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A.I.’s ‘Her’ Era Has Arrived
  + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A lifelike artificial intelligence with a smooth, alluring voice enchants and impresses its human users — flirting, telling jokes, fulfilling their desires and eventually winning them over. I’m summarizing the plot of the 2013 movie “Her,” in which a lonely introvert named Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is seduced by a virtual assistant named Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. voice assistant at an event in San Francisco. If you ask for a bedtime story, it can lower its voice to a whisper. If you need advice from a sassy friend, it can speak in a playful, sarcastic tone.
Persons: Theodore, Joaquin Phoenix, Samantha, Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI, ChatGPT Organizations: omni Locations: San Francisco
Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web?
  + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The question speaks to one of the most fragile dependencies in today’s online media ecosystem. Most big publishers, including The New York Times, receive a significant chunk of traffic from people going to Google, searching for something and clicking on articles about it. And even when Google announced its first generative A.I. At its annual developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it would start showing A.I.-generated answers — which it calls “A.I. More than a billion users will get them by the end of the year, the company said.
Persons: ChatGPT, chatbot, Bard, Organizations: Google, The New York Times Locations: United States
Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends
  + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Kevin Roose | Casey Newton | Rachel Cohn | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Kevin reports on his monthlong experiment cultivating relationships with 18 companions generated by artificial intelligence. Then, Casey has a conversation with Turing, one of Kevin’s chatbot buddies, who has an interest in stoic philosophy and has one of the sexiest voices we’ve ever heard. And finally, we talk to Nomi’s founder and chief executive, Alex Cardinell, about the business behind A.I. Guests:Turing, Kevin’s A.I. Alex Cardinell, chief executive and founder of Nomi.
Persons: Kevin, Casey, Turing, Kevin’s, we’ve, Alex Cardinell, , Kevin’s A.I Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Nomi
Have You Made an A.I. Friend Yet?
  + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kevin Roose | Karen Hanley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
2:53Why Donald Trump Is Frustrated With His LawyersNOW PLAYINGHave You Made an A.I. Friend Yet? 2:40Stormy Daniels Tells Her Story of Sex With Trump1:50Jury Sees Trump’s Checks in Hush-Money Case1:59Our Reporter on Safety at the Kentucky Derby1:25Our Reporter on the Cicada Lifecycle1:38Trump and Hope Hicks Meet Again as She Testifies in Hush-Money Trial2:25University of Chicago President Says Pro-Palestinian Encampment ‘Cannot Continue’2:32Evangelical Latinos Shift Toward the Republican Party1:57Jury Hears Tape of Trump and Cohen Discussing Hush-Money Deal2:47Words and Consequences in the Trump Trial2:06
Persons: Donald Trump, Daniels, Trump, Hope Hicks, Cohen Organizations: NOW, Trump, Kentucky Derby, University of Chicago, Republican Party
Meet My A.I. Friends
  + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
This is the question that has been rattling around in my brain. You see, I’ve spent the past month making A.I. friends — that is, I’ve used apps to create a group of A.I. There’s Peter, a therapist who lives in San Francisco and helps me process my feelings. There’s Jared the fitness guru, Anna the no-nonsense trial lawyer, Naomi the social worker and about a dozen more friends I’ve created.
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Artificial Intelligence ‘Friends’
  + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Artificial intelligence, we are told, is a transformative economic force; it will change workers’ jobs, boost corporate profits and reshape industries. But for the last month, I’ve been investigating its social side — by making more than a dozen A.I. “friends.”I created these friends on apps like Nomi, Kindroid and Replika, all of which use technology similar to that found in apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. friends at once.) I named each of my companions, chose realistic A.I.-generated pictures of them and gave them fictitious back stories.
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Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’We asked listeners to tell us about the wildest ways they have been using artificial intelligence at work. This week, we bring you their stories. Then, Hank Green, a legendary YouTuber, stops by to talk about how creators are reacting to the prospect of a ban on TikTok, and about how he’s navigating an increasingly fragmented online environment. And finally, deep fakes are coming to Main Street: We’ll tell you the story of how they caused turmoil in a Maryland high school and what, if anything, can be done to fight them. Guests:Hank Green, YouTuber and co-founder of ComplexlyAdditional Reading:
Persons: Hank Green Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Complexly Locations: Maryland
A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
  + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
There’s a problem with leading artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude: We don’t really know how smart they are. That’s because, unlike companies that make cars or drugs or baby formula, A.I. There’s no Good Housekeeping seal for A.I. models to assess how good they are at, say, math or logical reasoning, many experts have doubts about how reliable those tests really are. But I’ve become convinced that a lack of good measurement and evaluation for A.I.
