This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark
Nearly 1,500 US police departments operate drones but only about a dozen routinely dispatch them in response to 911 calls, according to ACLU research. Drone [more…]
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What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
But then, as statecraft in the real world came to favor game theory over traditional diplomacy, the metagame likewise shifted. Online players were no longer [more…]
Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool
Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty [more…]
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet [more…]
The ChatGPT App Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that unleashed ChatGPT on the world last November, is making the chatbot app a lot more chatty. An upgrade to [more…]
Why Tech Bros and Politicians Can’t Really Connect
Every few months we get to see a tech dude offer excruciating testimony to grumpy members of Congress. The tech dude tries, with varying degrees [more…]
Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
“They will learn from the workflow in which they’re engaged,” Autor says. “Often people will be in the process of working with a tool, and [more…]
How ChatGPT Can Help You Do More With PDFs
If your PDFs aren’t hosted online, then AskYourPDF can upload them for you, and you can then submit queries through ChatGPT. You can ask for [more…]
Smarter AI Assistants Could Make It Harder to Stay Human
Researchers and futurists have been talking for decades about the day when intelligent software agents will act as personal assistants, tutors, and advisers. Apple produced [more…]
Enough Talk, ChatGPT—My New Chatbot Friend Can Get Things Done
I recently needed to contact the CEO of a startup called Lindy, a company developing personal assistants powered by artificial intelligence. Instead of looking for [more…]
