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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Why Won’t OpenAI Say What the Q* Algorithm Is?
Supposed AI breakthroughs are frequently veiled in secrecy, hindering scientific consensus.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty AI’s Spicy-Mayo Problem
A chatbot that can’t say anything controversial isn’t worth much. Bring on the uncensored models.
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JOEL SAGET / AFP / Getty The Money Always Wins
Sam Altman has retaken the throne at OpenAI.
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Jim Wilson / The New York Times / … OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Made a Tragic Miscalculation
What was Ilya Sutskever thinking when he tried to overthrow Sam Altman?
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.
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Haiyun Jiang / The New York Times / … The Sudden Fall of Sam Altman
What it means that the world’s most powerful AI executive is out of a job
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: pabradyphoto / Getty. The White House Is Preparing for an AI-Dominated Future
President Biden’s big swing on AI is as impressive and confusing as the technology itself.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bing Image Creator. … AI Has a Hotness Problem
In the world of generated imagery, you’re either drop-dead gorgeous or a wrinkled, bug-eyed freak.
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Jordan Speer for The Atlantic Computers Are Learning to Smell
AI could revolutionize our understanding of one of the most mysterious human senses.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The New AI Panic
Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … AI’s Present Matters More Than Its Imagined Future
Let’s not spend too much time daydreaming.
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Illustration by Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Source: … Artists Are Losing the War Against AI
OpenAI has introduced a tool for artists to keep their images from training future AI programs. It may not make a difference.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic My Books Were Used to Train Meta’s Generative AI. Good.
It can have my next one too.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … A New Coca-Cola Flavor at the End of the World
Y3000, the latest Coke flavor, was purportedly made with the assistance of AI. What does it taste like?
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic So Much for ‘Learn to Code’
In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major.
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Video by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. What I Found in a Database Meta Uses to Train Generative AI
Nobel-winning authors, Dungeons and Dragons, Christian literature, and erotica all serve as datapoints for the machine.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech
Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.
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Illustration by Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Source: … Why Go With an Evil-Looking Orb?
The controversial crypto project Worldcoin asks people to look into a shiny orb to have their irises scanned. It’s a bit on the nose.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Robots Are Already Killing People
The AI boom only underscores a problem that has existed for years.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty High-School English Needed a Makeover Before ChatGPT
I used to make my students write essay after essay. There was always a better way.
