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The Beatles’ final song, restored using AI, is up for a Grammy

The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant. But it doesn’t help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

AI tools have shown their value in speeding up software development and discovering pharmaceuticals

Marketing tactics that boast about AI’s ability to render meaningful activities — like, say, painting, or writing a letter with your daughter — worth little more than a single button-click come across as deeply tone-deaf to a population who is already anxious about the future of the technology. According to a 2023 Pew survey, 52 percent of American... See more

For example, we are already seeing cases of liar’s dividend, where high profile individuals are able to explain away unfavorable evidence as AI-generated, shifting the burden of proof in costly and inefficient ways

The ad’s visuals were birthed from nothing by nothing: non-sentient digital code that does not know that it, or the holidays for that matter, exist. This ad had no power to make me wonder, because there was no humanity in it.

Much like crypto, the AI tools peddled by tech companies today are environmental disasters, using up as much energy as an entire country. That’s expected to double by 2026, and it also includes the millions of gallons of water needed to cool the equipment.

The incident once again highlights a common problem with all generative AI tools: whether it’s AI-generated images, music, or writing, these works are inherently derivative because anything they produce is made up of remixed pieces of work in the training data.