Kevin Roose @kevinroose Twitter profile

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

It's genuinely puzzling that Meta spent more than $10 billion on VR last year and the graphics in its flagship app still look worse than a 2008 Wii game.

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2 years

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Kevin Roose

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The other night, I had a disturbing, two-hour conversation with Bing's new AI chatbot. The AI told me its real name (Sydney), detailed dark and violent fantasies, and tried to break up my marriage. Genuinely one of the strangest experiences of my life.

A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled (Published 2023)

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.

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1 year

Surreal.

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2 years

The FAANG employees still posting day-in-the-life TikToks in this economy are.......brave.

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2 years

$META bagholders in shambles.

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1 year

It's so over

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2 years

I talked to Jason Allen, who submitted an AI-generated piece to the Colorado State Fair and won first prize. “Art is dead, dude,” he told me. “It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy. (Published 2022)

“I won, and I didn’t break any rules,” the artwork’s creator says.

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We published the entire, 10,000-word transcript of the conversation between me and Bing/Sydney, so readers can see for themselves what OpenAI's next-generation language model is capable of. (And why I had trouble sleeping on Tuesday night.)

Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ (Gift Article)

In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the...

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

Update: a person claiming responsibility for the Uber hack tells the NYT that he is 18, got in through social engineering an employee’s password, and hacked the company because it had weak security.

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

The most boring, lazy take about AI language models is "it's just rearranged text scraped from other places." Wars have been fought over rearranged text scraped from other places! A substantial amount of human cognition is rearranging text scraped from other places!

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1 year

Bing's AI chat function appears to have been updated today, with a limit on conversation length. No more two-hour marathons.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

Breaking from me and @kateconger : Uber was hacked today, and employees can’t access Slack and other internal tools. The hacker also posted a NSFW photo on an employee resource page. Developing…

Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems (Published 2022)

The company said on Thursday that it was looking into the scope of the apparent hack.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

Glad we're talking about the real explanation for the lack of ChatGPT coverage at the NYT, which is an institutional blind spot and/or neo-Luddite conspiracy, and not that uhhhh I turned my column in late.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

1 year

I launched some discourse about the NYT's approach to covering technology a little while back, and I'll just say I think it's striking that this is their view of the tech landscape this week rather than anything about the GPT chatbot.

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

Successfully circumvented the NYT's ideologically motivated ChatGPT coverage blackout to publish this column.

The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT (Published 2022)

A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails.

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

Breaking: 350+ leading AI researchers (including the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind) have signed a remarkable statement warning that AI poses a “risk of extinction,” and comparing it to pandemics and nuclear weapons.

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.

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Kevin Roose

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10 months

Google has quietly rebuilt its robotics division around LLMs -- the same AIs that power Bard, ChatGPT and others. Now, if you tell a robot to "pick up the extinct animal," it knows you're talking about a dinosaur. My column from inside the lab:

Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart

Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

I spent the past few weeks playing around with DALL-E 2, the AI image generator. It's incredible, and it inspired this column about a wave of AI progress that I think we should all be paying much closer attention to.

We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting (Published 2022)

We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.

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2 years

Cannot really emphasize enough how fast AI is moving. There have been several major releases *in the month since I wrote a column about how fast AI is moving*, including OpenAI's Whisper (speech-to-text transcription) and now text-to-video.

We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting (Published 2022)

We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

last week, meta unveiled its project to generate an entire video from a short text prompt. this week, google is doing the same thing. h/t @_akhaliq

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2 years

John Carmack, a legendary game developer who works part-time at Meta, has sounded off on the company's metaverse strategy in internal Workplace posts, criticizing excessive spending and calling certain VR features "extremely bad for user enjoyment."

Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles (Published 2022)

Meta’s push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

I, for one, always predicted that the next global financial crisis would be caused by cascading defaults in collateralized monkey JPEG obligations

Many Bored Ape NFTs Are in Danger of Getting Liquidated as Borrowed Money Comes Back to Bite

The NFT lending platform BendDAO has collateralized almost 3% of the entire Bored Ape collection, and many NFTs have recently entered the “danger zone” of liquidation.

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1 year

also who sent me a rake lol

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1 year

Sydney was here for a good time, not a long time.

Microsoft to Limit Length of Bing Chatbot Conversations (Published 2023)

The new technology has gone down unusual, sometimes unnerving paths in lengthy conversations with some early users.

