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How the “Robin Hood of the Internet” Is Using AI To Save People Money, Sue Robocallers And Create Controversy

How the “Robin Hood of the Internet” Is Using AI To Save People Money, Sue Robocallers And Create Controversy

APRIL 21, 2023

What Happened When a Writer Tested Generative AI Pretending To Be Him

What Happened When a Writer Tested Generative AI Pretending To Be Him

APRIL 12, 2023

Wikipedia May Soon Be Written By AI ... and No One Is Sure If It's A Good Idea

Wikipedia May Soon Be Written By AI ... and No One Is Sure If It's A Good Idea

APRIL 7, 2023

This Powdered Beer Is Fake and Real At The Same Time (And It's Not the First)

This Powdered Beer Is Fake and Real At The Same Time (And It's Not the First)

MARCH 30, 2023

Introducing Total Crap, The First Magazine Written Entirely By AI

Introducing Total Crap, The First Magazine Written Entirely By AI

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Can Dating A Chatbot Become A Healthy Relationship?

Can Dating A Chatbot Become A Healthy Relationship?

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Welcome to the Era of Co-Writing … With Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to the Era of Co-Writing … With Artificial Intelligence

JANUARY 12, 2023

We Are Impressed By AI's Fluent BS Because Everything Is Fluent BS

We Are Impressed By AI's Fluent BS Because Everything Is Fluent BS

DECEMBER 13, 2022

GriefTech Can Let You “Speak” To Your Dead Relatives. Would You Use It?

GriefTech Can Let You “Speak” To Your Dead Relatives. Would You Use It?

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Deepfake Company Fakes the News That They Own the Rights to Bruce Willis' Digital Twin Likeness

Deepfake Company Fakes the News That They Own the Rights to Bruce Willis' Digital Twin Likeness

OCTOBER 3, 2022

How To Teach Robots Common Sense

How To Teach Robots Common Sense

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Outpainting Allows AI To Complete the Picture of History's Great Paintings ... and Much More

Outpainting Allows AI To Complete the Picture of History's Great Paintings ... and Much More

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

French Government Uses Aerial AI To Detect Undeclared Swimming Pools and Tax Homeowners

French Government Uses Aerial AI To Detect Undeclared Swimming Pools and Tax Homeowners

AUGUST 29, 2022

Virtual AI-Powered Rapper FN Meka Gets Signed To a Record Deal, Then Immediately Dropped

Virtual AI-Powered Rapper FN Meka Gets Signed To a Record Deal, Then Immediately Dropped

AUGUST 24, 2022

China Detects Alien Signals, Google Creates Sentient A.I. ... Then Both Say These Things Never Happened

China Detects Alien Signals, Google Creates Sentient A.I. ... Then Both Say These Things Never Happened

JUNE 13, 2022

The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms

The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms

MAY 3, 2022

The Futuristic Way India’s Favorite Actor Is Promoting Small Businesses

The Futuristic Way India’s Favorite Actor Is Promoting Small Businesses

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Finishing Beethoven's Lost 10th Symphony and Jurassic Park

Finishing Beethoven's Lost 10th Symphony and Jurassic Park

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Amazon Pretends to Care About Workers While Putting AI In Charge Of Judging Them

Amazon Pretends to Care About Workers While Putting AI In Charge Of Judging Them

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Hearing Val Kilmer Again

Hearing Val Kilmer Again

AUGUST 26, 2021

Two Documentaries To Shift The Way You See The World

Two Documentaries To Shift The Way You See The World

APRIL 6, 2021

“Deep Nostalgia” AI Can Animate a Video From Your Old Family Photos

“Deep Nostalgia” AI Can Animate a Video From Your Old Family Photos

MARCH 4, 2021

Machines Are Inventing New Math Humans Haven’t Seen Before

Machines Are Inventing New Math Humans Haven’t Seen Before

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Why the Turing Test Is an Outdated Way To Measure Artificial Intelligence

Why the Turing Test Is an Outdated Way To Measure Artificial Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2021