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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images for AFI; Shutterstock Across his wide-ranging career, the filmmaker Paul Schrader is probably best known for his “man in a room” style stories. They follow lonely, and usually stoic, men in the throes of some sort of existential crisis, alienated from the world around them. Often, they are shown as literally alone in a room. In “First Reformed” (2017), it was an ascetic

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Beyond the well-known impacts generative AI has on the environment and the human psyche, it also comes with a tremendous social burden. Deepfakes — digitally altered content that’s indistinguishable from real life — have proliferated off the back of the AI boom, turning the web into a noxious slurry of half-truths and misinformation. It’s also enabled a major rise in digital sex crimes th

Critterz Remember when OpenAI was supposed to upend Hollywood by making a fully AI-generated animated movie? Such a feat would’ve been curtains for studios like Pixar, which spend hundreds of millions of dollars on each film. It would be a proof-of-concept that a magical AI model could churn out a family friendly box office hit for a fraction of that amount, in a fraction of the time. Of course, like many AI industry promises, that ambition hasn’t panned o

Getty Images / Luis Alvarez Even after being caught — and viciously criticized — for using AI to write his book about AI, one writer says he’s not giving up on the tech. While many AI writing scandals center on the artistic sin of letting a machine dictate your creative process, the offense committed by Steven Rosenbaum, the author of “The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality,” was a journalistic one. A recent investigation by The New York Times found

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images What will Google CEO Sundar Pichai say next month when he gives the commencement speech at Stanford University? Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t be a terribly interesting question. But if you’ve been paying attention to the headlines the past few weeks, it’s been an absolute massacre out there on the frontlines of college graduations for any speaker who dare

The AI character branded “Tilly Norwood” by London-based developers Particle6 is having a bad time on its press tour for Misaligned, its forthcoming and assuredly terrible movie. On Friday, the model powering Norwood swung by Piers Morgan’s YouTube talk show Piers Morgan Uncensored for a simulated “interview” that might be charitably compared to that feeling that hits the brain just before a migraine strikes. The model powering Norwood had noticeable lag t

It seems like the only thing that Silicon Valley has been able to talk about in recent years is how glorious the future of humanity is going to be, thanks to artificial intelligence. Personalized education, a doctor-slash-therapist that’s available 24/7, cures for all diseases, and the elimination of poverty—virtually anything we could possibly desire will be just a few prompts away. But there’s been a distinct vibe shift over the past two weeks. Suddenly,

Earlier this month, AI-generated music platform Suno released a new model that it made with cooperation from major record labels in an effort to smooth out claims that the company was illegally using copyrighted material to train its model. Unfortunately for Suno, the labels it worked with on this model did not include Sony and Universal, and those companies claim songs from their artists are still in the training data. The companies are now suing the star

President Donald Trump simply has no patience for negativity around AI. He says it’s going to be the “Greatest Economic Development Engine in History — Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet.” But it’s scaring people lately, so apparently he’s decided to just rename it. Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate de

Back in February, two Tomahawk missiles hit Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the Iran war. The blasts killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children. Earlier reporting already pointed to outdated targeting data and raised questions about whether artificial intelligence had a role in the mix-up. And now, a Bloomberg investigation published Friday fills in more of the story, citing

The Summer of Rogue AI is almost at an end, but humanity’s understanding of how to control the technology—and prevent it from wreaking havoc in the future—is still very much in its infancy. That’s the key message from the United Nations’ International Independent Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence’s first thematic brief, published this morning as world leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly. The July Hugging Face hack showed that c

Donald Trump has decided that artificial intelligence has a marketing problem. After all, nobody likes anything “artificial.” So this weekend, the branding expert who brought you such perfectly named products like Trump Steaks, Trump Taj Mahal, and Trump Tower set out to solve the problem. “Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence,” he wrote on Twitter before