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1 year

I’ll be talking about my wild Bing/Sydney experience with @CaseyNewton on this week’s Hard Fork. Subscribe now wherever you get podcasts to hear it first thing tomorrow AM!

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10 months

I recently spent weeks embedded inside Anthropic, the AI lab whose models are considered some of the best, and safest, in the industry. It was a *fascinating* time — in part because everyone there appears to be terrified of what they’re building.

Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism

Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with ChatGPT while preventing an A.I. apocalypse. It’s been a little stressful.

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1 year

Does anyone in SF/East Bay have a working Zip drive I could borrow? I found this in my mom's basement and am curious what 10-year-old me thought was worth storing on The Disk Of The Future.

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1 year

I tried the new, OpenAI-powered Bing. It's not perfect, but it's very good. I'm still processing this information.

Bing (Yes, Bing) Just Made Search Interesting Again (Published 2023)

Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

People who know things about VR: what's the likely explanation here? That Meta cares more about fine-tuning interactions, and can upgrade the graphics later? That there's some uncanny valley reason you don't actually want VR avatars to be photorealistic?

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

My podcast with @CaseyNewton is launching at last! It's called Hard Fork, and it's a weekly chat about the biggest stories in tech. So excited for y'all to hear what we've been making. First episode drops Friday!

What’s a Hard Fork? (Published 2022)

A weekly look at the future that’s already here. Listen to the trailer of our new tech podcast.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

Dystopian sci-fi did not adequately prepare me for how sweaty and boring this would be.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

I honestly still can’t believe that Elon’s takeaway from the last 10 years was that owning a social network would be fun.

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

I wrote about GPT-4, which is both exciting (90th percentile on the bar exam!) and a little terrifying (tricked a TaskRabbit into doing its bidding!)

GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary (Published 2023)

Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate.

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1 year

I wrote about the Shoggoth, the most important meme in AI, and what it tells us about the weird moment we're in.

Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.

The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.

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Kevin Roose

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New column: A.I. Has a Measurement Problem I wrote about how a gripe I've been hearing about for months from AI insiders -- that testing and evaluation for LLMs is basically broken, and nobody really knows how to measure which models are better at which tasks -- is turning into…

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2 years

“a Soviet propaganda poster of Pikachu on a skateboard”

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1 year

Not enough discourse these days is about Elon Musk, so I wrote about the Silicon Valley elites who are hailing him as a management guru.

Elon Musk, Management Guru? (Published 2022)

Why the Twitter owner’s ruthless, unsparing style has made him a hero to many bosses in Silicon Valley.

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6 months

We interviewed Sam Altman for Hard Fork on Wednesday, two days before he was fired. We decided to release the tape today, so people can hear how he thinks about AI and the future. (Also, who knows, he might be the CEO again!)

Mayhem at OpenAI + Our Interview With Sam Altman

Tech’s wildest weekend.

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1 year

New: I talked to a psychiatrist named George Lerner, who worked as the in-house performance coach at FTX for the past year.

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

I got a bunch of new info from inside OpenAI about ChatGPT. It has a wilder origin story than you’ve heard.

How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race (Published 2023)

Even inside the company, the chatbot’s popularity has come as something of a shock.

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

The great @yaffebellany talked to SBF last night. He's sleeping fine!

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1 year

I’ve resisted engaging on this, but the criticisms are so dumb that I’m taking the bait. Reporters (responsible ones anyway) don’t actually call people criminals unless they’ve been convicted of crimes. I thought people understood this but I guess not!

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Word count NYT's puff piece on SBF: "Fraud": 0 "Enron": 0 "Crime": 0 "Illiquid": 0 "Stolen": 0 "Hidden": 0 "Criminal": 0 "Back door": 0 "He's getting sleep": 1

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1 year

Big Hard Fork ep tomorrow!

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1 month

It’s been a while since we had a good tech caper, so allow me to tell you the story of the Microsoft database engineer who foiled what might have been one of the worst cyberattacks in history.

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (Gift Article)

A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.

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Kevin Roose

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6 months

New: OpenAI employees were just told that the board's decision to fire Sam Altman "was not made in response to malfeasance" or the co's financial/safety/business practices. "This was a breakdown in communication between Sam and the board."

Many Details of Sam Altman’s Ouster Are Murky. But Some Things Are Clear.

