Critic’s Notebook
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 Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.
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CreditMichael M. Santiago/Getty Images Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.
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Credit Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes
Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.
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How A.I. Tools Could Change India’s Elections
Avatars are addressing voters by name, in whichever of India’s many languages they speak. Experts see potential for misuse in a country already rife with disinformation.
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CreditAhmer Khan for The New York Times Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.
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CreditGrant Hindsley for The New York Times Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
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CreditLoren Elliott for The New York Times A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now, there’s no easy way to answer those questions.
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CreditDavide Comai The SHifTA.I. Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
Machine-learning technologies are being used in film restoration for new home video releases. But some viewers strongly dislike the results.
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More in ChatGPT ›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 Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.
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CreditMeta Most Teachers Know They’re Playing With Fire When They Use Tech in the Classroom
But many of them know how not to get burned.
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CreditEleanor Davis ¿Quieres liberarte de tu celular? Este dispositivo podría ser la clave
El Ai Pin cuesta 700 dólares y resulta útil para ciertas tareas, pero no se le dan bien las matemáticas ni las recetas de sándwiches.
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CreditAndri Tambunan for The New York Times Cómo los gigantes tecnológicos toman atajos para obtener datos para la IA
OpenAI, Google y Meta ignoraron las políticas corporativas, alteraron sus propias normas y debatieron la posibilidad de eludir la ley de derechos de autor en la búsqueda de información en línea para entrenar sus sistemas de inteligencia artificial más recientes.
By Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and
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More in On Tech: AI Newsletter ›Applying to College? Here’s How A.I. Tools Might Hurt, or Help.
ChatGPT might change the application essay forever.
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CreditMathieu Labrecque How Should I Use A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT?
Large language models are already good at a wide variety of tasks.
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In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Was Overwhelmed.
Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.
By David E. Sanger
Pronto podrías hablar con una versión de chatbot de tus influentes favoritos de Instagram
Instagram está probando un programa que ofrece a sus principales influentes la posibilidad de interactuar con sus seguidores a través de mensajes directos utilizando un chatbot.
By Sapna Maheshwari and Mike Isaac
A.I.-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.
By Cecilia Kang
Ross DouthatIs the Internet the Enemy of Progress?
Revisiting Michael Crichton’s prophecy of cultural stagnation.
By Ross Douthat
Americans Are More Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda, Senator Warns
Senator Mark Warner, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said the United States was more susceptible to Russian influence operations than it was during the 2020 elections.
By Julian E. Barnes
DealBook NewsletterHow Washington Played A.I. Matchmaker
The White House laid the ground work for Microsoft’s $1.5 billion investment in an Emirati artificial intelligence start-up, a deal meant to box out Beijing.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
A.I.’s Original Sin
A Times investigation found that tech giants altered their own rules to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
By Michael Barbaro, Cade Metz, Stella Tan, Michael Simon Johnson, Mooj Zadie, Rikki Novetsky, Marc Georges, Liz O. Baylen, Diane Wong, Dan Powell, Pat McCusker and Chris Wood
La IA podría acabar con algunos oficios pesados y monótonos en Wall Street
Las herramientas de inteligencia artificial pueden sustituir gran parte del trabajo más rutinario de Wall Street, que normalmente es realizado por los novatos.
By Rob Copeland
Qué son los datos sintéticos y cómo se usarían para entrenar a la IA
Los desarrolladores de modelos se están quedando sin datos para entrenar a sus sistemas y se apoyan ahora en otros generados por la propia tecnología.
By Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
A.I.’s Data Wall, a Surprise Privacy Bill, and What Happened to the TikTok Ban?
I’d rather not tell you what’s in this episode. It’s private.
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Davis Land, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell and Rowan Niemisto
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