reader comments 191 with 0 posters participating Share this story ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever launched. Users are attracted to the tool’s advanced capabilities—and concerned by its potential to cause disruption in various sectors.… Read More »
Enlarge / “It’s a cookbook?!” (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) “Artificial Intelligence” as we know it today is, at best, a misnomer. AI is in no way intelligent, but it is artificial. It remains one of the hottest topics in industry and is enjoying a renewed interest in academia. This isn’t new—the world has been… Read More »
reader comments 57 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’ve spent the past few weeks burning copious amounts of AWS compute time trying to invent an algorithm to parse Ars’ front-page story headlines to predict which ones will win an A/B test—and we learned… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 78 with 65 posters participating Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was trying to do with Ars headlines, the first thing he… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 79 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’re in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we’ve gotten past denial and anger, and we’re now sliding into bargaining and depression. I’ve been tasked with using Ars… Read More »
Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. reader comments 63 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory when you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude… Read More »
reader comments 79 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story Every day, some little piece of logic constructed by very specific bits of artificial intelligence technology makes decisions that affect how you experience the world. It could be the ads that get served up to you on social media or shopping sites,… Read More »
reader comments 36 with 29 posters participating Share this story In 1964, the Civil Rights Act barred the humans who made hiring decisions from discriminating on the basis of sex or race. Now, software often contributes to those hiring decisions, helping managers screen résumés or interpret video interviews. That worries some tech experts and civil… Read More »