You ever stare at something you wrote and just… sigh? Like, yeah that technically says what I meant, but it reads like it was written by someone running on autopilot in a gray cubicle somewhere, counting the minutes till lunch? That’s exactly the mood I was in when I stumbled onto Rephrasy.ai. I was deep

Many media executives are betting the future of the industry on artificial intelligence, going as far as replacing journalists in an effort to keep costs down and cash in on the hype. The result of these efforts so far has left a lot to be desired. We’ve come across countless examples of publications inadvertently publishing

As if the institution of political polling weren’t already fraught enough, pollsters are now surveying AI instead of real people to cut costs and save time. As new research demonstrates, AI is clearly not up to the job — but that probably won’t stop any firms who’ve bought in to continue doing so. In a

When it comes to AI, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more groveling cheerleader than the humble CEO. As hype around the software grows, business execs have become astonishingly comfortable sharing their hopes that AI will soon make human labor a thing of the past. Now, even as Wall Street begins to reckon with the

AI is dominating the economy and at the top of policy agendas. Ads for it are everywhere. Your favorite artist is probably experimenting with it. And as hundreds of billions of dollars get poured into the tech, it can feel like the whole world is holding its breath for when it somehow becomes superintelligent and

For all its hype, artificial intelligence isn’t without its psychological, environmental, and even spiritual hazards. Perhaps the most pressing concern on an individual level, though, is that it puts users on the hook for a nearly infinite number of legal hazards — even at work, as it turns out. A recent breakdown by The Register

If you thought tech companies were your overlords now, wait till you hear about this wonky piece of legislation being cooked up in Colorado. As The Lever reports, a bill proposed in the state’s legislature last year would make it outright illegal for individuals to sue AI companies for violating the Colorado Consumer Protection Act,

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 London—events the developer didn’t know had actually happened until he Googled them. “I was interested to see if a protest had actually occurred in 1834

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that’s normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle actions that produce it. A patient has to physically attempt to speak to make these implants work, which is tiresome for severely paralyzed people.