Reddit has launched a new AI-powered feature called Reddit Answers, powered by Google Gemini. It scans posts and comments across subreddits, summarizing all of that collective wisdom into a tidy, ...

Experts say the new feature may offer dubious advice in response to personal health queries. By Talya Minsberg Do you have a headache or is it a sinus infection? What does a stress fracture feel like?

The search engine has been a key Internet tool since the early days. Before the Web was a thing, I fondly remember Archie (from “archive” without the “v”), which indexed filenames on FTP servers, ...

Beat experts across the newsroom responded to you. By Adam B. Kushner I am the editor of The Morning. Artificial intelligence is no longer a gee-whiz technology. It’s already reshaping the workplace, ...

When online search engines first appeared, they seemed miraculous. Now, though? It is a truth near-universally acknowledged that search is in the dumps, corroded by spam and ads. Big players like ...

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Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot can be powerful. Even though generative AI is a fairly new technology, a powerful limitation on its use dates back to the 1950s or earlier: GIGO.

Since the emergence of artificial intelligence a few years ago, I’ve been split between two sides of the ongoing debate. Is AI evil or the next revolutionary advance in society? On the one hand, I’m a ...