Before being fired five days into her stint as White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia spent much of the day attempting to explain her past.…
Category: Primers
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
During four decades of studying the effects of interaction with computers, Sherry Turkle has developed a reputation as a careful if critical social scientist who…
AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content
Last week, the stand-up comedian Julia Jasunas was on Instagram when she got a DM from a fellow comic. Did she know, her friend wrote,…
AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science
Last week, I attended a talk at MIT by Neil Thompson, who studies progress in computing and artificial intelligence. Over the course of just half…
My Friend Has No Soul
“Now feels like a great time to drop the small talk and argue about something deeply interesting,” Sage just suddenly spouted one day while sitting…
Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
Say you’re a guy who reads WIRED—you know a thing or two about artificial intelligence. You recognize the names of well-known people developing AI, like…
AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity
“The bad news is the vast majority of AI models that are available—closed and open—are providing uplift to quite obvious terrorist prompts,” Hadley said. The…
An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive…