With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google's DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and by repeatedly playing itself during training. But then some odd things happened as people started identifying Go positions that would lose against relative newcomers to the game but easily defeat a similar Go-playing AI.
Kaplan says that he does see AI as something that could potentially help with some of the more mundane logistical sides of game development, but he feels that the technology and its peddlers are "overconfident" in what it offers. He tells a story of how he used ChatGPT to try to solve a UI problem, as that isn't his area of expertise, and the bot "overconfidently" gave him the wrong answer.
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When we decided to build our tiny home in late 2024, we had no building experience whatsoever. Simone had never even painted a wall before. Thankfully, ChatGPT had arrived at the perfect time. We spent our evenings asking it about almost everything. While AI was genuinely helpful during the building process, we quickly learned we couldn't rely on it alone.
If there's one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it's how they feel like magic until they don't. One moment, you're watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a remarkably sharp analysis of its architecture and design choices. And the next, it's spamming the console with "CoreCoreCoreCore" until the scroll-back buffer fills up and you've run out of tokens.
AI tools like ChatGPT have become pretty much inescapable. The generative chatbots are designed for mental outsourcing, helping humans research, learn, ideate, and even create. As these tools gain in popularity, there's a question of discernment that seems to be haunting us all: what is AI useful for, and what undertakings should be reserved for humans alone? Having ChatGPT help craft an itinerary for an upcoming vacation, for example, is helpful; having it finish a song you've been writing is...less so.
"I think that one should work from the facts rather than just trying to cause an alarm," Marcus told Business Insider. "Hyped-up views have gotten us into a bad place, possibly one that's going to lead to a serious economic recession or something like that," Marcus told Business Insider. "And I guess I think that one should work from the facts rather than just trying to cause an alarm."
As AI takes on more analytical and operational decision-making, the leaders who will stand out are those who can do what machines can't: read emotional cues, build trust, and inspire teams to act. In this new landscape, emotional intelligence is more than a soft skill. It's becoming the core differentiator of effective leadership. I once advised a CEO whose metrics looked flawless. Revenue was rising, costs were under control, and the company was steadily gaining market share.
Silicon Valley tech pioneer Andrew Ng says AI is still very limited in terms of practical applications despite its powerful capabilities. The tech founder and Stanford professor says humans won't be replaced any time soon, and AI-assisted coding by humans will still be in demand. [NBC Bay Area] About 6,000 residents and businesses in San Francisco's Golden Gate, Panhandle, and parts of the Sunset lost power Saturday around 11 am until about 3 pm, a week after the massive outage affecting about 200,000 residents.
I was like, okay, it's stupid. It makes a mistake, Moran said. Finally I said, hey, I'm Terry, tell me why you were calling me Joni.' [It]says, because you told me to.' I said, where did I tell you to?' It got in a fight. It was like angry. I am programmed to do what you tell me. You call yourself Joni.' I said, I have never done such.'
No doubt you've noticed it-along with millions of others who now rely on AI for everything from planning product launches and rewriting emails to turning their beloved pets into cartoons. The adoption speed has been remarkable. In just a few years, AI has gone from a buzzword to a daily fixture in countless workplaces. And for many, it's already hard to remember what work looked like without it.
Asam is one of many businesses executives who've been startlingly candid about their intentions to displace human labor with AI tools or agents. From their point of view, you can directly replace your overpaid, calling-in-sick grunts with ever-dependable AI agents. Or you can whittle your workforce down to a skeleton crew that are super efficient thanks to the magical abilities of AI.
Mickey Drexler redefined retail by radically remaking Gap and J.Crew, and working alongside Steve Jobs to guide the creation of the Apple Store. Now Drexler assesses some of the biggest stories in the retail industry today, from the weight of crippling tariffs and U.S. manufacturing skepticism to the controversial American Eagle campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney. Feisty as ever, Drexler shares his unvarnished view on in-office work, AI 's limitations, and why leaders need to follow their gut or get out of the way.
AI isn't ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say. Even when given access to tools, AI agents can't reliably debug software. AI models are a far cry from what an experienced human developer can do, producing code laden with bugs and security vulnerabilities, and unable to fix those problems. They serve best as assistants rather than replacements, saving substantial time for developers while still requiring human oversight.
