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AI May Not Steal Your Job, but It Could Stop You Getting Hired
In her new book The Algorithm, journalist Hilke Schellmann investigates software that automates résumé screening and promotion recommendations, raising concerns about discrimination.
CES 2024 Preview: Get Ready for a ‘Tsunami’ of AI
CES, which kicks off January 9 in Las Vegas, will feature the usual assortment of new consumer tech products. This year, even more of that stuff will be empowered by machine intelligence.
WIRED’s 2023 Year-in-Review Quiz
From OpenAI to Ozempic, test your knowledge about some of the biggest science and technology stories from this year.
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023
From Sam Altman and Elon Musk to ransomware gangs and state-backed hackers, these are the individuals and groups that spent this year disrupting the world we know it.
Generative AI is repeating all of Web 2.0’s mistakes
From content moderation and disinformation to non-English languages, GenAI is facing problems that social platforms failed to solve.
Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0
Generative AI companies’ struggles with content moderation, sketchy labor practices, and disinformation show them fighting the same problems that tripped up social platforms before them.
How to Use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Create Your Own Custom GPT
I created an experimental chatbot with 50 of my WIRED articles. Try it out for yourself.
The Hollywood Strikes Stopped AI From Taking Your Job. But for How Long?
The year was dominated by talk of what artificial intelligence could do—and what it could do better than most humans.
AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now
Artificial intelligence can now tell tales featuring your kids’ favorite characters. It’s copyright chaos—and a major headache for parents and guardians.
Leveraging language to understand machines
Master’s students Irene Terpstra ’23 and Rujul Gandhi ’22 use language to design new integrated circuits and make it understandable to robots.
How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun
It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true.
Your AI-generated guide to the nativity
I asked DALL-E3 (via chatgpt) for "a simple Christmas nativity scene with each element clearly labeled in large capital letters for a child who is learning to read.""Please generate a simple Christmas nativity scene with each element clearly labeled in large capital letters for a child
Journalists Had 'No Idea' About OpenAI's Deal to Use Their Stories
WIRED spoke with employees at Business Insider, one of the outlets owned by Axel Springer, which just struck a significant deal with OpenAI.
America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch
NIST, the US agency Joe Biden tasked with curbing the risks of AI, lacks the necessary resources. Lawmakers are concerned it could be forced to rely on private companies developing the technology.
MIT in the media: 2023 in review
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates
These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections.
A flexible solution to help artists improve animation
This new method draws on 200-year-old geometric foundations to give artists control over the appearance of animated characters.
In the Age of AI, 'Her' Is a Fairy Tale
Spike Jonze’s Her turns 10 today. The futuristic film is now an optimistic time capsule.
Image recognition accuracy: An unseen challenge confounding today’s AI
“Minimum viewing time” benchmark gauges image recognition complexity for AI systems by measuring the time needed for accurate human identification.
