Are you freaking out about ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the other AI tools impersonating human language, taste and creativity? Maybe you'd be interested in my book, which describes the collision course we're on between human instinct and machine learning.
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1 in 4 American high schoolers considered taking their own life. What if A.I. could help identify suicide risk? reports
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Never met before, and suddenly we’re BFFs talking TikTok for an hour. (At least, it felt that way.) Hope you enjoy!
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I always thought of my backdrop of books as a quiet tribute to my father, the historian Andrew Ward, my cousin, the noir expert Nathan Ward, and others. I had no idea anyone would be so inventive as to build a storefront out of it! Thank you!
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NEWLY POSTED #backdropbooks profile: @byjacobward.
@NBCNews correspondent. Former @PopSci editor-in-chief. Author.
Check out his profile & #books at backdropbooks.com/backdrop-books!
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I'd never spoken with Chris before, but we discovered we have enormous common interests (attention, AI, staying up way too late on TT), and it all happened right in front of us in this conversation. Good stuff, please listen!
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What's all the fuss about TikTok for? Any why might the platform be banned in more places in the future? Author & NBC News tech correspondent @byjacobward joins this week's #WITHpod w/@chrislhayes to unpack.
Hear the full ep wherever you get your pods:
link.chtbl.com/H1_0J49V?sid=tw
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What would a TikTok ban really mean?
breaks down the possibilities, how this could affect users across the country, and more.
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Asked whether they'd sacrifice one life to save five, more than 1800 people in an experiment "found the sacrifice more or less acceptable depending on how they were advised by a moral advisor" in the form of ChatGPT. You guys. YOU GUYS.
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I try not to take criticism or praise of my home setup to heart, but when gives me props, I think back on how I fought depression during the pandemic by going hard at making a nice shot. Thanks for the encouragement!
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On Air. In the Loop. Love the blue. One of the best lit setups on cable. 10/10 @byjacobward
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Congratulations! We’re lucky to have you!
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Some personal news: Today is my first day as an associate producer for @NBCNews business, tech & innovation unit, and I'm so excited to be a part of this team.
Have any tips? Let's chat! --> sara.ruberg@nbcuni.com
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Researchers are developing artificial intelligence technology they say generate the very images in our brains.
shares more on the extraordinary research and the concerns about what mind reading technology could mean for the future:
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. goes deep on the latest AI tools.
One service, , takes on customer service bots to fight bills (sometimes by lying).
As prez says, these tools aren't intelligent but a "warped mirror of what's on the internet for the last 20 years."
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AI seems to be everywhere now, but what can and can’t artificial intelligence do? @byjacobward explains.
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. on the TikTok CEO in today’s hearing: "The treatment that American social media companies have gotten from Congress has been so distinct from what we saw today in the case of Mr. Chew."
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Ahead for us on :
> reports on Utah's first-of-its-kind law restricting children's access to social media.
> has more details on the AI technology meant to generate the images in our brain.
And more when we see you tonight.
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Teams of scientists are developing AI technology that could have the ability to interpret words, images, and feelings from inside the brain.
speaks with Duke Professor Nita Farahany who is warning about the uncertain future of AI.
Tune in tonight for more.
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AI seems to be everywhere now, but what can and can’t artificial intelligence do? explains.
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Here are some incredible things people are already doing with GPT-4
It’s been less than 3.5 hours
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“GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.”
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The Biden administration announced that customers at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which were both forced into closure, would be made whole by the FDIC.
has our report, plus joins with context on how we got here.
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. on the $SVB collapse: "You're seeing this parade of people for whom this bank had really been a lifeline, it was a really specific weird creature. It is built for the startup economy."
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I thought it was quite thoughtful, and that’s coming from someone who got mocked in it! I’m so glad they leaned on you for counsel.
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I had a lot of fun being an advisor for John Oliver's crew on this segment! I haven’t watched it yet though, I was cringing too much at some of the simplifications in the near-final script. 
Is it watchable for domain experts?
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Is it watchable for domain experts?
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#GPT3 and #ChatGPT can produce appeals that persuade humans on political issues (even highly polarized ones), with effect sizes similar to appeals written by humans. New research from our lab, with @baixx062, @jgvoelkel, and @JEichstaedt. 
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One of a million fantastic questions being raised today.
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People keep talking about how LLMs for search will include recent websites in their training data (@CaseyNewton also in Platformer). But this isn’t right, is it? You couldn’t retrain these models anywhere near often enough to keep them ‘live’… twitter.com/jjvincent/stat…
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Ad for seemingly all-knowing AI product punctures the whole premise.
"Ironically, if you actually search ‘what is the first image of an exoplanet’ on the original Google, the old-school Google, it gives you the correct answer."
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Yoel Roth has the A-student’s habit of taking notes to remain awake and stay calm.
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Artificial intelligence can spit out college-level essays in seconds, pushing some schools to ban the use of Chat GPT.
Others are embracing it, and bringing the technology into their lessons plans.
reports tonight at 6:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm CT.
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The fact that Google is openly saying it's going to work a new AI product, called Bard, into search — the core of its business — is a very big deal.
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After a run of “misuse cases,” synthetic-voice company ends free Beta period.
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Crazy weekend - thank you to everyone for trying out our Beta platform. While we see our tech being overwhelmingly applied to positive use, we also see an increasing number of voice cloning misuse cases. We want to reach out to Twitter community for thoughts and feedback!
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It’s hard not to lose it, frankly, in a scene like this.
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"There's an astounded quality to how officials have been describing what this even represented... The emotions here are just horror, and the horror unfolds as you begin to pick away the details" - @byjacobward w/ @NicolleDWallace
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Amazing artwork is being made using artificial intelligence and image rendering software, but it's raising questions about creativity, copyrights and commerce.
shares his own story of unintentionally buying AI-generated art.
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I bought this piece of #AI #art without realizing what it was. Tonight on come with me as I speak to the CEO of #Midjourney, whose software actually “made” it, and track down the artist, @anteddai, to talk about the nature of creativity.
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#2022NightlyRewind: In Portland, Oregon, a group of parents and one PE teacher came together to create an alternative way of getting kids to school while clearing road congestion.
shared more details about the “bike bus” in October:
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If you observe a storm-related emergency such as flooding or a downed tree or tree limb, please contact OAK311 by calling 311 or 510-615-5566. Non-emergency issues can be reported online.
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BREAKING: Guilty on three counts. Read important context here.
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Tell everyone, every time, over and over again: it's just a language-impersonation system. It doesn't KNOW anything.
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Terrifying finding from a morning spent playing with ChatGPT. When asking it a simple question from my own research, it delivered an eloquent, succinct response, backed up by cited work of prominent researchers in the field. Only these citations are FAKE! (See screenshot)
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With enormous thanks to for speaking with us. He walked headlong into the controversy by being one of the few to openly admit he used it to make something. Consider how few will be that honest about it in future.
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ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence technology that can write term papers, legal documents and more in a matter of seconds, but it’s raising alarms about the value of human creativity.
@byjacobward explains why some are predicting the program may wipe out whole industries.
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When you get to introduce the work of a longtime friend and colleague like on a national broadcast, the feelings are big. Go Chiara.
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