Matteo Wong
Science, Tech and Health Staff Writer at The Atlantic
Staff writer for Science, Tech, and Health @theatlantic
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Matteo Wong
If Google has its way, there will be no search bars, no search terms, no searching (at least not by humans). The very tool that has defined the company—and perhaps the entire internet—for nearly three decades could soon be overtaken by a chatbot. Last month, at its annual software conference, Google launched “AI Mode,” the most drastic overhaul to its search engine in the company’s history.
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zetland.dk | Matteo Wong
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theatlantic.com | Matteo Wong
OpenAI is a strange company for strange times. Valued at $300 billion—roughly the same as seven Fords or one and a half PepsiCos—the AI start-up has an era-defining product in ChatGPT and is racing to be the first to build superintelligent machines. The company is also, to the apparent frustration of its CEO Sam Altman, beholden to its nonprofit status.
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flipboard.com | Matteo Wong
We've summed up the entire Kia logo debacle (so you can finally stop reading about it)All you need to know about the KN (sorry, Kia) logo. Car brands occasionally have one-off branding scandals – people hated Audi’s new logo for China …
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3 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Lila Shroff |Matteo Wong
Sorry to tell you this, but Google’s new AI shopping tool appears eager to give J. D. Vance breasts. Allow us to explain. This week, at its annual software conference, Google released an AI tool called Try It On, which acts as a virtual dressing room: Upload images of yourself while shopping for clothes online, and Google will show you what you might look like in a selected garment.
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It's deeply concerning that one of the best AI researchers I've worked with, @kaicathyc, was denied a U.S. green card today. A Canadian who's lived and contributed here for 12 years now has to leave. We’re risking America’s AI leadership when we turn away talent like this.
In reporting, I stumbled across a telling document. The president’s late uncle, John G. Trump, was an MIT physicist funded by NIH and NSF grants (millions of dollars today) that supported dozens of students. Now his nephew is dismantling this foundation of scientific progress: https://t.co/KbfCMoQiCX
Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes @matteo_wong: https://t.co/ToJIqC39EC
RT @TheAtlantic: .@vauhinivara’s new memoir, "Searches," critiques the internet in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry.…
