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For all the considerable—and, yes, over-the-top—attention that artificial intelligence has received since ChatGPT first launched in 2022, we still mostly interact with this new form of computing in an old school way: We type, the chatbot answers.Still, AI chatbots have become so immensely popular—used by something like one-third of Americans, per one survey last summer—that there’s already talk of a bot bubble.But chatbots may not be the future—and may not even be the AI form with which most of us interact. The AI…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing fiction, making images inspired by Van Gogh and fighting wildfires. Now it's competing in another endeavor once limited to humans — creating propaganda and disinformation. Artificial intelligence is writing fiction, making images inspired by Van Gogh and fighting wildfires. Now it's competing in another endeavor once limited to humans — creating propaganda and disinformation. When researchers asked the online AI chatbot ChatGPT to compose a blog post, news story or essay…

The future of AI is digital and physical agents that can act in the world guided by human commands.Credit: Author via MidjourneyOne of AI’s most ambitious goals is to build systems that can do everything a human can. GPT-3 can write and Stable Diffusion can paint, but neither can interact with the world directly. AI companies have been trying to create intelligent agents this way for 10 years. This seems to be changing now.One of my latest articles covers Google’s PaLM-SayCan (PSC), a robot powered by PaLM, the best large…