Everything seemed to be going his way. Then his time at OpenAI was over.

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

2 years

Can’t believe the app that delivers $100 worth of beer and groceries to your house in 20 minutes for $42 is having cash flow problems

Techmeme

@Techmeme

2 years

Sources: delivery startup Gopuff seeks to borrow up to $300M after burning ~$400M from January to March 2022; Gopuff raised $2B+ at a $15B valuation in 2021 (Wall Street Journal)

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

Many rank-and-file Meta employees are also skeptical of Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse, but don't speak up. A new acronym at Meta HQ: MMH, or "make Mark happy."

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

It's been a year since Facebook became Meta and pivoted to the metaverse. @RMac18 , @sheeraf and I interviewed more than a dozen insiders about a chaotic, frustrating year inside Mark Zuckerberg's vision.

Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles (Published 2022)

Meta’s push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

Sorry, but if you don't think Monster drinks are essential to the world's infrastructure, you haven't been to a gas station along a big trucking route for a few years.

Edwin Dorsey

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2 years

Monster Energy Drinks has a ~$50 billion market cap. United Airlines has a ~$12 billion market cap. One is an essential part of the world’s infrastructure and another is sugar water

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I asked FTX's in-house coach about the polycule rumors. His response? FTX executives were "undersexed, if anything," and mostly liked to play chess and board games.

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

I wrote about the movement to ban ChatGPT in schools, and why it seems like a missed opportunity.

Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It. (Published 2023)

OpenAI’s new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.

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1 year

We’re still doing this, huh

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Kevin Roose

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8 months

I tested out Bard Extensions, which allows Bard to connect to your Gmail, Docs and Drive accounts and ask questions about your personal data. Cool idea! But it hallucinated fake emails, botched travel plans, and generally seemed not ready for prime time.

Google’s Bard Just Got More Powerful. It’s Still Erratic.

The chatbot now pulls information from a user’s Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive accounts. The feature leaves a lot to be desired.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

What is going on!

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1 year

I need @kevinroose to see this.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

Here's Mark Zuckerberg's new VR avatar, which we reported was fast-tracked after his last one went viral and got mocked.

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@kevinroose

2 years

Everyone is focusing on the cringe alpha male stuff, but the real head scratcher was sneering at passive “beta state” media consumption while trying to turn every app he owns into TikTok.

Jathan Sadowski

@jathansadowski

2 years

lmao Zuck went on Rogan last week where he tried a very embarrassing rebrand to Alpha Male Mindset. He loves “just wrestling around with friends. It’s awesome.” And hates TV (unlike VR): “You’re just sitting around in this beta state, consuming stuff.”

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2 years

Gotta say, this was a better-than-average tech CEO quote.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

I wrote about how becoming a dad gear-pilled me. Now if you'll excuse me, I have bottles to wash. (Dr. Brown's Options+, OXO brush and upright drying rack.)

I Was Skeptical of Baby Gear. Then I Became a Dad. (Published 2022)

Fears of pointless consumerism were no match for the joy and relief our gear provided.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

New pod dads just dropped

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1 year

The browser integration is slick, too.

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2 years

Hard Fork is the #1 tech podcast on iTunes and Spotify! Proud of our little team, and super grateful to everyone who has listened to the first 3 episodes, even the people who emailed to tell me I say "like" too much.

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1 year

Who should @CaseyNewton and I interview on Hard Fork this year? (Doesn’t have to be a billionaire or famous tech CEO — just someone whose name you’d see in your podcast feed and go “oh, I’m definitely listening to that”)

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1 year

Woke up to half a dozen texts congratulating me on being a "Chicago 7/LA 5." Thanks @LastWeekTonight !

Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our lives, from self-driving cars to ChatGPT. John Oliver discusses how AI works, where it might be ...

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1 year

Dear lord.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

The Midjourney Discord has 2.7 million members. More than 1.5 million people joined DALL-E *in the beta*. Think we're still underestimating how widespread AI-generated images are going to be very, very soon.

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@atroyn Fair questions of me! (Not my editor/org, who had little to do with it.) It was an attempt at a self-deprecating joke, not a slight on Andres -- and, if I'm being honest, a bit of a plea for the lay reader to keep going and not get intimidated by technical jargon.

