18 Articles about AI’s future

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An AI to Diagnose Your Sniffles

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Google has built an AI model that uses sound signals to "predict early signs of disease." It can identify subtle changes in your coughs, sniffles, breathing, and more. In places where there is difficulty accessing quality healthcare, this technology can step in as an alternative where users need nothing but their smartphone's microphone. For instance, it has been trained on 100 million cough sounds that help detect tuberculosis. More at Mashable

AI Definitions: Vector databases

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Vector databases – Raw data is converted into lists of numbers (word vectors) so that machine learning models can use them. The vectors are grouped together if they relate to one another. For instance, the word "king" would relate to a man, while "queen" would relate to a woman. A deep learning model (typically a transformer model) will use these vectors to "understand" the meaning of words and their relationships. More than 1,000 numbers can be used to represent a single word. If there are many numbers, then the word vector has a high dimension, making it nuanced. A low dimension for a word vector means the list of numbers is low. While not as nuanced, a low-dimensional vector is easier to work with. Vector data bases is what allows a language model to “recall” previous inputs, draw comparisons, identify relationships, and understand context.

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AI Definitions: Supervised Training

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Supervised training - In this type of AI training, the data is labeled by humans before it is given to the AI. The AI might be given a database of messages labeled either “spam” or “not spam.”  Supervised learning is the most common type of machine learning and is used in voice recognition, language translation, and self-driving cars. Anything that a person can do in a second can also be performed by AI through supervised training. This is why jobs consisting of a series of one-second tasks are at risk of being replaced by AI (such as a security guard). Most of the present economic value of AI comes from this type of training. However, supervised training is both expensive and time-consuming.

22 Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

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Trump orders wide-ranging "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research – Axios

AI Investors Want More Making It and Less Faking It – Wall Street Journal

The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions – Wired

Major music studios strike licensing deals with AI firms - Semafor 

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research – New York Times 

How the U.S. Economy Became Hooked on AI Spending – Wall Street Journal 

Are we in an AI bubble? Eight charts will help you decide. – Washington Post  

The AI boom isn't going anywhere – Axios  

How Trillions in New AI Debt Will Test the Bond Market – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI tests ChatGPT in group chats - Axios 

Balance sheets, cash flows are showing the strain of AI investments and forcing investors to think about companies differently – Wall Street Journal

When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI fights order to turn over millions of ChatGPT conversations – Reuters

The risks of giving ChatGPT more personality - Axios

The AI Cold War That Will Redefine Everything – Wall Street Journal

Google, the sleeping AI giant, awakens - Axios

OpenAI Wants Brands to Allow Their Mascots to Appear in Gen AI Videos – Wall Street Journal

AI stocks waver as ‘Big Short’ investor bets against Palantir, Nvidia - Washington Post

Stability AI largely wins landmark UK intellectual property lawsuit brought by Getty Images – Associated Press

Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees – Wall Street Journal

A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK. - New York Times

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

24 Articles about AI Audio & Video

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An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week — and People Are Listening – The Wrap 

AI artists blow up on country music chart – Axios

Inside Reuters’ agentic AI video experiment  - Digiday

The Current No. 1 Christian Artist Has No Soul – Christianity Today 

People can't tell AI-generated music from real thing anymore, survey shows – CBS News

OpenAI Wants Brands to Allow Their Mascots to Appear in Gen AI Videos – Wall Street Journal  

AI Video Has Changed Marketing Forever — and Standing Out Requires a New Strategy - Entrepreneur 

My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 – Poynter

OpenAI blocks Sora 2 users from using MLK Jr.'s likeness after "disrespectful depictions" – CBS News  

How AI Hears Accents – Accent Explorer

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap – Rest of World 

AI video app tops the download charts —horrifying many families of dead celebrities – Washington Post  

ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio – TechCrunch

Can AI Music Ever Feel Human? It’s Not Just about the Sound – Scientific American 

Inside the work of an AI content creator as online video gets unreal – Washington Post

Is this the end of Adobe as we know it? Unless Adobe listens to users it could be – Amateur Photographer 

Coca-Cola Injects ‘Holidays Are Coming’ Ads With an Upgraded Dose of AI - Wall Street Journal

Walmart adds AI-generated audio summaries to select product pages – Modern Retail

How to Apply Powerful AI Audio Models to Real-World Applications – Toward Data Science

The Best AI Video Generators for 2025 – PC Mag 

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

The number one sign you're watching an AI video – BBC

Deepfake Videos Are More Realistic Than Ever. Here's How to Spot if a Video Is Real or AI - CNET 

Major music studios strike licensing deals with AI firms – Semafor  

2 Webinars this week about AI & Journalism

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Tue, Nov 25 - Telling Memorable Stories That Matter With Will Potter

What: We will discuss how to tell powerful stories that engage audiences in complex subjects, even as journalists increasingly face repression and threats from those who want to hide the truth and keep the public ignorant.

Who: Will Potter is a thought leader and award-winning investigative journalist whose work has focused on social justice and environmental movements, as well as attacks on civil rights post-9/11.

When: 12:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: American University of Armenia

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Wed, Nov 26 - The dangers of AI

What: In this session: Understanding AI’s limitations and biases – how AI reinforces bias, risks for journalism, and implications for democracy; Safe and ethical use – knowing an organisation’s politics/legal stance, protecting sensitive data, and treating AI as a "tireless but error-prone intern."; Practical safety strategies – spotting mistakes, avoiding over-reliance, and using AI for learning without compromising accuracy; Environmental impact.

