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The Spawn of ChatGPT Will Try to Sell You Things
Browder of DoNotPay is not the only person who sees ChatGPT and the technology behind it as a way to…
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These Algorithms Are Hunting for an EV Battery Mother Lode
“These things are hard to tip over,” geologist Wilson Bonner assures me as the four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle he’s piloting tilts…
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Your Google Searches Are Quietly Evolving. Here’s What’s Next
Changes to the way Google handles search rankings are intended to push up content from real people, not content farms…
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Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Wasington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29…
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Meta Rethinks the Philosophy of the Facebook Feed
When I tell Facebook I want to see more or less of something, does that mean I’m telling it, for…
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Opendoor’s iBuyer Model Is a Canary in the Economic Coal Mine
And right now, Opendoor’s behavior, driven by the data it sees, augurs bad tidings ahead. “Right now, they’re trying to…
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Biden’s AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big Tech
Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced that the US needed a bill of rights…
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This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon…
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YouTube’s ‘Dislike’ Button Doesn’t Do What You Think
YouTube says its systems are working as they’re meant to. “Mozilla’s report doesn’t take into account how our systems actually…
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The FTC Is Closing In on Runaway AI
The US regulator is eager to end unfair use of artificial intelligence and commercial surveillance, but experts remain skeptical. Source…
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