A 21-year-old’s startup got a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator — after building their web site and prototype mostly with “vibe coding”. “It really caught on, this idea that people are no longer checking line by line the code that AI is producing, but just kind of telling it what Read more…
How does it feel to be replaced by a bot? Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales “One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, ‘Just put it in ChatGPT….’ [My manager] stressed that my job was safe. Six weeks later, I was called to a meeting with HR. They told Read more…
We’ve officially entered the age of watching robots clobber each other in fighting rings. A kick-boxing competition was staged Sunday in Hangzhou, China using four robots from Unitree Robotics. (The robots were named “AI Strategist”, “Silk Artisan”, “Armored Mulan”, and “Energy Guardian”.) The robots weren’t acting autonomously just yet, as Read more…
Thursday Anthropic’s CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN’s senior business writer dismisses that as “all part of the AI hype machine,” pointing out that Amodei “didn’t cite any Read more…
Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence [non-paywalled source], resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday. Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of Read more…
In a landmark ruling advancing efforts to hold major polluters accountable for transnational climate-related harms, on May 28 a German court concluded that a corporation can be held liable under civil law for its proportional contribution to global climate change, Climate Rights International said today. Filed in 2015, the case Read more…
Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company’s ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot available to all residents free of charge, though a final deal has not been reached. An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan Read more…