Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence could hollow out the media business—but it also has the power to enhance journalism.

The Chinese company’s low-cost, high-performance A.I. model has shocked Silicon Valley, and a longtime China watcher warns that the West is being leapfrogged in many other industries, too.

Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising.

A leading computer scientist says it’s “educability,” not intelligence, that matters most.

Seven years after inventing the transformer—the “T” in ChatGPT—the researchers behind it are still grappling with its surprising power.

Increasingly, our networks seem to be steering our history in ways we don’t like and can’t control.

More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.

The field of existential risk examines climate change, nuclear warfare, and artificial intelligence—and the totalizing threats posed by things we don’t yet understand.

A recent OpenAI product had an uncanny resemblance to Scarlett Johansson’s character in the movie “Her.” Did the company make a critical misstep?

OpenAI’s snafu over its “Her”-like voice assistant might be funny if it didn’t portend a larger crisis in the integrity of digital information.

Today’s systems struggle to imagine the future—but that may soon change.

How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?

A Brooklyn couple got a call from relatives who were being held ransom. Their voices—like many others these days—had been cloned.

To understand its strengths and limitations, we may need to adopt a new perspective.

The science-fiction writer didn’t live to see ChatGPT, but he foresaw so much of its promise and peril.

Sora, the new text-to-video system from OpenAI, doesn’t make recordings—it renders ideas.

The year resounded with large, loud, and costly films—some of which were so poorly conceived they led me to wonder, why not get A.I. to write them?

There is something paradoxical about pinning a name on an age characterized by extreme uncertainty. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying.

A new book argues that the invention of states and corporations has something to teach us about A.I. But perhaps it’s the other way around.

Daniel Immerwahr, a history professor at Northwestern University, discusses why videos generated by artificial intelligence haven’t had more influence on electoral politics.