Your Privacy. Sometimes.
Oct. 9, 2024: Generative AI tools from Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft have an off-ish switch. The New York Times’s Brian X. Chen reports where to find the dimmer switch when everyday tools like Microsoft Word and Facebook are hardwired with AI chatbots.
Can You Turn Off Big Tech’s A.I. Tools? Sometimes, and Here’s How.
A Text To Video Tool Leaps Forward
Oct. 1, 2024: Pika Labs announced Pika 1.5, a text-to-video Generative AI tool that rivals OpenAI’s Sora and Runway’s Gen-3. Tom’s Guide’s Amanda Caswell reports on Pika’s “Pikaffects” that provide advanced physics and camera work.
Pika 1.5 is now live — AI video generator just got major upgrades
Who Wins the Nobel: AI or the Scientists Who Use It?
Oct. 13, 2024: Several Nobel Prizes were awarded to scientists who used AI to advance human understanding this year. The New York Times’s “The Morning” writers Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller question how scientific discoveries and the awards that herald them will change when the tools (AI, microscopes, Hadron Colliders) are as much of the finding as the human.
The Morning: What the A.I. nobels teach us about humanity
Minority Report. Now.
Oct. 8, 2024: Zain Kahn, who writes Superhuman AI reports how two Harvard students tied a custom-built Large Language Model to a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses, allowing the wearer to identify anyone just by looking at them. Remember when the stranger in Ray-Bans approached you and asked, “How do you like that new Honda CR-V you bought last week”? Surveillance Much?
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