AI and Radioactive Shoe Salesmen

Do chatbots have feelings? Anthropic, Google, and Meta are hiring computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers to find out. Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) explains why the search for AI consciousness has gone from fringe theory to Silicon Valley mainstream, and why ...  Show more

Do you work with machines, or for machines? Cory Doctorow, who coined the term “enshittification,” has a new book that asks exactly that. In The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late, he challenges the belief tha ...  Show more

A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ais-act-o1/

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Is S.I. using A.I.? 

“AI models are confident liars.” That's the tagline for artificial intelligence application startup, Infactory. The company’s co-founder Brooke Hartley Moy joins CNBC’s Tom Chitty and Arjun Kharpal to discuss how to fix inaccuracies, bias and misinformation from AI.See Privacy Po ...  Show more

Just as manufacturing automation cuts into human jobs, the prospect of creative artificial intelligence raises the specter of robot writers, robot artists and robot musicians who never sleep and always agree with their patron. But paranoia aside, where will creative machine le ...