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Things Get Strange When AI Starts Training Itself
Updated at 11:52 a.m. ET on February 16, 2024
ChatGPT exploded into the world in the fall of 2022, sparking a race toward ever more advanced artificial intelligence: GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and so many others. Just yesterday, OpenAI unveiled a model called Sora, the latest to instantly generate short videos from written prompts. But for all the dazzling tech demos and promises, development of the fundamental technology has slowed.
The most advanced and attention-grabbing AI programs, especially language
Ayad Akhtar: AI Ad Tech Is Warping Our Minds
This essay has been adapted from a lecture delivered at the Newark Public Library in honor of Philip Roth.
Something unnatural is afoot. Our affinities are increasingly no longer our own, but rather are selected for us for the purpose of automated economic gain. The automation of our cognition and the predictive power of technology to monetize our behavior, indeed our very thinking, is transforming not only our societies and discourse with one another, but