AI's Wide-Ranging Impact

Among the A.I. Doomsayers

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/among-the-ai-doomsayers

Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?

 

The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-obscene-energy-demands-of-ai

How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?

Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/cognition-ai-is-a-peter-thiel-backed-coding-assistant
A new startup called Cognition AI can turn a user’s prompt into a website or video game.
 
Physical Intelligence Is Building a Brain for Robots
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/physical-intelligence-is-building-ai-for-robots-backed-by-openai
Physical Intelligence is building software intended to power robots that can learn a wide range of tasks.

How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move into the Physical World
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/ai-robots-technology.html
Covariant, a robotics start-up, is designing technology that lets robots learn skills much like chatbots do.

 

A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/science/ai-learning-biology.html

Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday?

 

Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/10/big-tech-companies-ai-research/

A growing chorus of academics say the sky-high cost of working with AI models is boxing researchers out of the field, compromising independent study of the technology.

AI Is Taking on New Work. But Change Will Be Hard—and Expensive.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/office-workers-artificial-intelligence-changes-86d8d4ab

Many executives are still figuring out how, and how fast, to go with generative AI