Connie Guglielmo

A new paper released Monday says that 80% of the U.S. workforce will see the impact of large language models on their work. While some will only experience a moderate amount of impact on their day to day workload, close to 20% of those working today will likely find abouthalf of their tasks automated to some extent by AI.The paper published by Cornell University was led by several OpenAI researchers working alongside a researcher at nonprofit lab OpenResearch, which is chaired by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and a professor at…

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Image: II.studio (Shutterstock)After getting caught using an algorithm to write dozens of articles, the tech publication CNET has apologized (sorta) but wants everybody to know that it definitely has no intention of calling it quits on AI journalism. Yes, roughly two weeks ago Futurism reported that CNET had been using an in-house artificial intelligence program to pen droves of financial explainers. The articles—some 78 in total—were published over the course of two months under the bylines “CNET Money Staff” or “CNET…

CNET told staff it would halt the publication of articles generated via artificial intelligence, in a Friday call, according to a report from The Verge. Or, at least, the company said it would pause the AI-article practice “for now,” as it waits out a stream of media criticism.“I just want to reassure everybody: this will pass,” Lindsey Turrentine, a CNET executive, told staff regarding the recent coverage of the site’s AI use. “It’s uncomfortable, we will get through it, the news cycle will move on,” she added, in the…

Aside from stringing together human-like, fluid English language sentences, one of ChatGPT’s biggest skillsets seems to be getting things wrong. In the pursuit of generating passable paragraphs, the AI-program fabricates information and bungles facts like nobody’s business. Unfortunately, tech outlet CNET decided to make it its business. The tech media site has been forced to issue multiple, major corrections to a post published on CNET, created via ChatGPT, as first reported by Futurism. In one single AI-written…