The human side of AI: each week, Hannah and Noo are your guides to this week's AI news.
The human side of AI: each week, Hannah and Noo are your guides to this week's AI news.
Would you use AI for recipes? How do you feel about Frankenstein-ed recipes? What happens to food bloggers in the age of AI?
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Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
Pork Roast with Crispy Crackling - Recipe Tin Eats (Noo's favourite recipe)
Anthropic is interviewing its users, what did it find out? How do people feel about working with AI? How do they see AI's role in their future?
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How does AI help us realise what is important in education? Is there value in the process of writing and thinking, even if AI can do it better? What do we gain by thinking with other humans?
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I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. - NYTimes
This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent. - NYTimes
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How do you prove your human in a world of AI? Are retina scans the answer? What does Open AI's Sam Altman have to do with all of this?
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How is AI transforming dating? Would you want to be matched by an AI? Can it solve the problems of modern dating?
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You Don’t Need to Swipe Right. A.I. Is Transforming Dating Apps - New York Times
Is there skill involved in making AI music? Does the whole thing become a marketing exercise? What will happen to human musicians?
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Xania Monet becomes first AI artist to chart on US Billboard rankings - NME
Music sector workers to lose near a quarter of all work over next four years due to AI, says study - NME
How Was I Supposed to Know? - Xania Monet
What happens when AI meets Christianity? Do we want AI to have Christian values? Does it give the Church more or less power?
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An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI - The Guardian
Pope Leo XIV 'Not Going to Authorize' an AI Version of Himself - CNET
Is Sora 2 an endless reinforcement slop machine? What does it mean for OpenAI’s business model? Will we all become beetles mating with bottles?
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How do the different AI models perform on real world tasks? Is your job at risk? How worried should we be?
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Measuring the performance of our models on real world tasks - OpenAI
OpenAI study explained - YouTube
Why has OpenAI launched a jobs board? Is it a sign that human jobs have a future? Or is it a clever PR play?
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Expanding economic opportunity with AI - OpenAI blog post
What do we want from podcast hosts? Can AI do it better? Would you like your Artificial Stupidity hosts to be replaced with AI?
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5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan - The Hollywood Reporter
Why are doctor deepfakes on the rise? Is this just the next iteration of "snake-oil"? What will happen to our trust in the medical profession?
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4 ways to future-proof against deepfakes in 2024 and beyond - World Economic Forum
The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds - New York Times
AI-generated content is raising the value of trust - The Economist
A Dubai Chocolate Theory of the Internet - Search Engine
Why has Miss England introduced an AI round? What does it mean for the modelling industry? Is this the future?
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Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive?
American Boy - Estelle
A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet - Search Engine
Are we outsourcing all our brain function to AI? Does it matter? How can you stay sharp and use LLMs?
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Your Brain On ChatGPT - MIT Study
Ezra Klein and Maryanne Wolf on 'Deep Reading' - NY Times
The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. - NY Times
How are companies adopting AI? Is 'not' hiring as bad as firing? Why are people sabotaging their company's attempt to introduce AI?
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Has Genie 3 opened up a new world of AI simulation? Could simulated worlds be better than reality? Has our social media addiction already started to lead us down this path?
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Study on the health effects of VR
Does AI spell the death of search and what can be done to save the web?
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AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? - The Economist
Democratizing Web Traffic with Cloudflare's C.E.O. - The New York Times
Can we trust machines to shape our careers? What values should be built into AI tools that decide our professional futures? Could AI fix the bias in hiring better than humans can?
Join Hannah and Noo as they go behind the scenes of AI's recruitment revolution and interview Arya Tandon - hire #1 of AI recruitment start up Jack & Jill.
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Netflix has used AI for the first time in one of its shows, but what does that mean for the film industry? Will audiences embrace AI-generated VFX, or is this the start of a slippery slope?
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Netflix's new TV show 'The Eternaut' uses AI
Netflix just normalised AI for VFX – and I'm devastated - Tom May
air head · Made by shy kids with Sora
1000 True Fans - Kevin Kelly
Will your next job interview be with a bot? Did you write your CV with ChatGPT? Is the logical next step to get through the whole interview process without any human interaction?
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Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I. - NYTimes article
Young People Face a Hiring Crisis. AI Is Making It Worse. - Derek Thompson Substack