Will ChatGPT take your job — and millions of others?
Al Jazeera English · 7 minIt is the whiz-kid of the artificial intelligence (AI) world that others are trying to emulate.
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Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’
The Guardian · 11 minJaron Lanier, the godfather of virtual reality and the sage of all things web, is nicknamed the Dismal Optimist. And there has never been a time we’ve needed his dismal optimism more.
People Are Creating Records of Fake Historical Events Using AI
VICE · 5 minThe Midjourney subreddit is now being flooded with images that depict images of historical events like “The infamous Blue Plague Incident" that occurred in the 1970s in the Soviet Union, the “July 2012 solar superstorm and blackout” in the U.S., and “The 2001 Great Cascadia 9.
The Data Delusion
The New Yorker · 16 minWe’ve uploaded everything anyone has ever known onto a worldwide network of machines. What if it doesn’t have all the answers?
ChatGPT Is About to Revolutionize the Economy. We Need to Decide What That Looks Like.
MIT Technology Review · 19 minNew large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.
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Will ChatGPT Become Your Everything App?
New York Magazine · 5 minOn Thursday, OpenAI announced plug-ins for ChatGPT, giving a small group of companies a chance to connect their software directly with the service.
Google and Microsoft are bringing AI to Word, Excel, Gmail and more. It could boost productivity for us – and cybercriminals
The Conversation · 4 minGoogle and Microsoft are on a mission to remove the drudgery from computing, by bringing next-generation AI tools as add-ons to existing services.
ChatGPT Gets a Computer
Stratechery · 16 minA simple image. Two boats, and a big ocean. Perhaps it’s a race, and one boat is winning — until it isn’t, of course. Rest assured there is breathless coverage of every twist and turn, and skippers are alternately held as heroes and villains, and nothing in between.
When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches
briankrebs · 6 minWeb hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites.
ChatGPT can now access the internet and run the code it writes
New Atlas · 4 minLanguage model AIs teach themselves the arts of communication and problem solving based on a limited set of training data. In the case of GPT-4, that data is quite out of date, with the cutoff being late 2021.
AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it
The Conversation · 6 minChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to explaining competing theories about the nature of evil.
Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider
briankrebs · 8 minA new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.
How to use the new Bing (and how it's different from ChatGPT)
ZDNet · 4 minMicrosoft's Bing has struggled for years to gain a foothold among search engines. But the company's recent deep dive into AI is breathing new life into it with its AI-powered Bing Chat feature.
How to Print Text Messages From Android
How-To Geek · 4 minJustin Duino / How-To GeekThe simplest way to print text messages from Android is to take screenshots of the messages, put them on a blank document, and print it. There are also third-party apps for creating text transcripts, which you can then print.
Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down
IEEE · 4 minIs the future of social media decentralized? That question might’ve felt absurd a few years ago, but the Fediverse is challenging long-held assumptions about how social media should work.
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
The Verge · 51 minEugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era. The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls.
5 must-have productivity apps for Mac
Cult of Mac · 5 minI’m going to show you five ways you can instantly boost your productivity on your Mac. You might not have thought your Mac was capable of these advanced features. But in my opinion, the Mac’s reputation for being un-customizable is misunderstood.
The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived
New York Magazine · 6 minWith the release of tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT, Google — once the presumptive industry leader in artificial-intelligence research — suddenly finds itself playing catch-up.
How to Use ChatGPT With Siri on Your iPhone
MakeUseOf · 4 minWith ChatGPT being all the rage today, Apple users are likely wondering how to access it on their iPhones. For those of you who aren't aware, ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot that allows you to have human-like conversations.
OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet
TechCrunch · 3 minOpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web.
How to stream hi-res music from your phone
Android Central · 6 minTech usually evolves to make things better, but that's debatable when it comes to audio in the digital age, where CDs were once a cut above the cassette tapes and vinyl records that preceded them. Downloadable MP3s cut back on quality to go for quantity when storage was always in short supply.
Rewind’s new feature brings ChatGPT to your personal information
The Verge · 6 minThe idea of a personal search engine is a powerful and enticing one.
The Download: AI’s gold rush, and how to regulate generative models
MIT Technology Review · 4 minThis is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
Google Is About to Unleash AI for Gmail and Google Docs
Gizmodo · 3 minGoogle announced it’s finally unleashing its generative AI tools Tuesday, bringing a set of features to Gmail and Google Docs that will automatically create drafts based on simple prompts.