1464 Results From "automation"

Workers at an eating disorder crisis hotline unionized. Four days later, those workers were told they'd be replaced with a chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Eating Disorder Hotline Fires Entire Staff and Replaces Them with a Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gannett promised that no AI content would be published to its vast network without direct human oversight. This isn't how things played out.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Promised to Be Super Responsible With AI Before Completely Bungling It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that bots are better at completing CAPTCHAs than humans in both accuracy and speed.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Now Better Than Humans at Solving Those Annoying “Prove You’re a Human” Tests

By Victor Tangermann

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Surveillance technology, including facial recognition software, reportedly has an outsized presence in public housing projects.
Future Society

Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After hastily announcing that Twitter would be rebranding as "X," the rollout has hit some major snags with "x.com" redirection issues.
Future Society

X.com Is Telling People That It’s “Parked by GoDaddy”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google Insider Says Bosses Have No Idea What They’re Doing With AI
Google

Google Insider Says Bosses Have No Idea What They’re Doing With AI

By Victor Tangermann

A 31-year-old CEO of an e-commerce platform fired 90 percent of the company's support staff after arguing an AI chatbot outperformed them.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Fires 90 Percent of Support Staff, Saying AI Outperforms Them

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has been using MSN to distribute misleading and oftentimes incomprehensible garbage to hundreds of millions of readers per month.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shamelessly Pumping Internet Full of Garbage AI-Generated “News” Articles

By Victor Tangermann

To combat the worst effects of climate change, we need all hands on deck — and robotic ones definitely do apply. 
Robotics

A Robot Is Helping Reforest The Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

An incredibly life-like humanoid robot had a bit of a dodgy answer when asked if it would rebel against its human creators.
Robotics

Realistic Robot Awkwardly Dodges Question When Asked If It Will Rebel Against Humans

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated image of a young disabled veteran went viral on Facebook. A lot of folks — particularly older men — think she's the real deal.
Meta

Facebook Page Uses AI-Generated Image of Disabled Veteran to Farm Engagement

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT, OpenAI's groundbreaking language modeling AI, just passed a Wharton Business School exam. Queue yet another existential crisis!
OpenAI

Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The popular tech site has employed the use of AI for its financial explainer articles under the byline of "CNET Money Staff."
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI

By Frank Landymore

Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”
OpenAI

Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”

By Victor Tangermann

Meet Magnecko, a four-legged and absolutely terrifying new robot that can Spiderman up walls and across ceilings using its magnetic feet.
Robotics

Scary New Robot Can Climb Walls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than six months after its public release, OpenAI has shut down its "AI classifier," its in-house AI-detection tool. Why? It didn't work.
OpenAI

OpenAI Shutters AI Detection Tool Due to “Low Rate of Accuracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have found that tiny changes in GPS signals could allow us to predict large earthquakes roughly two hours early.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Predict Earthquakes by Analyzing Tiny Changes in GPS Data

By Victor Tangermann

An internal investigation at the unicorn social media startup IRL has revealed that "95 percent" of the app's users were "automated or bots."
Future Society

Social Media App Shuts Down After Admitting 95% of Users Were Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An actor seems to have given a bizarre explanation for why he liked a bunch of bigoted posts: that AI had something to do with it. 
Artificial Intelligence

Actor Blames AI for Liking Red-Pilled Social Media Posts

By Noor Al-Sibai

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AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.
Artificial Intelligence

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo