Mark Zuckerberg embraced a digital world known as the metaverse when he said in November 2021 that he was changing his company’s name from Facebook to Meta.A month later, Bill […]
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Back to news homeReid Hoffman Is Praising the Virtues of AI
Reid Hoffman, billionaire entrepreneur and venture capital investor, is worried about artificial intelligence — but not for the doomsday reasons making headlines. Instead, he worries the doomsday headlines are too […]
Prompts to Try Asking ChatGPT
Welcome back to On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it.A few months ago, my colleagues Cade Metz […]
Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.
Credit…Desiree Rios/The New York TimesEight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech […]
Microsoft Says New AI Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
Prompt Plato’s Gorgias is a critique of rhetoric and sophistic oratory, where he makes the point that not only is it not a proper form of art, but the use […]
E.U. Approves Microsoft’s $69 Billion Deal for Activision
Microsoft’s faltering $69 billion bid to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard received a glimmer of hope on Monday when European Union regulators approved what would be the largest […]
White House Unveils Initiatives to Reduce Risks of AI
The White House on Thursday will host its first gathering of chief executives of companies building artificial intelligence since a boom in A.I.-powered chatbots has prompted growing calls to regulate […]
Stock Markets React After U.K. Blocks Microsoft’s Activision Bid
British antitrust regulators on Wednesday dealt a major setback to Microsoft’s plans to acquire the video game giant Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, blocking the proposed deal and handing a […]
In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution
In March, two Google employees, whose jobs are to review the company’s artificial intelligence products, tried to stop Google from launching an A.I. chatbot. They believed it generated inaccurate and […]
How the S&P 500 is Dominated By Apple and Microsoft
The fate of the S&P 500 index — used by investors as a barometer for the health of corporate America, and cited by presidents as a measure of their handling […]