Alan Kay was a pioneering computer scientist. In the 1970s, at Xerox PARC, he led the design and development of the first modern computer-desktop interface—ultimately creating the “windows” we spend so much of our time gazing into today. He also spent a lot of time thinking about the future. And it deserves mentioning that he wasn’t scared of AI. Not one bit.
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior,
When LinkedIn launched in 2003, the very idea of sharing your employment history and educational background in public was a bit of a mind-bender. But as the service boomed, millions did just that. LinkedIn went on to become a primary tool used by companies and recruiters to find job candidates. Ever since, it’s had a positive impact on countless careers.
Still, when LinkedIn members summarize their experience, they’ve typically done so in the way employers expectȁ
When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it preferred the stone.
To smooth your wrinkled skirt, would you grab a warm thermos or a hairpin? GPT-3 suggested the hairpin.
And if you need to cover your hair for work in a fast-food restaurant, which would work better, a paper sandwich wrapper or a hamburger bun? GP
When Carter Barnhart was fourteen, she was sexually assaulted. For over two and a half years, she struggled to sleep through the night, grappling with PTSD and anxiety. Finally, she went to Newport Academy, a residential mental health treatment program in California that had just started. Barnhart was patient No. 2 and, at Newport, she found healing. Her freshman year of college, she emailed the founder and asked if she could intern. She would spend the next 11 years working for Newport.
The story has been as exciting as drivers burning rubber and brushing walls to eek out victory in iconic race cars made by the likes of Aston Martin, Ferrari, and McLaren. One cannot underestimate the impact that the Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive has had on the growth of Formula One fandom since its 2019 debut—particularly in the United States. The show, which has now aired five seasons on the streaming giant, has fundamentally altered the sport.
How so? In 2018,
Last month, a photo of Pope Francis wearing a Balenciaga parka shocked the world. The image was posted to Reddit by a user (who was high on magic mushrooms) and, though it looked real enough to fool a large cross-section of Twitter, it was actually created by Midjourney, a generative-AI tool that turns text into images.
But Balenciaga pope is only the tip of the celebrity deepfake iceberg. Users have been using a whole suite of AI tools, including a sophisticated bit of audio clonin
Twitter’s ongoing decline and chaotic confusion continues as the app has now introduced features that block or downplay in the algorithm any posts containing links to newsletter platform Substack.
The change comes hot on the heels of Substack announcing Notes, a feature that allows Substack users to share short-form posts of similar length to tweets that can be interacted with similarly to posts on Twitter, earlier this week. Users currently can’t retweet or reply to t
America’s employers added a solid 236,000 jobs in March, suggesting that the economy remains on solid footing despite the nine interest rate hikes the Federal Reserve has imposed over the past year in its drive to tame inflation.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, just above the 53-year low of 3.4% set in January.
At the same time, some of the details of Friday’s report from the Labor Department raised the possibility that inflationary pressures might be eas
Much remains unknown about the killing of Bob Lee, the 43-year-old MobileCoin executive and Cash App founder who was found fatally stabbed in San Francisco’s downtown Rincon Hill neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
The San Francisco Standard said it had reviewed surveillance footage that showed Lee calling 911 and pleading for help from someone in a parked car, who drove off leaving the tech founder collapsed on the street. Police haven’t made arrests or named a suspec
In recent days, a group of nearly 10,000 scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and academics have signed an open letter calling for a pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. In a short span of time, we have seen huge developments within the AI space, both good and bad. As a computer science engineer, I know firsthand that the innovations we are seeing in AI have been coming for some time. While some developments are quite concerning, if used responsibly, these technologies