I recently met with some brilliant Russian mathematicians who showed me a way for artificial intelligence models to communicate via something akin to machine telepathy.…
Category: Primers
The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other
Though AI has seeped into every step of the job hunt for both applicants and recruiters, it has taken time to catch on in interviews.…
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Pangram is an AI startup with 24 employees, headquartered above a Popeyes in Brooklyn. It has raised $13 million to date—about 0.0072 percent of what…
OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI…
Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App
Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid…
You Know Who Really Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters
On the job review platform Glassdoor, one faction hates artificial intelligence more than any other. “Pushing AI to the point that you are asking humans…
Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored
Whoop has made screen-free wearables since its first proper release in 2015, but the shift in what Whoop considers itself to be about mirrors the…
The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn
You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week,…
How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer
It’s no exaggeration to say the large language models that power AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing the world. Many of us are…
AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
Don’t be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. When…