Artificial hope

WITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOWWITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD—BUT NOT A LOT OF CONCRETE SUCCESSES—HERE ARE SIX LESSONS YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE

I spent one of the first weeks of my summer doing something I haven’t done in years: writing computer code. As a professor, when I want to generate data, I usually have the luxury of telling my studen

What is it? It’s the title of a blog post by Sam Altman (pictured below) in which he describes how AI can become “superintelligent” while remaining safely under human control (www.snipca.com/55178). W

‘‘ I would like to make my own witness statement,” said Christopher Pelkey as he stood before Judge Todd Lang in Arizona’s Maricopa County Superior Court, dressed slightly incongruously in a green hoo

AI CHATBOTS WITH THE ABILITY TO ANSWER YOUR MOST PERSONAL QUESTIONS ARE TRANSFORMING THE MENTAL HEALTH SPACE. BUT ARE AUTOMATED THERAPISTS GOOD ENOUGH TO REPLACE THE HUMAN VERSIONS? LOTTIE O’CONOR FINDS OUT

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video