Business, Spoken
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Senators Want ChatGPT-Level AI to Require a Government License
A new US government body would force companies to seek a license before working on powerful AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4, under a bipartisan proposal by senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe
European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted
Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Is the True Scale of New York’s Airbnb Apocalypse
A law meant to crack down on short-term rentals in New York City took effect Tuesday. Thousands have dropped off the map, but there are still hosts offering bookings that may break the law.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption
The UK government has admitted that the technology needed to securely scan encrypted messages sent on Signal and WhatsApp doesn’t exist, weakening its controversial Online Safety Bill.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The End of Airbnb in New York
Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google by Using Its ‘Results About You’ Tool
You can now set up alerts for whenever your home address, phone number, and email address appears in Search.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Controversial Right-to-Repair Car Law Makes a Surprising U-Turn
The Biden administration has changed its mind about a Massachusetts state law giving mechanics and car owners access to more diagnostic data.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse
A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s Answer to OpenAI
The European Union is desperate for its own artificial intelligence giant. German startup Aleph Alpha might be its best hope.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
A developer used widely available AI tools to generate anti-Russian tweets and articles. The project is intended to highlight how cheap and easy it has become to create propaganda at scale.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In a World of Fakes, Trump’s Real Mug Shot Matters
The first booking photo of a US president stands out among a sea of photoshops and AI-generated images online.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta Just Released a Coding Version of Llama 2
Code Llama may spur a new wave of experimentation around AI and programming—but it will also help Meta.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How AI Could Transform Email
Artificial intelligence may streamline a form of business communication that’s already super fake.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT
Teachers are caught between cracking down on cheating with generative AI and using it to help empower students. It’s going to be a challenging year.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
25 Years Ago Steve Jobs Launched the First iMac—and the Strategy That Saved Apple
The curvy translucent plastic design of the iMac was the test case for Steve Jobs' “whole-widget” strategy that led to the creation of the iPhone.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X
A botnet apparently connected to ChatGPT shows how easily, and effectively, artificial intelligence can be harnessed for disinformation.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
Thousands of security experts, hackers, and college students competed to trick powerful text-generation systems into revealing their dark sides at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers
In March a viral letter called for a pause on AI development, warning that algorithms could outsmart humanity—but many experts who signed on did not believe the technology poses an existential risk.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
YouTube Music Adds a TikTok-Like Video Feed to Attract Gen Z
Gregor Dodson, a director of product management, shares why Samples is the music streaming app's newest video feature.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News
Controlled exposure to misinformation can help protect people from falling for it in the future, according to new research.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Uber and Lyft Drivers Have Some Advice for Autonomous Vehicles Set to Swarm the Streets
San Francisco ride-hail drivers are about to share the roads with robot competitors. They say that the self-driving cabs need to work on their traffic skills—and watch out for bodily fluids.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Smell Your Way Out of the Uncanny Valley
In simulated environments, smell is often the neglected sense. Scentient’s wearable device aims to bring a whiff of authenticity to virtual reality. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data
The outcry over Zoom's tweak to its data policy shows how the race to build more powerful AI models creates new pressure to source training data—including by juicing it from users.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them?
UK unicorn Synthesia offers clients a menu of digital avatars, from suited execs to Santa Claus. But it has struggled to stop them being used to spread misinformation.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Ghost of Privacy Past Haunts the Senate’s AI Future
The US Congress is trying to tame the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. But senators’ failure to tackle privacy reform is making the task a nightmare.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Microsoft’s AI Red Team Has Already Made the Case for Itself
Since 2018, a dedicated team within Microsoft has attacked machine learning systems to make them safer. But with the public release of new generative AI tools, the field is already evolving. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?
The artificial intelligence gold rush has thrust services like ChatGPT into every aspect of our digital lives. That still won’t solve your email problems. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice
We get it, relationships are hard. But asking ChatGPT how to do emotions is not going to work. Here are some better ideas. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women’s Soccer
As the UK pushes for a law that threatens end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp has given itself a starring role in a doc about a girls’ soccer team fleeing the Taliban. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Disinformation Is Just for You
Generative AI won't just flood the internet with more lies—it may also create convincing disinformation that’s targeted at groups or even individuals. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Is the Era of Zombie Twitter
The bird may be dead, but Twitter—er, X—is still alive for communities, news, and memes. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
Researchers were given unprecedented access to Meta’s data during the 2020 elections. Meta says their results show its platforms don’t cause political polarization. That’s not entirely true. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
Some social media users and lawmakers say chronological feeds are healthier. A new study found that Facebook and Instagram users who were forced to see time-ranked posts turned to TikTok instead. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race
Meta is giving its answer to OpenAI’s GPT-4 away for free. The move could intensify the generative AI boom by making it easier for entrepreneurs to build powerful new AI systems. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
5 Ways ChatGPT Can Improve, Not Replace, Your Writing
Generate your own text—but get help from the AI bot to make it stand out. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
X Isn’t a Super App. It’s Just Twitter
Twitter’s rebrand to X is both a bad joke and an attempt by Elon Musk to realize his decades-long ambition for an all-conquering super app. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
Leading AI developers including Google and OpenAI promised the Biden administration to check for problems such as biased output. The agreement is not legally binding. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys
Helsing AI is building an operating system for warfare and says it’ll only ever sell to democracies. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Threads Is the New Cool Hangout—for Brands
With big names like Wendy’s and Netflix, brand-on-brand chatter is shaping Meta’s new social media app. That could leave little room for people. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with the decentralized protocol underlying Mastodon. Proponents of interoperable social media can’t agree whether to welcome or fear it. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren’t Ready to Make Peace
An auto industry pact claims to end the controversy over car data that has embroiled repair shops, parts manufacturers, and car owners. But many doubts remain. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Could Change How Blind People See the World
Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ukraine's Botanists Risked Their Lives for a Priceless Collection
When the war came to Kherson, a small group of scientists ventured into the ruined city to rescue a unique herbarium. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Armed Guards and Shootings Plague Airbnb’s Party Ban
People are still using short-term rentals to throw unruly parties—some of them deadly. Local communities are trying to fight back. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Congress Wants to Take Back Power Over Crypto
On Wednesday, US senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand will unveil proposed legislation to decide once and for all how digital assets should be regulated. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Find Your Twitter Friends on Threads
Want to reconnect with people and grow your clout on Threads? Here are a few tips to help you get started. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
Although some workers shun chatbot help, platforms are adopting policies or technology to deter use of AI—potentially making crowd work more difficult. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Open-Source Your Blender to Fight Electronic Waste
Berlin-based Open Funk is tackling throwaway culture with a blender that's as easy to fix as to replace. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
5 Uses for ChatGPT that Aren’t Fan Fiction or Cheating at School
Chatbots are great for lots of things, but these ones may be unexpected. Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices