After recording the fifth episode of “The AI Artifacts Podcast” on Tuesday, my co-host Sarah Luger and I knew that the fluid situation surrounding Sam Altman’s firing and subsequent pressure to reinstate him as CEO at OpenAI was likely to remain in flux the following day. What we didn’t know was that a deal to … Read moreWhat Satya Nadella gained for Microsoft after Sam Altman’s return to OpenAI
My “AI Artifacts Podcast” co-host and I were wrapping up our news discussion for this week’s episode when we saw breaking news that OpenAI’s board had just fired Sam Altman as CEO, naming Mira Murati (its CTO and a former podcast guest of ours) as the company’s new interim CEO. All of the news arrived … Read moreWhat Sam Altman’s firing at OpenAI means for its (and AI’s) future
When Sarah and I first started “The AI Artifacts Podcast,” we wanted explore areas where AI has the potential to transcend novelty and provide real-world utility in worthwhile places. This week, our third episode of the show features a great example of this in an interview with the founder/CEO and CBO of a startup called … Read moreThis week’s podcast episode: AI to assist ALS patients
If you didn’t get an alert on your podcast platform of choice on Friday, just know that the second episode of “The AI Artifacts Podcast” is now live. You can hear it on AIArtifacts.net, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or most other fine listening destinations. It was a fun episode. If you caught us the week before, … Read moreWhat was in this week’s podcast episode: The Beatles and AI resource needs
If you follow me on Substack or LinkedIn, you may already know that I dropped a new trailer over the weekend for “The AI Artifacts Podcast,” a show that I’m going to co-host with my old friend and former colleague Sarah Luger (PhD). Season 1’s first episode will arrive for Halloween, featuring an intro to … Read moreWhy I’m co-hosting a new AI podcast
The past decade saw a boom in fact-checking organizations across the internet, according to annual census results from the Duke Reporters’ Lab. The momentum seems to have trailed off in the 2020s, however, with the total number of active organizations dedicated to fact-checks staying roughly the same since 2021. The group counted 417 fact-checkers when … Read moreWhat may be behind slumping growth for internet fact-checking
It’s no big secret that generative AI is resource-intensive. In fact, making a query with AI can cost “at least four or five times more computing per search” compared to traditional searches, according to Martin Bouchard, co-founder of Canada-based data center company QScale, who shared the calculation in a February article at Wired. That extra … Read moreHow much water AI is going to drink
Gen Z surveys and new studies on emerging behaviors almost always ignite one of two questions for me within the first paragraphs: (1) Are these behaviors or preferences really different from Millennials and Boomers at similar ages? (2) What’s in here that’s really unique for this generation and not just an insight about teens and … Read moreIs Gen Z really bringing an end to mainstream pop culture?
Artificial intelligence may be able to synthesize and generate works of art, but it still can’t receive copyrights in the U.S. following a decision by District Judge Beryl A. Howell on Friday. Howell found that “human authorship is an essential part of a valid copyright claim,” meaning that computer scientist Stephen Thaler remains unable to … Read moreWhy AI still can’t copyright its art