AI

It is not hard - at all - to trick today's chatbots into discussing taboo topics, regurgitating bigoted content and spreading misinformation. That's why AI pioneer Anthropic has imbued its generative AI, Claude, with a mix of 10 secret principles of fairness, which it unveiled in March.  Read more

Google's classic search engine is getting an AI makeover.

For over two decades, the search site has been defined by a plain search bar and a list of results.

Will computers supplant audiobook readers? Unlikely, says Nicholas Jones

"You won't be needing your studios any more in a year or two," said the agent to me. "All my clients are going to be reading in their home studios." That was three years ago, and lockdown had just started. But I needn't have worried. Three years down the line, the Strathmore Studios are as busy as ever.  Read more

On the first day of writing class, I often begin by asking my students why they want to become more skillful on the page. I pose this question knowing that many of them have enrolled in the course only because our college requires them to do so, and that they are likely motivated by little more than the desire to graduate. Some students will admit as much.  Read more

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence over the past few decades, from pipe dream to reality, has been staggering. A.I. programs have long been chess and Jeopardy! Champions, but they have also conquered poker, crossword puzzles, Go, and even protein folding.  Read more