That's the narrative. It goes like this: There's a group of powerful people in Silicon Valley who believe in effective altruism, want to live forever, and might be susceptible to fascism. They're not only building AI but believe in a super-intelligence that will have no bias and all the answers. So why not get rid...
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem. We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. (Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar, Columbia Journalism Review)
“Liberal AI Grok Attacks Trump, Turns on Creator Musk in Shocking Betrayal”
What happens when you cram all the world's knowledge, or at least what you can find, into a machine? The machine gets a sense of what's considered normal. I know, loaded term. Let's call it a baseline. This even applies to Elon Musk's supposed super AI, Grok 3. "Should a U.S. president say 'He who...
Twitter’s a Dumpster Fire, So Why Is It So Hard to Leave?
Just like Bitcoin, Bluesky is having a moment right now. But for the opposite reason. After Elon Musk and Trump won the US election, the classic "Why You Should Really, Truly, Absolutely Quit Twitter This Time" posts are making the rounds again. But here I am, still hesitating to hit that "Deactivate Account" button.Not because...
Why would a brand known for quality journalism even consider getting close to generative AI?
I was invited to speak at Otto Group’s internal conference Discover AI 3.0 and tried to give some answers. And I petted a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics and I'm somehow still alive! Before it was my turn, there was plenty to hear about AI in general, thanks to Philipp Klöckner, about AI in logistics,...