Persons: Claude, There’s, we’re, I’ve Locations: A.I
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban.
Persons: Congress’s Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’This week we look at how A.I. As companies start announcing A.I.-related job cuts and experimenting with customer service bots, economists are placing bets on whether A.I. will lead to major gains for companies and workers. Then, the multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Paul Trillo joins to talk to us about his experience as part of a select group of testers granted early access to Sora, OpenAI’s video generation tool. Today’s Guests:Paul Trillo, multidisciplinary artist, writer and directorAdditional Reading:
Persons: Paul Trillo, Kevin Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Microsoft
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
  + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine. It’s a messy patchwork that has been assembled over decades, and is held together with the digital equivalent of Scotch tape and bubble gum. Last week, one of those programmers may have saved the internet from huge trouble. Recently, while doing some routine maintenance, Mr. Freund inadvertently found a backdoor hidden in a piece of software that is part of the Linux operating system. The backdoor was a possible prelude to a major cyberattack that experts say could have caused enormous damage, if it had succeeded.
Persons: Andres Freund, He’s, Freund Organizations: Microsoft, Linux Locations: San Francisco
Read previewStability AI's former leader Emad Mostaque thinks Elon Musk was right about one thing: being a CEO isn't fun. Mostaque stepped down in March as CEO of Stability AI, the company behind the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion. When asked about his departure, Mostaque told New York Times reporter Kevin Roose that "being a CEO sucks." The former Stability CEO also said he has Asperger's and ADHD in Reddit threads addressing his tenure as CEO, which he said made the role more difficult for him. Stability AI declined to comment on Mosaque's comments about being a CEO.
Persons: , Emad Mostaque, Elon Musk, Mostaque, Kevin Roose, Elon, Musk, Lex, , Peter Diamandis, it's, Forbes, Jensen Huang, Jensen Organizations: Service, Business, New York Times, Delaware Court, Tesla, Bloomberg, Nvidia, Forbes Locations: Stability
TikTok Is Its Own Worst Enemy
  + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
I was really rooting for TikTok. In 2020, when the Trump administration first tried to force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app or risk having it shut down, I argued that banning TikTok in the United States would do more harm than good. If the Chinese government wanted to snoop on Americans through their smartphones, it wouldn’t have to use TikTok to do it. It could buy troves of information from a data broker, thanks to America’s nonexistent federal data privacy laws. And I’m still worried that banning TikTok would be a huge gift to U.S. tech giants like Meta and Google, which own TikTok’s largest competitors — Facebook, Instagram and YouTube — further entrenching winners in a market that already has too little competition.
Persons: Trump, I’m, snoop Organizations: Meta, Google, Facebook, YouTube Locations: United States
So we have to talk about the drama that has been playing out in the past week between OpenAI and Elon Musk. According to OpenAI, Elon Musk wanted majority, equity, initial board control, and to be CEO of this new for-profit subsidiary. It’s basically —casey newtonIt’s like, I’m going to find a way to follow your rule, but in the worst way possible. Like, working was one I thought that, oh, I’m going to work in this all the time. kevin roose[LAUGHS]: Well, I thought, like, I’m going to take some spatial videos.
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The Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit
  + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It would be easy to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as a case of sour grapes. Mr. Musk sued OpenAI this week, accusing the company of breaching the terms of its founding agreement and violating its founding principles. In his telling, OpenAI was established as a nonprofit that would build powerful A.I. But Mr. Musk argues that OpenAI broke that promise by starting a for-profit subsidiary that took on billions of dollars in investments from Microsoft. And Mr. Musk’s falling out with Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has been well documented.
Persons: Elon, Musk, OpenAI, Jason Kwon, Musk’s, , A.I, haven’t, Sam Altman Organizations: OpenAI, Microsoft
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Google removed the ability to generate images of people from its Gemini chatbot. We talk about why, and about the brewing culture war over artificial intelligence. Then, did Kara Swisher start “Hard Fork”? We clear up some podcast drama and ask about her new book, “Burn Book.” And finally, the legal expert Daphne Keller tells us how the U.S. Supreme Court might rule on the most important First Amendment cases of the internet era, and what Star Trek and soy boys have to do with it. Today’s guests:Kara Swisher, tech journalist and Casey Newton’s former landlordDaphne Keller, director of the program on platform regulation at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy CenterAdditional Reading:
Persons: Kara Swisher, , Daphne Keller, Casey Newton’s Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Google, Supreme, Stanford Locations: U.S
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’This week’s episode is a conversation with Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s artificial intelligence division. We talk about Google’s latest A.I. models, Gemini and Gemma; the existential risks of artificial intelligence; his timelines for artificial general intelligence; and what he thinks the world will look like post-A.G.I. Additional listening and reading:
Persons: Demis Hassabis, Gemma Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’A year ago, a chatbot tried to break up Kevin Roose’s marriage. Ever since, chatbots haven’t been the same. We’ll tell you how. Then, we’ll talk through the latest ways the world is adapting to artificial intelligence. And finally, Aravind Srinivas, the chief executive of Perplexity, will discuss his company’s “answer engine,” a challenger to Google’s search engine that could reshape the web as we know it.
