Artificial Intelligence

The financial journalist discusses his new book about the Wall Street crash of 1929, and the mounting concerns about an A.I. bubble.

Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox.

A.I. tools are getting better at producing convincing images, text, and videos. Does that mean they can make art?

As the stock prices of Big Tech companies continue to rise and eye-popping I.P.O.s reëmerge, echoes of the dot-com era are getting louder.

The technology is complicated, but our choices are simple: we can remain passive, or assert control.

Fast and loose in Memphis, as in D.C.

Now that machines can think for us, we have to choose whether to be the passengers or pilots of our lives.

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.