In the year since ChatGPT was released to the public, researchers and experts have warned that the ease with which content can be created using generative AI tools could poison the well, creating a vicious circle where those tools produce content that is then used to train other AI models.
That so-called “model collapse”—which would hollow out any “knowledge” accrued by the chatbots—appears to have come true.
Last week, X user Jax
With only a few weeks to go in 2023, job losses from layoffs continue to mount, meaning the year is going to go out how it began. According to layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, 1,157 tech companies have now laid off 257,778 workers over the course of the year. As for December, the most prominent companies that have laid off employees include:
Etsy
Etsy is the most recent tech company to announce layoffs. On December 13, CEO Josh Silverman informed employees that the com
M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me.
With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films, and books that will become public domain as the year turns to 2024.
In a moment many close observers thought might never come, at least one version of the quintessential piece of intellectual property and perhaps the most iconic character in American pop culture will be free from Disn
Over the past few weeks, the OpenAI saga has played out in ways all too familiar to women in AI and tech. Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI and rapid return based on a tsunami of public Silicon Valley power broker support, reinforced his white male god-like status without questioning exactly what lay behind the ousting and what future guardrails for safety might be necessary.
The reconstituted OpenAI board doubled down on the concept that “only white men get AI,”
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Super Investor Vinod Khosla on our AI future
Veteran venture capitalist Vinod Khosla dropped some pearls of wisdom on an adoring crowd during a brief interview onstage at Fortune’s AI conference in do
If you’re not conducting business experiments with generative AI right now, you’re probably at least thinking about it. Some businesses are exploring hundreds of use cases—and even identifying 5 or 10 that have outsize impacts on the business can be enough to drive real revenue growth, reduce costs, or both.
Those kinds of results make it easy to see why there’s so much hype around generative AI. While it’s important to have guidelines in place to
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Common Sense Privacy, an AI Fund-backed, for-profit spinoff of the nonprofit content and privacy rating organization Common Sense Media, debuted on Wednesday a new set of AI-enabled tools that aim to help startups and other small businesses keep up with ever-changing privacy regulations. Among those tools is a so-called privacy policy wizard that uses large language model (LLM) AI to generate draft privacy policies and offer advice on filling out the privacy “nutrition labels” n
Obesity, by and large, is not a problem in the land of the Little Mermaid and midcentury modern design. In Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, bicycles outnumber cars five to one, people swim laps in Nyhavn Harbor well into September, and—despite a clear fondness for pastries, hot dogs, and alcoholic beverages—apparently few people put on weight. The country has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe, though at 18.4% in 2021, it has risen considerably from 6.1% in 1987.
When middle school math teachers completed an online professional development program that uses artificial intelligence to improve their math knowledge and teaching skills, their students’ math performance improved.
My colleagues and I developed this online professional development program, which relies on a virtual facilitator that can—among other things—present problems to the teacher around teaching math and provide feedback on the teacher’s answers.