Artificial Intelligence
Vox’s coverage of how AI is shaping everything from text and image generation to how we live.
The new AI chat bot is available to “trusted testers” for now and will be released to the public in the “coming weeks.”
What can Napster tell us about the future?
The software stalwart’s big investment in AI could make it cutting-edge again.
The reported $10 billion investment in OpenAI will keep the hottest AI company on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
Between ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, AI suddenly feels mainstream.
Can tech bros save the Pentagon? The messy tale of Rebellion Defense.
Here’s why you’ve been hearing so much about ChatGPT.
AI gets smarter, more capable, and more world-transforming every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing.
Issues at Tesla are piling up while its boss is distracted by his new company.
Researchers are using drones, AI, and digital recorders to create a “zoological version of Google Translate.”
How a personal experience with facial recognition tech sparked a broad campaign for algorithmic justice.
Predicting the pace of AI intelligence is the first step to knowing what we should do about it.
From AI to bioengineered risks, Jason Matheny studies what governments will face in the coming years.
From mastering games to decoding proteins, Hassabis is shepherding the next generation of artificial intelligence.
DALL-E and other models keep making art that ignores traditions from the rest of the world.
A group of robot makers recently declared that they’re against the “weaponization” of their robots.
A brief guide to the weird and revolutionary world of quantum computers.
There’s a way to make civilization extinction-proof. But it won’t be easy.
It’s a conspiracy theorist obsessed with Genghis Khan, and that’s not even the weird part.
AI is slowly getting better at household chores.
Self-driving boats are now crossing oceans.
How do ideas about faith and God influence conversations about artificial intelligence?
Receiving signals from extraterrestrial civilizations could pose an existential risk. Really.
A Google engineer became convinced a large language model had become sentient and touched off a debate about how we should think about artificial intelligence.
Installing advanced security tech doesn’t appear to stop these tragedies, but it can harm students in other ways.
How programmers turned the internet into a paintbrush.
Our batting average in forecasting 2021.
Meet Delphi, an AI that tries to predict how humans respond to ethical quandaries.
A top Pentagon software official recently quit his job, claiming that the US is dragging its heels.
Concerns about features like Autopilot aren’t going unnoticed in Washington.
GPT-3 is a smart and poetic AI. It also says terrible things about Muslims.
Residents of Arizona and Georgia will be the first to try out a new kind of biometric ID system.
Customers are largely unaware.
Privacy experts aren’t so keen on the idea.
Six months after Timnit Gebru left, Google’s ethical artificial intelligence team is still in a state of upheaval.
Lemonade tweeted about what it means to be an AI-first insurance company. It left a sour taste in many customers’ mouths.
Google announces new search features every year, but this time feels different.
Some powerful tech has landed on the red planet.
Surveillance software for remote learning is drawing criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers.
Timnit Gebru says she was pushed out of the company; now some are worried it will have a chilling effect on academics in tech.