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Roundtables: Trump's Impact on the Next Generation of Innovators
Watch a subscriber-only conversation on how researchers and entrepreneurs are faring under the new administration. Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes dozens of young researchers on our Innovators Under 35 list. We checked back in with recent honorees to see how they're faring amid sweeping changes to science and technology policy within the US. Learn about the complex realities of what life has been like for those aiming to build their labs and companies in today's political climate. How Trump's policies are affecting early-career scientists--in their own words It's surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot Rhiannon Williams Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. How these two brothers became go-to experts on America's "mystery drone" invasion Matthew Phelan It's surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT.
Hollywood's Most Terrifying Nightmare Has Arrived
The Industry A.I. Is Ready to Crush Hollywood as We've Known It Generative video tools are ready to flood the market with robot actors and content--leaving studios and actors scrambling to catch up. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Nitish_Pahwa newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
OpenAI's New Sora App Lets You Deepfake Yourself for Entertainment
OpenAI's latest app encourages users to generate a personal digital avatar and scroll AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends. On Tuesday, OpenAI released an AI video app called Sora . The platform is powered by OpenAI's latest video generation model, Sora 2, and revolves around a TikTok-like For You page of user-generated clips. This is the first product release from OpenAI that adds AI-generated sounds to videos. For now, it's available only on iOS and requires an invite code to join.
Exclusive: Mira Murati's Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product
Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine-tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI. Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product--a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models. "We believe [Tinker] will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to all people," said Mira Murati, cofounder and CEO of Thinking Machines, in an interview with WIRED ahead of the announcement. Big companies and academic labs already fine-tune open source AI models to create new variants that are optimized for specific tasks, like solving math problems, drafting legal agreements, or answering medical questions. Typically, this work involves acquiring and managing clusters of GPUs and using various software tools to ensure that large-scale training runs are stable and efficient.
Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye
A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending. Before you close this browser tab, just know that you risk missing out on some very important information. If you want to understand the subtle hold that artificial intelligence has over you, then please, keep reading. That was, perhaps, a bit manipulative. But it is just the kind of trick that some AI companions, which are designed to act as a friend or a partner, use to discourage users from breaking off a conversation.
AI Is Learning to Do the Jobs of Doctors, Lawyers, and Consultants
RadVid-19, a program which identifies lung injuries through artificial intelligence, is used at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. RadVid-19, a program which identifies lung injuries through artificial intelligence, is used at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The tasks resemble those that lawyers, doctors, financial analysts, and management consultants solve for a living. One asks for a diagnosis of a six-year-old patient based on nine pieces of multimedia evidence; another asks for legal advice on a musician's estate; a third calls for a valuation of part of a healthcare technology company. Mercor, which claims to supply "expert data" to every top AI company, says that it spent more than $500,000 to develop 200 tasks that test whether AIs can perform knowledge work with high economic value across law, medicine, finance, and management consulting.