I had ChatGPT build me a free PDF editor because I didn't trust it to change my files - it worked!

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it touch your files, but asking it to write software that handles them safely - ...
Science Daily

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
Live Science

Google AI breakthrough means chatbots use six times less memory during conversations without compromising performance

Google engineers have developed a method to compress artificial intelligence (AI) data so that it requires up to six times less working memory to function. With the new system, called TurboQuant, AI ...
techtimes

How Streaming Platforms Use Algorithms and Recommendation Engine Systems to Personalize Content

Explore how streaming algorithms, personalization, and the content pipeline work together to power recommendation engine systems and shape what viewers see on streaming platforms. Pixabay, SunnyMuneko ...
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
The Conversation

More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them ...
Health Affairs

When The Front Door Is An Algorithm: Guiding Consumer Use Of AI In Health Care

The goal should be purposeful integration: using records to improve context for education, navigation, and appropriate escalation—without presenting the tool as a substitute for professional judgment.
The Washington Post

Schools are teaching AI — and making a massive mistake

Jenny Anderson, a journalist, is author of the Substack “How to Be Brave.” Rebecca Winthrop is director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and author of the newsletter ...
Harvard Business Review

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...