As a general rule, any essay that includes the one-sentence paragraph “I am here to bring the good news” is written by someone who wants to take your money, your vote, or your soul. As far as I know, Marc Andreessen, the browser pioneer and cofounder of powerhouse VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, isn’t running for … Read more
Journalist Taylor Lorenz isn’t the first to declare legacy media a dead industry walking. But few voice it with the conviction that she does—and an even more vigorous claim that they know its successor. The future of media, she says, lies in social media influencers and the “creator economy.” Let’s see how the peerless scrivener … Read more
The best virtual reality experience I’ve had this year was not with the $500 Quest 3 or the $3,500 Apple VisionPro, and it didn’t even require a headset. Sure, it cost $2.3 billion. But it came with a live soundtrack from an iconic rock band. I am talking, of course, about last weekend’s U2 concert … Read more
When I bring up these concerns to Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, post-keynote, he accuses me of having “a dystopian point of view.” Adding AI bots to the various feeds will spur human connection, he counters. “I think these AIs are entertaining and can help people learn new skills that help them better … Read more
I meet with Walter Isaacson in a small convention room within the workplaces of e book writer Simon & Schuster. The partitions are festooned with framed covers, together with after all Isaacson’s mega-bestseller Steve Jobs. I’m positive some other place within the workplace are covers representing his different topics—Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Jennifer Doudna—which … Read more
That sounded to me like he was anthropomorphizing these synthetic programs, one thing scientists continuously inform laypeople and journalists to not do. “Scientists do exit of their approach not to try this, as a result of anthropomorphizing most issues is foolish,” Hinton concedes. “However they’re going to have discovered these issues from us, they’re going … Read more
Final weekend, I turned to Google Seek for assist determining what number of stamps I wanted to placed on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I used to be sending a duplicate of the most recent concern of WIRED!). It’s the precise form of query that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI characteristic, which … Read more
Because the pixels settle after Apple’s meticulously deliberate rollout of its Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, battle traces have solidified within the warfare for a brand new actuality. A number of tech powers—and a few rising upstarts—are growing headsets and different gizmos to digitally increase or substitute the world our uncooked senses understand. However there’s … Read more
The invasion of chatbots has disrupted the plans of numerous companies, together with some that had been engaged on that very expertise for years (taking a look at you, Google). However not Artifact, the information discovery app created by Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Once I talked to Systrom this week about his startup—a … Read more
I agree with each single a kind of factors, which may probably information us on the precise boundaries we would take into account to mitigate the darkish aspect of AI. Issues like sharing what goes into coaching massive language fashions like these behind ChatGPT, and permitting opt-outs for many who don’t need their content material to … Read more