Artificial Intelligence

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  1. Wall Street’s Patience for a Costly A.I. Arms Race Is Waning

    A sell-off in Meta’s stock after the company disclosed huge investments in the technology may be a sign of investor fears about tech giants’ spending.

     By Andrew Ross SorkinRavi MattuBernhard WarnerSarah KesslerMichael J. de la MercedLauren Hirsch and

    Mark Zuckerberg has bet big on artificial intelligence, but the hefty costs are worrying investors
    CreditLoren Elliott for The New York Times
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  2. ‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

    The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

     By Adam Satariano and

    More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.
    CreditIman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times
  3. Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

    Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

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    Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.
    CreditIan C. Bates for The New York Times
  4. Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted

    Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.

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    CreditDerek Abella
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  5. How a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate Busywork

    A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.

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    CreditCari Vander Yacht
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  1. Google prueba un asistente de inteligencia artificial que ofrece consejos de vida

    Los expertos en seguridad de IA de la empresa advirtieron sobre algunos riesgos en tales herramientas. Las funciones se están evaluando.

     By

    CreditGabriel Alcala
  2. A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check

    The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

     By Cade MetzKaren Weise and

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  3. Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

    Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

     By Cade Metz and

    Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.
    CreditLeft, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times
  4. El asistente de inteligencia artificial de Meta es divertido, pero no es de fiar

    A pesar de la esperanza de Mark Zuckerberg de que el chatbot sea el más inteligente hasta la fecha, este tiene problemas con los datos, los números y las búsquedas en la web.

     By

    CreditDerek Abella
  5. School Employee Arrested After Racist Deepfake Recording of Principal Spreads

    A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.

     By

    Myriam Rogers, superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, speaking about the arrest of Dazhon Darien, the athletic director of Pikesville High.
    CreditKim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun

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  1. Applying to College? Here’s How A.I. Tools Might Hurt, or Help.

    ChatGPT might change the application essay forever.

     By

    CreditKendrick Brinson for The New York Times
  2. How teachers and students feel about A.I.

    As the school year begins, their thinking has evolved.

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    CreditSam Wood
  3. How to Use A.I. for Family Time

    Plan meals, find gifts and create stories using generative A.I.

     

    CreditTess Smith-Roberts
  4. What’s the Future for A.I.?

    Where we’re heading tomorrow, next year and beyond.

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    CreditMathieu Labrecque
  5. How Should I Use A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT?

    Large language models are already good at a wide variety of tasks.

     By

    CreditIllustrations by Mathieu Labrecque

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    From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

    Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?

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  6. The Big Number: $40 Billion

    Meta has already spent billions on developing artificial intelligence, and it plans to spend billions more.

    By Marie Solis

     
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