The “Chat” in ChatGPT’s name neatly encapsulates a major element of why OpenAI’s AI-infused assistant has had such epoch-shifting impact. We’ve been using PCs and phones to chat with humans for years—at least since the era of AOL Instant Messenger. Talking to a piece of software, using a largely similar interface, is not that vast a mental leap.
And yet ChatGPT’s chat-centricity is also a bit of a stumbling block. Not every task lends itself to a pure back-and-forth dialog. Writing
As people with tax filing extensions prepare for the Internal Revenue Service’s October 15 deadline, and others begin to think about their returns due next April, tax prep services are touting AI tools that can help answer questions you have and help you file faster and more accurately.
H&R Block has, since December 2023, offered people filing through its online products a tool it calls
Facebook was born as a social networking tool exclusively for Harvard students. These days you’d be hard-pressed to find many U.S. college students on the platform.
Over the past decade, Facebook usership among U.S. teens dropped from 71% to 33%. A recently announced redesign attempts to recapture these young users, emphasizing already popular aspects li
Where there’s water, there’s life. At least on Earth. So, do the same rules apply off-world? We sent the Perseverance rover to an ancient Martian lakebed to gather clues of past life. By that logic, could a probe to a presumed icy ocean on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, find potential for current life?
That’s the hope propelling the Europa Clipper, the largest NASA spacecraft developed for a planetary mission and the
As Election Day approaches, concerns about voter accuracy and the upholding of Democracy are mounting. Bradley Tusk, a political strategist and former Uber adviser, proposes a solution: mobile voting. Just as Uber revolutionized how we catch a ride home, Tusk argues that mobile voting could eliminate friction from the basic civil right to vote, and in the process, diffuse the nation’s divisive political reality.
Epic Games scored a massive victory against Google Monday, when the judge overseeing the case issued his final ruling, ordering the company to largely open up its Google Play app store to competition for the next three years.
The ruling essentially ticked off every item on Epic’s
Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revo
Fourteen attorneys general sued TikTok on Tuesday, alleging that the company created an intentionally addictive app that harmed young people and misrepresented the effectiveness of its safety tools.
The bipartisan coalition, each filing separate suits in their own state jurisdiction, is working “to stop TikTok from using these harmful and exploitative tactics,” a
At one point in an influencer’s career or another, controversy will seek them out. For popular feel-good TikToker Ophelia Nichol, also known as “Mama Tot,” that moment is now.
The controversy came about when Nichol, who has 12.8 million followers on the platform, shared a video criticizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) response to Hurricane Helene. The now-deleted post, which has since been downloaded and w