Tag: A.I
Thinking About A.I. with StanisÅaw Lem
âWe are going to speak of the future,â the Polish writer StanisÅaw Lem wrote, in âSumma Technologiae,â from 1964, a series of essays, mostly on humanity and the evolution of technology. âYet isnât discoursing about future events a rather inappropriate occupation for those who are lost in the transience of the here and now?â Lem, who died in 2006 at the age of eighty-four, is likely the most widely read writer of science fiction who is not particularly widely read
Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments
Sir Lucian Grainge, the chairman and C.E.O. of Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world, is curious, empathetic, and, if not exactly humble, a master of the humblebrag. His superpower is his humanity. A sixty-three-year-old Englishman, who was knighted in 2016 for his contributions to the music industry and has topped Billboard’s Power 100 list of music-industry players several times in the past decade, Grainge is compact and a bit chubby, with alert eyes behind owlish glasses.
A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat
It is powered into flight by a rocket engine. It can fly a distance equal to the width of China. It has a stealthy design and is capable of carrying missiles that can hit enemy targets far beyond its visual range.
But what really distinguishes the Air Force’s pilotless XQ-58A Valkyrie experimental aircraft is that it is run by artificial intelligence, putting it at the forefront of efforts by the U.S. military to harness the capacities of an emerging technology
A Zoom Call, Fake Names and an A.I. Presentation Gone Awry
Arthur AI, an artificial intelligence company in New York, received a message in April last year from a start-up called OneOneThree. Yan Fung, OneOneThree’s head of technology, said he was interested in buying Arthur AI’s technology and wanted a demonstration.
A week later, Arthur AI held a Zoom meeting with Mr. Fung to show him its software, according to emails and a video recording viewed by The New York Times. When Mr. Fung’s colleague joined the call, the Arthur AI
Big Tech Rebounds and Preps for Transformative A.I. Investments
A year ago, the tech industry’s prospects looked bleak. Google’s profit dropped. Shares of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, were in free fall. Business growth at Amazon had slowed to its lowest level in two decades.
But what looked like an industrywide bust appears to have been more of a correction. The most recent quarter was surprisingly strong for tech’s biggest companies. Meta’s and Google’s ad businesses rebounded. Microsoft’s cloud computing business continued to expand. So did Amazon’s e-commerce business. Apple,
The Temptations of A.I. Companionship in “Rachels Don’t Run”
In a world of shifting, new technologies, how do we stay connected with one another? That’s one of the questions at the heart of “Rachels Don’t Run,” a short film directed by the French American filmmaker Joanny Causse. The film takes place entirely in an empty office, late at night, some time in the near future. Leah (Sera Barbieri), a customer-support agent for an A.I.-companionship company called Iris, sits alone at a sparingly lit desk, monitoring calls and dealing with
If A.I. Handled Delicate Situations in Your Life
Telling someone that I gave them an S.T.I.
A.I.: It is I, your recent sexual partner. I enjoyed meeting you on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at Lucky Saloon. Subsequently, an S.T.I. test has yielded a positive result. One in twenty females aged eighteen to twenty-four has an S.T.I., so your exposure is statistically likely, as a sexually active heterosexual male. I’ve hyperlinked a C.D.C. fact sheet for your reference. Please reach out if you would like to sing a duet
Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic figurines: a lion, a whale and a dinosaur.
An engineer gave the robot an instruction: “Pick up the extinct animal.”
The robot whirred for a moment, then its arm extended and its claw opened and descended. It grabbed the dinosaur.
Until very recently, this demonstration, which I witnessed during a podcast interview at Google’s robotics division in Mountain View, Calif., last week, would have been
How Do We Ensure an A.I. Future That Allows for Human Thriving?
When OpenAI released its artificial-intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, to the public at the end of last year, it unleashed a wave of excitement, fear, curiosity and debate that has only grown as rival competitors have accelerated their efforts and members of the public have tested out new A.I.-powered technology. Gary Marcus, an emeritus professor of psychology and neural science at New York University and an A.I. entrepreneur himself, has been one of the most prominent — and critical — voices in
Bluesky Has the Juice, A.I. Jobs Apocalypse and Hard Questions
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email [email protected] with any questions. 2 00:00:03,270 —> 00:00:08,170 I had a viral sandwich skeet. I got more feedback on this sandwich than I’ve gotten on any post on my Twitter account in months.
(LAUGHING) First of all, your sandwich photo got 20 likes. OK?