I tried the most realistic AI voice companion ever created - if ChatGPT or Gemini ever gets this good, reality is in trouble

I have spent a lot of time talking to AI. I’ve tested every voice assistant, every chatbot, and every “next-generation” conversational AI that tech companies love to hype up. But I’ve never encountered anything quite like Sesame.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/i-tried-the-most-realistic-ai-voice-companion-ever-created-if-chatgpt-or-gemini-ever-gets-this-good-reality-is-in-trouble

Fiverr’s New Suite Of AI Tools Could Reshape The Freelance Economy

, Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kolawolesamueladebayo/2025/03/07/fiverrs-new-suite-of-ai-tools-could-reshape-the-freelance-economy/

ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it

BYResearchers are working to find ways to apply AI to mental health interventions.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://fortune.com/2025/03/09/openai-chatgpt-anxiety-mindfulness-mental-health-intervention/

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

Late last year, media outlets worldwide warned that black plastic cooking utensils contained worrying levels of cancer-linked flame retardants.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5

AI is creating 'overly compliant helpers,' not revolutionaries, said the top scientist at Hugging Face

AI excels at following instructions — but it's not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, said Thomas Wolf. The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company backed by Amazon and Nvidia, analyzed the limits of large language models in a Thursday post on X.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-not-revolutionaries-thomas-wolf-science-breakthrough-agent-hugging-face-2025-3

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-generative-ai-upending-freelance-safe.html

ORIGINAL LINK: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-generative-ai-upending-freelance-safe.html

China’s Autonomous Agent, Manus, Changes Everything

, Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Craig S. Smith, Eye on AI host and former NYT writer, covers AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/2025/03/08/chinas-autonomous-agent-manus-changes-everything/

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt sounds the alarm over a ‘Manhattan Project’ for superintelligent AI

BYEric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks are sounding the alarm about the global race to build superintelligent AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://fortune.com/2025/03/06/eric-schmidt-warning-manhattan-project-superintelligent-ai/

AI and the Public

As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in work, creative pursuits, and the generation of online misinformation, public libraries have a major new role to play in digital literacy. “Make your photos pop with Magic Editor” reads the landing page for Google’s new Pixel 9 smartphone.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/ai-and-the-public

I asked ChatGPT to work through some of the biggest philosophical debates of all time – here’s what happened

There’s endless debate about AI replacing human creativity, judgment, and decision-making. But what if, instead of replacing us, it could help us think more clearly? I expect that’ll be met with a resounding “no thanks!” from some of you (I get it), but bear with me.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/i-asked-chatgpt-to-work-through-some-of-the-biggest-philosophical-debates-of-all-time-heres-what-happened

Humanoid Robots Are Starting to Work Human Warehouse Jobs

We may now be nearing the point where humanoid robots are no longer just clumsy curiosities, but genuine candidates — if not outright replacements — for human jobs.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/humanoid-robots-warehouse-jobs

I stopped saying thanks to ChatGPT – here's what happened

The first time ChatGPT responded to me, I instinctively typed, “Thank you, ChatGPT!” It just felt natural.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/i-stopped-saying-thanks-to-chatgpt-heres-what-happened

OpenAI May Have Really Screwed Up With GPT-4.5

OpenAI is trying to have it both ways: calling GPT-4.5 its "largest and most knowledgeable model yet" while managing expectations, cautioning that it's "not a frontier model." Why? Probably because the company knew what the public response was going to be: muted.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/openai-screwed-up-gpt-4-5

AI Likely to Increase Inequality, Sam Altman Admits, or Control the "Population Through Mass Surveillance and Loss of Autonomy"

In a new post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI could lead to plenty of economic inequality while allowing authoritarian governments to "control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/ai-increase-inequality-sam-altman-admits

AI-designed chips so weird that 'humans cannot really understand them' — but they perform better than anything we've created

Engineering researchers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can design complex wireless chips in hours, a feat that would have taken humans weeks to complete.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/humans-cannot-really-understand-them-weird-ai-designed-chip-is-unlike-any-other-made-by-humans-and-performs-much-better