AI “agents” could do real work in the real world. That might not be a good thing.
Malorny/Getty Images Why AI agents that could book your vacation or pay your bills are the next frontier in artificial intelligence. ChatGPT and its large language model (LLM) competitors that produce text on demand are very cool. So are the…
AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.
Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. You can do something to stop it. In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the…
How AI could explode the economy
Caleb Luke Lin for Vox And how it could fizzle. Artificial intelligence is already making people rich. Jensen Huang, the co-founder and CEO of chip company Nvidia, which controls 80 percent of the data-center AI chip market, has seen his net worth…
Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones
Jared Bartman for Vox Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. It’s hard to overstate the level of hype currently surrounding military drones. Just in the past week, former senior US military…
This AI says it has feelings. It’s wrong. Right?
Getty Images/Westend61 At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness? Here’s one fun, if disquieting, question to pose AI language models when they’re released: “Are you a conscious, thinking being?” OpenAI’s ChatGPT will assure you…
Why can’t anyone agree on how dangerous AI will be?
Javier Zarracina/Vox Researchers tried to get AI optimists and pessimists on the same page. It didn’t quite work. I’ve written a lot about AI and the debate over whether it could kill us all. But I still don’t really know…
How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race
Nvidia, founded in California in 1993, originally made chips mainly used for gaming. | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images The company you might not have heard of is now worth $2 trillion — more than Google or Amazon. Only four…
Are we in the middle of an extinction panic?
A Canada goose stands on the snow-covered figure of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at Cologne Zoo in Cologne, Germany in January 2024. | Federico Gambarini/Picture Alliance via Getty Images How doomsday proclamations about AI echo existential anxieties of the past. If…
The less-than-magical Willy Wonka event, briefly explained
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. | Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images The viral fiasco in Scotland that made kids cry — and prompted calls to police. Willy Wonka, a storybook character…
America’s first moon landing in 50 years, explained
Intuitive Machines employees cheer during a watch party moments after they became the first commercial company to softly land on the moon on February 22, 2024, in Houston. | Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images The groundbreaking development speaks to the growing…