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‘Like a computer in my heart’: how AI poetry betrays our desire for human connection

Could I but ride indefinite As doth the meadow-bee And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me, I’d soar above the verdant hills, In search of hidden glades, Where sunlight filters through the trees, And dances in the shades. The breeze would be my constant friend, The…

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Gen Z’s nostalgia for '2016 vibes' reveals something deeper: a protest against the world and economy they inherited

In 2016, millennials were hanging onto the last gasp of their youth—and so was the internet, in retrospect.

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Interview with Roblox CEO kicks off with an unbelievable answer about its predator problem being 'not just a problem, but an opportunity,' and somehow just gets crazier from there

Whose idea was this? Oh, it was Baszucki's.

PC Gamer

Betting in Roblox sounds ‘very fun’ to its chief executive and is a ‘brilliant idea’ if done in ‘educational way’

The CEO shared his take on prediction markets in Roblox.

Destructoid

OpenAI execs whine about the New York Times lawsuit and user privacy during live NYT event, get roasted by NYT journalist: 'It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to'

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PC Gamer

Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise

AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over

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A 14-year-old's suicide was prompted by an AI chatbot, lawsuit alleges. Here's how parents can keep kids safe.

Kids are drawn to AI companions for an array of reasons, from non-judgmental listening to emotional support, but there are risks. Here's how to spot red flags.

Fortune

‘We’re the ultimate creators, not AI’: Will.i.am on why we’re worrying too much about machine-made tunes

Generative artificial intelligence is poison for human creativity, according to conventional media wisdom. “Plagiarism machines” is how Breaking Bad author Vince Gilligan has described the large language models (LLMs) used to train the likes of ChatGPT and Claude.

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #98

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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3 times AI has given us a sentience scare as Snapchat’s chat bot goes rogue

Artificial intelligence, mankind’s latest Icarus moment, is the hot new thing taking the world by storm. But it could be about to take the world by force, too.

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Chatbots Aren’t Becoming Sentient — Our Biggest Fears Are in Our Heads

Chatbots like ChatGPT raise important new questions about how artificial intelligence will shape our lives, and about how our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies.

Inverse

AI isn't close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we're prone to anthropomorphize it

The Conversation

Misplaced fears of an ‘evil’ ChatGPT obscure the real harm being done

Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft – let’s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage

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Elon Musk says A.I. is ‘quite dangerous technology,’ but Bill Gates says ‘there’s no threat’

Elon Musk thinks artificial intelligence is “potentially more dangerous than nukes.” Bill Gates isn’t too worried.

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The fired Google engineer who thought its AI could be sentient says Microsoft's chatbot feels like 'watching the train wreck happen in real time'

Recent outings by Microsoft and Google have done little to change a former Google employee's views on A.I.'s dangers.

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Microsoft's new AI chatbot has been saying some 'crazy and unhinged things'

After Microsoft's powerful AI chatbot verbally attacked people, and even compared one person to Hitler, the company has decided to rein in the technology until it works out the kinks.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Microsoft's cheeky chatbot portends a strange new world

Of all the strange things on the internet, search engines once seemed fairly benign.

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John Oliver on new AI programs: ‘The potential and the peril here are huge’

The Last Week Tonight host examines the risks and opportunities associated with AI, following the popularity of programs such as ChatGPT

Fortune

Microsoft chatbot Sydney rattled users months before Bing

An Indian user complained to Microsoft in November about disturbing replies from its A.I. chatbot Sydney—a precursor to the new Bing.

Salon

Bing's chatbot isn't your girlfriend

Bing chatbot conspiracy theories offer a dark window into the dangers of toxic masculinity

Fortune

Why Bing's creepy alter-ego is a problem for Microsoft—and us all

It's clear the A.I. arms race is pushing big tech companies to release products before they are fully ready. What's less clear is what exactly to do about it.

Fortune

'Based AI': Elon Musk praises Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing for comparing an AP reporter to Adolf Hitler

The edgy CEO of Twitter, himself a critic of the media, lauded Microsoft's AI search engine for likening a journalist to despots Hitler and Pol Pot.

Wales Online

Bing AI chatbot tells user to leave wife and asks for 'nuclear launch codes'

The latest version of Microsoft's search tool Bing has a built-in AI, which appears to have some terrifying plans

Fortune

Unnerving interactions with ChatGPT and the new Bing have OpenAI and Microsoft racing to reassure the public

Microsoft said this week it might limit conversation lengths with the new ChatGPT-powered Bing after some unsettling exchanges.

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