ChatGPT reaching 800 million users in 17 months: unprecedented. The number of companies and the rate at which so many others are hitting high annual recurring revenue rates: also unprecedented. The speed at which costs of usage are dropping: unprecedented. While the costs of training a model (also unprecedented) is Read more…
A 15-year-old asked the question — receiving an answer from an associate professor of psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. They write (on The Conversation) that “As a brain scientist who studies perception, I fully expect mind uploading to one day be a reality. But as of today, we’re nowhere Read more…
This month, millions of young people will graduate from college, and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence. That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over Read more…
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…