Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model What they found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works.

MIT Technology Review

Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works.

#AI #LLM #Research

Good compilation of images. "People Are Using ChatGPT’s New AI Image Generator to Turn Photos into Studio Ghibli Style Images"

PetaPixel

People Are Using ChatGPT's New AI Image Generator to Turn Photos into Studio Ghibli Style Images

It's all thanks to OpenAI.

#AI #AIArt

AI robot pets can be adorable and emotionally responsive. They also raise questions about attachment and mental health

The Conversation

AI robot pets can be adorable and emotionally responsive. They also raise questions about attachment and mental health

Parents would do well to ask questions about their children’s relationships with cute, AI-powered creatures.

#AI #Pets

Trouble in Paradise? Understanding Mastodon Admin's Motivations, Experiences, and Challenges Running Decentralised Social Media Interviews with 16 Mastodon instance administrators https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3687059 #Mastodon #Research

OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enough for designers and advertisers The model can depict legible text and is more practical than the surrealistic generators of the past. But who will use it?

MIT Technology Review

OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enough for designers and advertisers

The model can depict legible text and is more practical than the surrealistic generators of the past. But who will use it?

#AI #GraphicDesign

How Software Engineers Actually Use AI We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us.

WIRED

How Software Engineers Actually Use AI

We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us.

#AI #Programming

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.352.6285.508 #ShadowLibraries #Research

OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional wellbeing

MIT Technology Review

OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being

We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.

#AI #OpenAI #Psychology #Research

"One-third of Americans are concerned about AI causing the end of the human race on Earth". "Most Americans think AI will become more intelligent than people — or already is".

Americans are increasingly skeptical about AI's effects

#AI #Surveys

A defense of AI art It's not just slop, it's not stolen, and it's not bad for the environment

A defense of AI art

It's not just slop, it's not stolen, it's not bad for the environment, and we should want art to be easy to make

#AI #AIArt

US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/ #AI #Copyright

Report: Data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 and are expected to consume approximately 6.7 to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028. The report indicates that total data center electricity usage climbed from 58 TWh in 2014 to 176 TWh in 2023 and estimates an increase between 325 to 580 TWh by 2028.

Energy.gov

DOE Releases New Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand from Data Centers

Domestic Energy Usage from Data Centers Expected to Double or Triple by 2028, DOE Continues to Accelerate Development and Deployment of Solutions t...

#USA #Datacenters #Electricity

A curious tendency among Western philosophers?

A curious tendency among Western philosophers? — Crooked Timber

#Philosophy #Parenthood

Working Paper: Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and the Politics of Anti-technology

Working Paper: Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and the Politics of Anti-technology

The growth of new technology, in particular new communication technology, has raised questions about technology’s role in society.

"We find that anti-tech sentiment is a coherent orientation, distinct from but related to other psychological and political factors. This orientation strongly predicts policy preferences and, in some cases, support for extreme actions. We identified which segments of the population were most likely to score high on our anti-tech orientation, finding that loneliness, conspiracy thinking, need for uniqueness, and need for chaos correlate with the general anti-technology factor". #AI #Survey #Research

Generative AI Tool Marks a Milestone in Biology https://hai.stanford.edu/news/generative-ai-tool-marks-a-milestone-in-biology "Trained on a dataset that includes all known living species – and a few extinct ones – Evo 2 can predict the form and function of proteins in the DNA of all domains of life and run experiments in a fraction of the time it would take a traditional lab." #AI #Biology

Chinese Court Rules That AI Image Has Copyright Protection

PetaPixel

Chinese Court Rules That AI Image Has Copyright Protection

It's the second such ruling from China.

"The plaintiff with the surname Lin generated an image featuring a heart-shaped balloon. Lin later discovered that two companies had used the design in their social media posts without permission and subsequently filed a lawsuit. The Changshu People’s Court ordered the defendants to issue a public apology and pay 10,000 yuan (approximately $1,380) in damages". #AI #Copyright #China

"As of late 2024, nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population age 18-64 uses generative AI. 23 percent of employed respondents had used generative AI for work at least once in the previous week, and 9 percent used it every work day."

NBER

The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating resear...

#AI #GenerativeAI #Survey

ChatGPT Hits 400 Million Weekly Users

Analytics India Magazine

India

#AI #ChatGPT

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats

The Walrus

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

#AI #Philosophy #Ethics

How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00616-z "From a global perspective, AI’s impact on future electricity demand is actually projected to be relatively small. But data centres are concentrated in dense clusters, where they can have profound local impacts." #AI #Datacenters #Energy