BuzzFeed has taken its next step into AI-written content and started publishing AI-generated travel guides, as reported by Futurism. The publisher’s first AI-generated articles were ad-lib quizzes that were largely innocuous, but the travel guides appear to be a more brazen play to attract search traffic about…
As I mentioned a few times in this blog, I’ve been working with and teaching about artificial intelligence since the start of my career. This drove much of my interest in cloud computing because AI was not economically viable or accessible until…
There’s a quote about how in polite society, you should never talk about three things: politics, religion, and money. In this article, I break polite conventions to determine how an AI would respond to all three of those topics. As AI tools…
Academic plagiarism-detecting software vendor Turnitin demoed an AI-writing detection tool on Tuesday, with a claim of 98 percent accuracy at spotting machine-generated cheating. Initial tests carried out by the Washington Post, however, found its performance lacking. Turnitin was good at detecting AI-generated text when the…
There was once a stigma attached to online dating: Less than a decade ago, many couples who had met online would make up stories for how they met rather than admit that they had done so via an app. Not so anymore. Online…
The star of Levi’s new campaign looks like any other model . Her tousled hair hangs over her shouldersas she gazes into the camera with that far-off high-fashion stare. But look closer, and something starts to seem a little off. The shadow…
This article was originally published on the author’s blog and re-published to TOPBOTS with permission from the author. There’s a quote about how in polite society, you should never talk about three things: politics, religion, and money. In this article, I break polite conventions to…
The company blog post drips with the enthusiasm of a ’90s US infomercial. WellSaid Labs describes what clients can expect from its “eight new digital voice actors!” Tobin is “energetic and insightful.” Paige is “poised and expressive.” Ava is “polished, self-assured, and…
The world needs stronger ethical rules for artificial intelligence: this is the challenge of our time. UNESCO’s Recommendation on the ethics of AI sets the appropriate normative framework. Our Member States all endorsed this Recommendation in November 2021. It is high time…
Updated at 7:44 a.m. Pacific: This headline and copy has been updated to correct for a misinterpretation of the paper’s findings. Bias in AI is pervasive. From dermatological models that discriminate against patients with darker skin to exam-scoring algorithms that disadvantage public school…