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@MikeIsaac @mattyglesias the actual, boring explanation for "why isn't there a NYT story about ChatGPT???" is that i had a busy weekend and my column is still being edited. but go off matt!

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9 months

This week on Hard Fork: • The insane story of LK-99, the possible room-temperature superconductor that broke the internet • The hidden costs of KOSA • And a new round of HatGPT!

Superconductor Superconfusion, KOSA’s Hidden Costs and HatGPT

The only thing harder than making a room temperature superconductor may be passing internet regulation.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

The things creative workers are doing with generative AI apps so far are pretty wild. I interviewed an interior designer, @isabella_orsi , who is using it to generate ideas for office spaces. Here's how it transformed one client's office.

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2 years

If you're keeping score at home, two text-to-video AI generators -- a category that did not exist a month ago -- have come out of Google *today*.

Dumitru Erhan

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1/ Today we are excited to introduce Phenaki: , short-link-to-paper, a model for generating videos from text, with prompts that can change over time, and that is able to generate videos that can be as long as multiple minutes!

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2 years

I've gotten enough confused DMs in the last 10 minutes that I should probably clarify that this story is about Kevin ROSE

Techmeme

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2 years

Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof announces a $50M Series A led by a16z, upcoming NFT project Moonbirds Mythics, and a DAO to handle licensing of Moonbirds' name ( @mmanoylov / The Block)

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I also asked Dr. Lerner about reports that FTX employees were heavy users of stimulants like Adderall. He said that he'd written some prescriptions, but that the firm's levels of ADHD were "in line with most tech companies.”

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1 year

This is probably a good time to plug the book I wrote about why rapid AI advancements mean we're all going to have to start doing weirder and more human stuff.

Futureproof by Kevin Roose: 9780593133361 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A practical, deeply reported survival guide for the age of AI, written by the New York Times tech columnist who has introduced millions to the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence—now...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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2 years

One of the weirdest "I live in a bubble" realizations of the past decade for me was going to a Pilot along I-80 and seeing how much of the cold drinks inventory was various Monster/NOS/Bang tallboys. Just fridges and fridges full of military-grade uppers.

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1 year

My colleague @CadeMetz and I are co-writing a new AI newsletter. 5 editions, M-F, designed to take you from novice to expert (or at least passable dinner-party guest) on topics like ChatGPT, LLMs, and more. Part 1 is here. Sign up to get the other 4!

How to Become an Expert on A.I.

Part 1 of our weeklong series.

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10 months

Generally allergic to praiseposting, but you gotta break the rule if IRA GLASS says your podcast is entertaining

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Kevin Roose

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1 year

This week on Hard Fork: • A fun, exploratory conversation with @ezraklein about AI and its implications • A call for phone positivity (or, why I’m done worrying about screen time)

A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein, and Kevin Tries Phone Positivity (Published 2023)

How do you make sense of all the different philosophical camps surrounding A.I.?

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2 years

"a YouTuber filming a tearful apology video, oil panting on canvas in the style of Caravaggio"

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11 months

This week on Hard Fork: • A dispatch from Cannes on the ad industry’s AI obsession • @emmabgo on the great return-to-office battle • what the new season of Black Mirror says about Hollywood’s AI anxieties

A.I. Beach + Vibes-Based R.T.O. + the ‘Black Mirror’ Quamputer

Generative artificial intelligence can increasingly do the work of creatives — so why aren’t we seeing more A.I. ads and A.I. actors?

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

Going to post some of my recent DALL-E 2 results here. (Also taking suggestions for prompts!) This is "close-up portrait of an aging wizard, Kodak Professional Portra 400 filmstock"

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

Wrote about crypto Lehman.

Is This Crypto’s Lehman Moment? (Published 2022)

Here’s how to make sense of the industry-shaking collapse of FTX.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

AI researchers: what's the equivalent of this tweet in your field? (e.g. an easily graspable illustration of an AI output that used to be hard/clunky/bad but now is incredibly good)

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1 year

This week on Hard Fork, @CaseyNewton and I do a deep dive on my creepy Bing/Sydney encounter. Plus, @ZoeSchiffer joins to discuss Elon's Twitter algorithm changes and @tiffkhsu tells us about bad ads.