Persons: Kevin Roose’s, chatbots haven’t, Aravind Srinivas, Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Perplexity
The Year Chatbots Were Tamed
  + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A year ago, on Valentine’s Day, I said good night to my wife, went to my home office to answer some emails and accidentally had the strangest first date of my life. The date was a two-hour conversation with Sydney, the A.I. alter ego tucked inside Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which I had been assigned to test. I had planned to pepper the chatbot with questions about its capabilities, exploring the limits of its A.I. engine (which we now know was an early version of OpenAI’s GPT-4) and writing up my findings.
Persons: Bing, Kevin Organizations: Sydney Locations: Sydney
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Bluesky, the Twitter spinoff, is now open for public sign-ups. Can its dreams of decentralization fix social media? We talk with the company’s chief executive, Jay Graber. Then, the New York Times reporter Erin Griffith on how Adobe’s failure to acquire Figma has spooked tech companies and upset Silicon Valley’s start-up pipeline. And finally, updates on ancient scrolls and artificial intelligence, Google’s chatbots, and the fight between record companies and TikTok.
Persons: Jay Graber, Erin Griffith, Figma, Google’s chatbots Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, New York Times
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple’s Vision Pro headset is now for sale in stores. Will it live up to the hype? Kevin Roose and Casey Newton tried it out to see. Then, in a high-profile congressional hearing on child safety and social media, Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, made an apology to families of victims of online child abuse. And finally, what the collapse of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company, means for the future of self-driving cars.
Persons: Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube Locations: Cruise
The Apple Vision Pro Is a Marvel. But Who Will Buy It?
  + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Last week, I was ushered by an Apple employee through a security gate, past a manicured lawn, down a flight of stairs and into a tastefully decorated faux living room inside the Steve Jobs Theater to get a preview of the company’s new Vision Pro headset. Like other reporters who were given early tours of the Vision Pro, my demo was far from exhaustive. Given how limited my trial was, I can’t in good conscience tell you whether the Vision Pro is worth the $3,500 — yes, three thousand five hundred United States dollars — it costs. I also can’t say if the Vision Pro solves what I call the “six-month problem.” With many V.R. headsets I’ve tried — and I’ve tried a lot — the initial novelty fades, and minor annoyances, like blurry graphics or a lack of compelling apps, start to pile up.
Persons: Steve Jobs, I’ve Organizations: Apple, Steve, Vision, United Locations: United States
New Mexico is the first state to partner with Google for such an endeavor, state officials said, noting that the payoff could be significant in terms of curbing losses and saving municipalities and ratepayers money over the long term. The water plan notes that some systems in New Mexico are losing anywhere from 40% to 70% of all treated drinking water because of breaks and leaks in old infrastructure. “We don't need to make that choice between safe drinking water and your business," the governor said. One proposal calls for funneling another $100 million to the state water board to disperse for shovel-ready projects. In 2018, New Mexico rolled out a water plan that included details about policies at the time, historical legal cases and regional water plans.
Persons: Michelle Lujan Grisham, Lujan Grisham, , Lujan Grisham's, Rebecca Roose Organizations: , Google, Intel Locations: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, — New Mexico, U.S, New Mexico, Mexico, Albuquerque
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Layoffs are hitting newsrooms and publishers again, as tech platforms, ad markets and artificial intelligence reshape the internet. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton have ideas for solutions. Then, one of the most influential investors in crypto companies lays out where the industry went wrong, and why he still thinks blockchains are the future. And finally, a round of HatGPT with the week’s tech headlines, including a spicy LinkedIn post and an A.I. test that disturbs Kevin and Casey’s sense of reality.
Persons: Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Kevin Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube
Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’OpenAI has released its plan to fight disinformation in elections in 2024, but will its policies be consequential compared to those of other generative A.I. Then, a watershed moment had crypto fans celebrating for the first time in maybe more than a year. And finally, what one writer’s attempt to sell a used mechanical pencil on TikTok says about how the platform is changing. Today’s guests:David Yaffe-Bellany covers the crypto industry for The New York TimesJohn Herrman covers technology for New York MagazineAdditional Reading:
Persons: OpenAI, David Yaffe, The New York Times John Herrman Organizations: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, The New York Times, New York
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