How Google's Antitrust Trial Could Change the Internet Search Market

VOA Learning English • voa
Oct. 18, 2023 ~5 min

Human brain too big to map so they’re starting with mice

Harvard-led project seeks to create the first comprehensive diagram of every neural connection.

Anne Manning • harvard
Sept. 26, 2023 ~8 min


Google Launches Watermark Tool to Identify AI-created Images

VOA Learning English • voa
Aug. 30, 2023 ~5 min

AI is an existential threat – just not the way you think

From open letters to congressional testimony, some AI leaders have stoked fears that the technology is a direct threat to humanity. The reality is less dramatic but perhaps more insidious.

Nir Eisikovits, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston • conversation
July 5, 2023 ~8 min

Microsoft and Google rivalry could supercharge development of AI

A competition is heating up between the two tech giants over AI.

Yali Du, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, King's College London • conversation
June 20, 2023 ~7 min

EU files antitrust charges against Google – here's how the ad tech at the heart of the case works

Antitrust suits against Google for its advertising practices center on the technology for buying and selling online ads. A computer scientist explains how these ad networks work.

Eric Zeng, Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University • conversation
June 15, 2023 ~10 min

How can Congress regulate AI? Erect guardrails, ensure accountability and address monopolistic power

Figuring out how to regulate AI is a difficult challenge, and that’s even before tackling the problem of the small number of big companies that control the technology.

Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University • conversation
May 30, 2023 ~10 min

ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding – here's how you can be on alert

Generative AIs may make up information they serve you, meaning they may potentially spread science misinformation. Here’s how to check the accuracy of what you read in an AI-enhanced media landscape.

Barbara K. Hofer, Professor of Psychology Emerita, Middlebury • conversation
May 24, 2023 ~10 min


Google Adds New AI Tools for Developers, Businesses

VOA Learning English • voa
March 15, 2023 ~5 min

AI information retrieval: A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search the web for you

Searching the web with ChatGPT is like talking to an expert – if you’re OK getting a mix of fact and fiction. But even if it were error-free, searching this way comes with hidden costs.

Chirag Shah, Professor of Information Science, University of Washington • conversation
March 15, 2023 ~8 min

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