It’s not always easy to separate hyped-up AI fiction from reality. We created the AI Hype Index to give you a quick, easy summary of what’s going on in the industry.
Large-scale language models confidently present themselves as reliable and accurate, even when neither are true. It’s no wonder that chatbots have recently been known to amplify the delusions of vulnerable people, make citation errors in a legal battle between Anthropic and music publishers, and rant irrationally (in xAI’s Grok’s case) about “white genocide.” But AI could also lead to a longer battery life for iPhones and solve real-world problems humans have struggled to solve, if Google DeepMind’s new model is anything to go by It could also be combined with brain implants to allow people to communicate even when they lose the ability to talk.