Who: Nicole Kobie is a technology & digital policy journalist and the author of “The Long History of the Future.”

When: 7:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: members: £10, non-members: £20  

Sponsor: Women in Journalism

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AI Definitions: AI engineers

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AI engineers – Unlike traditional IT roles, people in this position will fix the AI when it breaks, digging through the layers to determine what went awry, why it went wrong and how to repair it. Like a plumber, they’ll snake the pipes to clear out the system and figure out how to avoid the problem next time. This will be particularly important when it comes to models that have been highly customized to an organization.

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And how are you mad?

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All of us are crazy in very particular ways. We’re distinctively neurotic, unbalanced and immature, but don’t know quite the details because no one ever encourages us too hard to find them out. An urgent, primary task of any lover is therefore to get a handle on the specific ways in which they are mad. They have to get up to speed on their individual neuroses. They have to grasp where these have come from, what they make them do – and most importantly, what sort of people either provoke or assuage them. A good partnership is not so much one between two healthy people (there aren’t many of these on the planet), it’s one between two demented people who have had the skill or luck to find a non-threatening conscious accommodation between their relative insanities.

The very idea that we might not be too difficult as people should set off alarm bells in any prospective partner. The question is just where the problems will lie: perhaps we have a latent tendency to get furious when someone disagrees with us, or we can only relax when we are working, or we’re a bit tricky around intimacy after sex, or we’ve never been so good at explaining what’s going on when we’re worried. It’s these sort of issues that – over decades – create catastrophes and that we therefore need to know about way ahead of time, in order to look out for people who are optimally designed to withstand them. A standard question on any early dinner date should be quite simply: ‘And how are you mad?’ 

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24 Articles about Relationships with AI

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How AI is Powering Modern Love – Axios

AI Relationships Are on the Rise. A Divorce Boom Could Be Next – Wired 

Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis, leading him to the delusion that he could save the world. – CTV  

Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use? – New York Times

How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online – Washington Post  

What if you're being manipulated? – Understandably  

The right place for AI companions in mental health care – Stat News 

They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real – New York Times

Character.AI to ban kids from talking to its chatbots – USA Today

AI for therapy? Some therapists are fine with it — and use it themselves. – Washington Post

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder- The Guardian   

With therapy hard to get, people lean on AI for mental health. What are the risks? – NPR

Many teens are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and emotional support – American Psychological Association 

Somebody to love: should AI relationships stay taboo or will they become the intelligent choice? - The Guardian   

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce – Futurism

Next Time You Consult an A.I. Chatbot, Remember One Thing – New York Times

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us – New Yorker

How chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers. – Osmarks

‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy - The Guardian  

AI Is Making Online Dating Even Worse – The Cut

People are starting to talk like ChatGPT - The Washington Post  

The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame – NBC News

People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners – Futurism

Teenage boys using ‘personalised’ AI for therapy and romance, survey finds – The Guardian

AI Definitions: Test-time training (TTT)

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Test-time training (TTT) – Instead of being given truthful data to get an LLM model started in the right direction, TTTs learn by performing a task with the data. An alternative to transformers (which have high energy demands), TTTs only process more data faster, they can do so without consuming nearly as much computing power. Instead of growing as it processes data, like a transformer, it encodes the data into representations called weights. No matter how much data it processes, a TTT model won’t grow and become unwieldy.

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26 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI

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Judge Horrified as Lawyers Submit Evidence in Court That Was Faked With AI - Futurism

Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis, leading him to the delusion that he could save the world. – CTV

How would-be authors were fooled by AI in suspected global publishing scam - The Guardian

Report finds some AI-enabled toys shared inappropriate content or collected data – NPR

AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life. - The Washington Post

An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse? - New York Times 

Is AI dulling our minds? Experts weigh in on whether tech poses threat to critical thinking, pointing to cautionary tales in use of other cognitive labor tools – Harvard

AI is reinventing crime and cops aren't ready – Axios  

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine - Amy Chivavibul 

Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying – Axios  

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’ - New York Times 

It’s Easier to Cheat When You Can Blame AI – Wall Street Journal

A.I. is making death threats more realistic, enabling online harassers to generate images showing their victims in imagined violent situations. – New York Times 

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun – The Guardian

Woman sent husband AI photos of intruder as a prank. He called 911. – Washington Post  

As tech companies build A.I. data centers worldwide, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages. – New York Times

The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest - Wall Street Journal 

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder – The Guardian 

ChatGPT Is a Fictional Character What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a character without an author. – The Atlantic  

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World - New York Times

How AI-powered hackers are stealing billions – The Economist

ChatGPT’s new parental controls failed my test in minutes - The Washington Post  

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce – Futurism  

AI can design toxic proteins. They’re escaping through biosecurity cracks. - The Washington Post

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us  - New Yorker

A stunning scientific accomplishment: Computers can now design new viruses that can then be created in the lab - The Washington Post

AI Definitions: AI translator

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AI translator (trust director) – People who understand AI well enough to explain its mechanics to others in the business, particularly to leaders and managers, so that they can make effective decisions. These workers will not only explain what the AI output means (especially when it is technical) but also how trustworthy the information and conclusions are. This role may fall under that of a compliance officer, helping organizations understand contracts and reports written by AI.

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