header.png 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/662a84cc8d7b95bed51a129c/master/pass/WIRED-JAN_TwishaP_Shameless-Software_FINAL.jpg 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? https://media.wired.com/photos/66425c483aeee12d6ca99835/master/pass/New-ChatGPT-Tier-Gear-GettyImages-2151457871.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66428981da5b37a608bac532/master/pass/HER_MCDHERR_EC023.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66421558ff22bdec82842b90/master/pass/2T2T4GP.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66424e9595c3a662fa97d528/master/pass/Screenshot-2024-05-13-at-10.23.41%E2%80%AFAM.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6629392ea620d99a9e8ea90e/master/pass/evolv-ny-subway-eric-adams.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663e9ce4f862d87f3ab7574c/master/pass/The%20Humane%20AI%20Pin_h_16122702.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663bebcc89124d013b288e25/master/pass/Claude-Advice-Business.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663bc0baa6e8aa6d53b55c2b/master/pass/OpenAI-NSFW-Content-Business-GettyImages-2133941176.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663abab9a6e8aa6d53b55c29/master/pass/AlphaFold-Google-Deepmind-Business-699087466.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663aa297ee09cad274f02602/master/pass/AI-workplace-RS02.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663a6975e9bce18d9ccb794f/master/pass/Artists-v-OpenAI-Business-1778431908.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663a5cc65701544accfd071a/master/pass/Met%20Gala%20AI.png 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6633de0a98970aea706a784e/master/pass/_The%20White%20House%20Is%20Cracking%20Down%20on%20Mail-Order%20DNA%20-%20May%206GettyImages-153525529.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663563ad231b4f48281342dd/master/pass/A-New-Surveillance-Tool-Invades-Border-Towns-Security-GettyImages-2149617416.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6634115c40c3d3a8581d4568/master/pass/%20Cryptominer%20Became%20Gen%20AI%E2%80%99s%20Preferred%20GPU%20Dealer_GettyImages-679606628.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6633e1fca3a7eb4fb0566633/master/pass/Yahoo-Boys-Security-GettyImages-1241008489.jpg “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? https://media.wired.com/photos/6632b993567f2636ab174f47/master/pass/Nick-Bostrom-Business-GettyImages-502680318.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6632b8da9ddd878f29f04941/master/pass/AI-Pivot-to-Boring-Business-GettyImages-1289189102.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6631a1936dc0c77846852ed5/master/pass/Crypto-Money-Laundering-Security-GettyImages-1543076825.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/662fe814044a3fda321afa06/master/pass/20240202_SR_17-Edit_web.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/663009c42dad582417f6279e/master/pass/ChatGPT-Detectors-Gear-GettyImages-108914979.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/65d8e4cbf620a7044c2de43e/master/pass/ChatGPT-Memory-Gear-GettyImages-1471278441.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/662c202d4d4e640b50fb40ed/master/pass/business_humans_algorithms_social_media.jpg 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? https://media.wired.com/photos/662add3cf63289be6b2edb6d/master/pass/cloud_support_gender_gamer.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/662bed24b58cd0cd290d2513/master/pass/WIRED-ai-job-recruiting-RS-03.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/662c4f8eb910b5b5fc2b66cf/master/pass/AI-Productivity-Apps-Gear-GettyImages-1957187674.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/662afaa6686afc207a6e8ae6/master/pass/GettyImages-1811708226.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66299d1dc79850606ceb4921/master/pass/Meta-Llama-3-Fast-Forward-Business.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66298b428b66d85a1ac6162a/master/pass/business_meta_explicit_ai_girlfriend_ads.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6628b7e9614f9528e94caf08/master/pass/rabbit_r1_USB-C_SIM.png 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/662301e548b61faa5f0fae1e/master/pass/V2_shutterstock_413528653.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66228c94fc8b960561270399/master/pass/Deepfake-Blocked-Security-GettyImages-1068953256.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6621ca45ca4df31d889f92ca/master/pass/How-to-Stop-ChatGPTs-Voice-Feature-From-Interrupting-You-GettyImages-1817371209-cropped.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6621be351ebbf4d79be15691/master/pass/GettyImages-1987932445.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66218f7aca4df31d889f92c6/master/pass/AI%20model%20Llama%203%20_h_27.RTSO8P83.jpg 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? https://media.wired.com/photos/66201f863537434a7563783c/master/pass/business_plaintext_angry_girlfriend_ai_chatbot.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/661f0e85a5e870d3fe04b81a/master/pass/security_scammers_deepfake_fraud_nigeria.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/661fea6a440f32c413c45c75/master/pass/New%20atlas.jpg 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’ https://media.wired.com/photos/6618753bc46e8db4e273d1db/master/pass/business_plaintext_ai_regulation_congress.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/66172445418c784409dd692a/master/pass/Mary-Daly-Q&A-Business-2008847890.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6615b353cb7dc3b5f18b2c6c/master/pass/040924-business-Eric-Schmidt-china-ties.jpg 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 https://media.wired.com/photos/6615d5c0dc52e8ec9fd84d8f/master/pass/Opt-Out-of-AI-Security-GettyImages-1354144857.jpg 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/
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