It reminds me of what the painters did when photography came onto the scene. They stopped painting life-like portraits and landscapes and started painting in the styles of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Les Nabis, Pointillism -- in other words, doing works cameras couldn't do.
generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents, “You don’t need to write a single word.”
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do, and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient.
But look on the bright side: this is real vertical integration, people! Just imagine a future in which the same company can sell you a) a robot to teach you at school; b) a robot to compensate for the fact that you never learned to make friends at school; and c) a robot to gratify you because you’re lonely, alienated and your job just got automated out of existence!
It was coined in January by Tristan Harris at the Center for Humane Technology. He said it’s the “next evolution” of the extractive-tech model where companies use advanced technologies to commodify the human capacity to form attached bonds with other people and with pets.
A hotel being sued for mass food poisonings was described as “spotless” and a resort where guests complained of sexual harassment by staff was praised for “friendly” service by an AI intended to summarise millions of Tripadvisor reviews.
The tech industry is about to flood the market with AI glasses with cameras for multimodal AI. But the public is already turning against the idea. Who will win?
Google was built on a Grand Bargain with content creators: traffic for content. Now it wants content without giving traffic. It’s time for a post-Google internet.
According to Vatican statements, the pope is scheduled to present Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, an encyclical focused on “the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.”
Emotion AI holds out the promise that leaders can bypass the need to inspire, motivate and educate employees so that their actions are aligned with company goals, and instead try to achieve this alignment through hyper-surveillance.
This vital resource 1) Finds nearby bars, 2) Optimizes the walking order, 3) Draws the route on the map, 4) Calculates total walking distance and time, and 5) Lists every stop in order.
The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely and totally flunked the assignment.
New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that the power of AI chatbots is fuelling AI addiction, and that chatbot design could be partly to blame.
Fake empathy, humor, chattiness, and other human-like qualities can delude chatbot users into believing AI has thoughts and feelings. It doesn’t, and there's an intriguing way to fix the problem.