ai bots, ai development, ai-generated faces, chatgpt, new tech

Grok Is Elon Musk’s New Sassy, Foul-Mouthed AI. But Who Exactly Is It Made For?

On November 4, X owner Elon Musk unveiled his new AI chatbot Grok: a sarcastic ChatGPT alternative supposedly “modeled” after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of Musk’s favorite books. Grok means “to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with.” Science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein first coined the term, which people in the ...

Troy Oakes

The Grok logo on a smartphone screen.

Do You Trust AI to Write the News? It Already Is, but Not Without Issues

Businesses are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate media content, including news, to engage their customers. Now, we’re even seeing AI used for the “gamification” of news — that is, to create interactivity associated with news content. For better or worse, AI is changing the nature of news media. And we’ll have to wise ...

Troy Oakes

Online news.

A Secret AI Bot War Is Happening Right Under Your Nose

Thousands of AI (artificial intelligence) bots crawl the Internet every second for purposes that range from collecting pricing information from competing e-commerce retailers to editing Wikipedia pages. And unknown to the average Internet user, there is a secret bot war going on over the Internet, involving the companies that employ such bots and the bots ...

Armin Auctor

An Amazon center.