Futurism

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when […]

Researchers at Apple have released an eyebrow-raising paper that throws cold water on the “reasoning” capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language models. In the paper, a team of machine learning experts makes the case that the AI industry is grossly overstating the ability of its top AI models, including OpenAI’s o3, Anthropic’s Claude […]

According to a recently-released working paper by a pair of economists at the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen that was spotted by Fortune, it’s not looking great. After analyzing data about 25,000 workers across 7,000 workspaces, users of AI only saved on average three percent of time. And only a meager three […]

A recent report by the Oxford Economics Group found that unemployment rates among recent college grads in the U.S. are rising, suggesting that “entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates.” Among 22 to 27 year olds, work in STEM industries like computer science is down 8 percent from 2022, signaling a […]

In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a group of authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has argued that its alleged scraping of over seven million books from the pirated library LibGen constituted “fair use” of […]

In a new preprint study awaiting peer review, researchers report that in a three-party version of a Turing test, in which participants chat with a human and an AI at the same time and then evaluate which is which, OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model was deemed to be the human 73 percent of the time when it […]

In a startling admission, a senior defense official is laying bare the Pentagon’s accelerating interest in autonomous killer robots. Speaking to Defense One, which didn’t print the official’s name so that they could speak freely, that official said that the Pentagon is looking to move away from funding research on the topic and investing in […]

During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel’s show this week, Nadella offered a reality check. “Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me,” Nadella told Patel. Instead, the CEO argued that we should be looking at whether AI is generating real-world value instead of mindlessly running after fantastical ideas […]