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Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition’s Devin, which it claims to be the “first AI software engineer,” is astonishingly bad at its job. In a recent analysis, first…
Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, often until…
Pivotal Moment After its controversial pivot to AI earlier this year, the Washington Post’s CEO is now turning off editorial candidates by asking them how they would use the technology to…
Simple Definition Merriam-Webster defines “plagiarism” as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own” — but apparently that definition has perplexed the CEO of…
To hear tech execs tell it, AI chatbots are poised to become our arbiters of facts and purveyors of the news. But this whirlwind week in American politics shows they’ve…
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s fearless leader, has some thoughts about AI. And boy, are they something. In a recent interview with YouTuber Kane Sutter (@Kallaway), Zuck waxed poetic about the future…
Perplexity, an AI startup that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from the likes of Jeff Bezos, is struggling with the fundamentals of the technology. Its AI-powered search engine,…
OpenAI used a voice that sounded a lot like the actress Scarlett Johansson’s as its new ChatGPT voice assistant, as many pointed out after its debut. Now things just got a…
Flummoxed Yet another OpenAI executive has been caught lacking on camera when asked if the company’s new Sora video generator was trained using YouTube videos. During a recent talk at Bloomberg’s…