2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (404+ words) AI’s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your “second brain,” to invent “new physics,” or to become the genius autodidact you always dreamed of being. Or you can drop these pretensions and just use…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (800+ words) At 38, I gave myself one year and £15,000 (nearly $20,000 USD at the time) to completely change my life. I told myself that if it didn’t work, I’d go back to the life I had spent so long trying to leave. At…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (638+ words) Asha Sharma believes Xbox can return to its winning ways by refocusing on its core gaming principles. That has been a top priority for Sharma since taking over as chief executive of Xboxin February, an appointment that surprised some industry…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (974+ words) The impact of ChatGPT on society can be summed up with a single word: more. Since OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool debuted in late 2022, anyone can rapidly churn out reams of text resembling academic papers, legal documents, poems and computer programs....

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (418+ words) The doomsday forecasts have been building for years: AI will hollow out the white-collar workforce, destroy entry-level jobs, and create a permanent underclass of technologically displaced workers. Now, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential firms has published a detailed rebuttal…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (681+ words) It’s become a common pattern over the past few months: A business leader makes an ominous claim about the impact of AI on the labor market, sparking weeks of discourse and sending U.S. workers reeling. Now, a “godfather” of AI…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1067+ words) The doomsday crowd may want to check its history books. The bank’s central argument is simple: 60% of the jobs that exist in the United States today didn’t exist in 1940. Data scientists, social media managers, and cloud developers “barely existed 20 years…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (262+ words) OpenAI responded by instructing the model to avoid all references to “goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.” The company is so serious about its…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (413+ words) If you’ve spent a lot of time in the past year looking at your bank account balance, you’re not the only one. Nearly all Americans are rethinking their finances as money anxiety increases, according to a new study from Wells…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (411+ words) Andrew Yang — millionaire entrepreneur, noted Ivy leaguer, and one-time presidential hopeful — has a grim warning for his fellow salaried professionals: AI is about to wipe “millions” of office jobs over the coming months. In an essay published on his Substack…...