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Tired of search engine optimization run amok? After allowing users to flag some articles as clickbait, the Artifact news app now says it wants users to mark clickbait headlines they come across so it can rewrite the title text using AI. Hell, if enough users also report the same headline, Artifact will then display that AI-generated headline to all users at once.How Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Spiral Out of Control on the Internet | TechModoOn Friday, the AI-driven article recommendation app said it would let…

Image: Michael Vi (Shutterstock)As big tech companies like Amazon forbid employees from entering code into ChatGPT, other big tech companies are more optimistic. Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang claims that anyone can code now with artificial intelligence, and that a new era of technological literacy is upon us.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?Huang gave a keynote speech at Computex in Taiwan on Monday, revealing Nvidia’s new supercomputer called DGX GH200 that the company hopes to use to build generative AI, as reported…

Photo: Amir Sajjad (Shutterstock)Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes small, minimally outfitted theaters. But black box is also an important term in the world of artificial intelligence.AI black boxes refer to AI systems with internal workings that are invisible to the user. You can feed them input and get output, but you cannot examine the…

Photo: Trismegist san (Shutterstock)When an AI-generated image of an explosion occurring outside the Pentagon proliferated on social media earlier this week, it provided a brief preview of a digital information disaster AI researchers have warned against for years. The image was clearly fabricated, but that didn’t stop several prominent accounts like Russian state-controlled RT and Bloomberg news impersonator @BloombergFeed from running with it. Local police reportedly received frantic communications from people believing…

The modern matchstick was invented in the early 1800s. The initial iterations suffered from assorted defects like violent flares, rancid chemicals, and a tendency to cause factory workers’ jaws to rot. Once they ironed out the kinks, the little torches spread like wildfire. To distinguish themselves in a new competitive market, many companies began to sell their matchsticks in funky, colorful boxes. Among the attention-grabbing designs that now decorate phillumenists’ collections were boxes with puzzles. Some brands would…

World leaders are addressing their concerns about AI at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima on Friday, suggesting that “guardrails” should be put in place to monitor the evolving technology. The summit, which will tackle other issues including the Ukraine War, China relations, and clean energy, is bringing the AI discussion to the table for the first time at the request of President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future TechLeaders from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.S.,…

One of the less-than-gracious responses to the ongoing WGA strike is that writers could simply be replaced by scripts created by artificial intelligence (AI). There are many problems with this idea, one of which is the obvious: could a program like ChatGPT actually generate a decent sci-fi fantasy script?We put the idea to the test, but it’s worth first noting that this scenario has real basis for concern. Predictive, generative writing programs, often referred to as AI, are a consideration for the Writers Guild of…

The labor market is expected to drastically change over the next five years, according to a new report that projects overall employment growth will decrease by roughly 14 million jobs. World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs 2023 report finds that ever-changing technological advancements, especially AI, will shake up the workforce in the year ahead.Perhaps unsurprisingly, the media industry is forecast to be the most highly affected with a churn of 32% of its labor force as technology and artificial intelligence advances.…

Writers often spend weeks, months, or even years devising the perfect storyline and character arc for a novel that has, perhaps, been decades in the making. They put their own personality into it, their own experiences, and often that reflection jumps off the page or screen at the reader. But what if they didn’t? What if there was a way to drain the life out of a book with lifeless recycled robot prose? That seems to be the future that Sudowrite imagines. Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future TechSudowrite is an AI-focused…

Photo: S.Narongrit (Shutterstock)Multiple new programs and services are now advertising that AI can be used to write screenplays and automate the filmmaking process. For instance, the AI startup Deepmind recently announced the launch of a tool called Dramatron, what it calls a “co-writing” tool. According to its website, Dramatron is supposed to help screenwriters by using “hierarchical story generation for consistency across the generated text. Starting from a log line, Dramatron interactively generates character…