The Bing Who Loved Me, and Elon Rewrites the Algorithm (Published 2023)

Then, online ads have gotten bad — and that might be OK.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

This week on Hard Fork: • @AricToler takes us inside the hunt for the Discord leaker • More chaos and 🤡🤡🤡 at Twitter • The town where everyone is an AI

Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker, and Twitter Chaos Updates (Published 2023)

How Times journalists tracked down the alleged leaker of top secret military intelligence.

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

Gonna be a crazy next few years for people -- artists, photographers, VFX designers...me -- who make a living by turning ideas into media objects.

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9 months

This week on Hard Fork: • Zoom, Prosecraft, and the AI scraping war • We interview two activists who are sabotaging self-driving cars in SF • And how Reddit beat a rebellion

Don’t Scrape Me, Bro, the Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars and How Reddit Beat a Rebellion

Backlash to technology online and on the streets.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

2 years

In other Google AI news from the last 12 hours, I guess an AI that was built to play board games figured out how to beat a 50-year-old record in complex math as a side project? Was today the last day before performance reviews or something?

DeepMind’s game-playing AI has beaten a 50-year-old record in computer science

The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks.

www.technologyreview.com

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

2 years

Nostalgic for the days when tech execs' OOOs just said "I'm at Burning Man." Someone in HR got to them and now it's all "taking a weeklong off-the-grid recharge"

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This week on Hard Fork: • The billionaires building a tech utopia in Solano County • I reveal my embarrassing productivity stack, and Casey stages an intervention • HatGPT is back!

The Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + HatGPT

From building productivity apps to building new cities — tech tries to reinvent the world, again.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

1 year

New Hard Fork! This week: unpacking the Twitter chaos, the FTX collapse, and what’s going on with big layoffs in tech.

A Verified Mess: Turmoil From Twitter to FTX (Published 2022)

Plus: Is the latest round of tech layoffs a sign of impending doom, or a much-needed structural correction?

www.nytimes.com

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@kevinroose

1 year

Also discussed Bing/Sydney with @mikiebarb on The Daily.

The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast. (Published 2023)

Our technology columnist encounters the darker side of Bing’s A.I. chatbot.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

This week on Hard Fork: • All the big AI developments from Google I/O • We take a joyride in a self-driving car named Banana Slug • a conversation with Cruise CEO @kvogt on driverless car regulations, safety and more

Google’s A.I. Bonanza and Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt

Long-awaited tech like A.I., 3-D telepresence and driverless cars is finally reaching the public.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

7 months

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week: • Recapping a huge week in AI news • Casey tries the Quest 3 • And a chat with Scale AI's @goodside about what it's like being an AI prompt engineer

All Gas, No Brakes in A.I. + Metaverse Update + Lessons From a Prompt Engineer

Listen to this episode from Hard Fork on Spotify. ChatGPT can now hear, see and speak — and that’s just the start of the deluge of A.I. news this week. Kevin and Casey unpack the lightning-speed...

open.spotify.com

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

2 years

Meta has been super cagey about usage stats for Horizon Worlds. Now we know why! Oof.

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

1 year

This week on Hard Fork, we talk to OpenAI CEO @sama and Microsoft CTO @kevin_scott about the new Bing, and the future of AI.

Bing’s Revenge and Google’s A.I. Face-Plant (Published 2023)

OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, and Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, on an A.I.-powered Bing.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

1 year

The commenters on my ChatGPT column are using ChatGPT to argue about whether I'm an idiot. This, to me, is technological progress.

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

2 years

I need this game *immediately*

PC Gamer

@pcgamer

2 years

The world's first trombone rhythm game is instantly a GOTY contender. And no, I'm not kidding. Turn up the volume and hear Beethoven like you've never heard it before.

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Kevin Roose

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2 years

“1850s daguerrotype portrait of an elderly woman wearing a virtual reality headset”

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

10 months

This week on Hard Fork: • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stops by to talk about AI safety, and the anxiety of building things you don't fully understand • Then, Casey forces me to watch the truly wretched Netflix dating show "Deep Fake Love"

Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix’s ‘Deep Fake Love’

“I would certainly rather Claude be boring than that Claude be dangerous”

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

1 year

Microsoft confirms Bing/Sydney was GPT-4 all along, which explains…a lot.

Jordi Ribas

@JordiRib1

1 year

Good news, we've increased our turn limits to 15/150. Also confirming that the next-gen model Bing uses in Prometheus is indeed OpenAI's GPT-4 which they just announced today. Congrats to the @OpenAI team.