In early July, Meta rolled out a new feature where anyone using its AI app could tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their…
Category: Primers
AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet
If you think an artificial intelligence model running on thousands of cutting-edge computer chips is smart, allow me to introduce you to the concept of…
Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI, has released its first model, called Inkling. The startup’s new model is open-weight,…
The Apple FaceID Veteran Building a Frontier AI Model for the Human Brain
The co-inventor of Apple’s FaceID and Vision Pro technology has spent the last six years building a frontier artificial intelligence model that could one day…
My Ebike Delivery Went Missing. When I Tried to Recover It, I Ended Up in Chatbot Hell
A few months ago, my fiancée and I splurged on a pair of ebikes. We live in an especially hilly area of Atlanta, which is…
OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
A group of rank-and-file OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a super PAC pushing for stricter regulations on frontier AI labs. Guardrails Alliance,…
YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
Most mainstream social media platforms have strict guidelines preventing the dissemination of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), or sexually explicit photos and videos. But a new…
This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
Gowanus the media puppet probably shouldn’t even be talking to me. Made of literal garbage—his origin story is that he was born in a dumpster…
The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
In the 60 years that ELIZA has been influencing computation and culture, conventional accounts portray it as the earliest example of what we now call…
DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who were working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used artificial intelligence to…