PCWorld explores how human writing can exhibit AI-like characteristics, using Claude Sonnet 4.6 to analyze writing patterns for potential AI tells. The analysis identified parenthetical asides as the top AI-like trait, followed by em dash overuse and long sentences exceeding 35 words. Despite detecting these patterns, Claude rated the human writing as mostly authentic with only a 3/10 AI similarity score, suggesting stylistic quirks shouldn't be mistaken for artificial intelligence. What could be better than an em dash? They pepper my writing, adding dramatic pauses and emphasizing my biggest points.

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai People should not blindly trust everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC. In an exclusive interview, chief executive Sundar Pichai said that AI models are prone to errors and urged people to use them alongside other tools. Mr Pichai said it highlighted the importance of having a rich information ecosystem, rather than solely relying on AI technology. This is why people also use Google search, and we have other products that are more grounded in providing accurate information. While AI tools were helpful if you want to creatively write something, Mr Pichai said people have to learn to use these tools for what they're good at, and not blindly trust everything they say.

With the development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to create art, stakeholders cannot come to an agreement on the value of these works. In this study we uncovered the mixed opinions surrounding art made by AI. We developed two versions of a dance performance augmented by technology either with or without GenAI. For each version we informed audiences of the performance's development either before or after a survey on their perceptions of the performance. There were thirty-nine participants (13 males, 26 female) divided between the four performances. Results demonstrated that individuals were more inclined to attribute artistic merit to works made by GenAI when they were unaware of its use. We present this case study as a call to address the importance of utilizing the social context and the users' interpretations of GenAI in shaping a technical explanation, leading to a greater discussion that can bridge gaps in understanding.

Then Kasparov lurched out of his chair to walk toward the audience. At its finest moment, he later said, the machine "played like a god." For anyone interested in artificial intelligence, the grand master's defeat rang like a bell. Newsweek called the match "The Brain's Last Stand"; another headline dubbed Kasparov "the defender of humanity." If AI could beat the world's sharpest chess mind, it seemed that computers would soon trounce humans at everything--with IBM leading the way.

25 years later, the inverted fortunes of IBM’s Deep Blue and neural nets … It stunned the world of computer science: self-learning machines were …

That isn't what happened, of course. Indeed, when we look back now, 25 years later, we can see that Deep Blue's victory wasn't so much a triumph of AI but a kind of death knell. It was a high-water mark for old-school computer intelligence, the laborious handcrafting of endless lines of code, which would soon be eclipsed by a rival form of AI: the neural net--in particular, the technique known as "deep learning." For all the weight it threw around, Deep Blue was the lumbering dinosaur about to be killed by an asteroid; neural nets were the little mammals that would survive and transform the planet. Yet even today, deep into a world chock-full of everyday AI, computer scientists are still arguing whether machines will ever truly "think."

Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Applying data science to predict unrest. AI that can anticipate the next variant of COVID-19's structure. That's a few of the headlines in AI this week, which ran the gamut from the dour (how AI might prevent the next attack on the U.S. Capitol) to the uplifting (making air travel greener). It's caveated optimism, but nonetheless a breath of fresh air in a community that's becoming increasingly cynical about the technology's potential to do good.

Beware the audiobook narrator unable to convey bitterness or sarcasm. They may just be an Artificial Intelligence storyteller. Publishers are increasingly looking to deploy AI-enabled auto-narration of audiobooks and dispensing with the need for expensive, celebrity narrators. The rapid expansion of the audiobook market in recent years has resulted in technology start-up companies offering automated narration services which they promise will cut costs and sound authentic. DeepZen for example, a British company, offers authors and publishers the opportunity to have their books read by a voice "licensed and cloned" from a human narrator -- with a 50,000-word book costing about £600.

Over 20 years of experience creating AI that delivers business impact. One of the reasons I wrote a book titled AI is a Waste of Money was that I kept hearing the same AI horror story over and over. The story usually goes like this: A business adopts AI, hoping it will improve one or more of its business functions. Instead, the business finds itself in the grips of what I've come to call "the AI death spiral." While using AI increases their revenues, it completely destroys profitability.

In the bleak corporate building protagonist Winston is charged with "editing inaccurate accounts" of people and events in old newspapers. Early on, however, Winston confides in the reader that he knows the inaccuracies are not inaccurate at all; rather, they were correct at the time and have recently become unfavorable in the eyes of the political oligarchy known as The Party. Winston laments his role in affecting the past and, in turn, the shared memory of the populace. One day he muses to his lover Julia "Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."