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GIFs from GPT; New Canvas Feature

The real benefit of LLMs for coding is that they have read the documentation for all those software packages.
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Aider: The Terminal Pair Coder I Didn’t Know I Wanted

Aider-chat is a terminal based AI pair programmer that’s easy to install, has some agency–but not too much, and done well–and that can precisely edit your code and also commits changes to Git for you.
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Artificial Intelligence Acronyms (Part 2)

Part Two of our list of AI acronyms. If you’re swimming in alphabet soup, this can help.
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Hands-on with OpenAI’s New “Reasoning” Model, GPT o1

In theory gpt-o1 can explore options for solving problems, refine them, and identify mistakes in its own “thinking.”
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Harvard Researchers Hack AI Product Rankings

A couple of researchers from Harvard have cooked up a way to make AI recommendation systems favor a particular product, potentially allowing a merchant to hijack an AI in their favor.
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Hey ChatGPT, Steal Me an Identity

“He sent me photos and even showed me a screenshot of all the white women he was trying to scam using the identity of a white man.”
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Criminals and Corporations Use AI for Emotional Manipulation

AI may not actually feel things like people, but it can learn from huge piles of data to pinpoint exactly what pushes our emotional buttons.
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AI and the Fake Review Ecosystem

Companies and bad actors are leveraging advanced AI tools to flood platforms with fake reviews, and it’s becoming hard to tell what’s real from what’s generated.
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5 Things We Would Actually Love to See AI Do

I made this list because there are many things AI is doing that seem unnecessary. Today, we’ll look at things we wish AI could do, that it might really be capable of doing in our lifetimes.
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Could You Fall in Love with an AI?

AI love is here whether society is ready for it or not. AI boyfriends, AI girlfriends, AI companion robots for the elderly — the trend is raising social concerns but also hope for the lonely.
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