AI Reading List: Technologies: Generative AI, ChatGPT, GPT-4, etc.
Below is a portion of my informal list of readings related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This started out as a very short list created for use in conjunction with an academic presentation and has now grown much larger. Please let me know if you have any corrections, additions, suggestions, etc. It is very idiosyncratic and not meant to be comprehensive. Please feel free to share with others.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Reading List, by Philip Rubin
Technologies — Generative AI, ChatGPT, etc.:
Brian X. Chen. The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype. The New York Times, May 31, 2024.
David Pogue. ChatGPT Gets Real. The bot is now capable of a normal (human) conversation. Is that fun or terrifying? New York, May 9, 2024.
Brian Merchant. The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down. The Atlantic, Feb. 2, 2024.
Steve Lohr. Generative A.I.’s Biggest Impact Will Be in Banking and Tech, Report Says. The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2024.
Kevin Roose. Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me. The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2024.
Andy Clark. What Generative AI Reveals About the Human Mind. Time, January 5, 2024.
Steven Levy. In Defense of AI Hallucinations. Wired, January 5, 2024.
Jose Antonio Lanz. Even the Worst Version of Claude AI Is Better Than GPT 3.5, Researchers Say. Emerge, Oct. 5, 2023.
Cecily Mauran. ChatGPT Vision lets you submit images in your prompts: 7 wild ways people are using it. Mashable, Oct. 3, 2023.
The Week Staff. Artificial intelligence goes to school. The Week, August 12, 2023.
Ben Ash Bloom. To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test. Wired, August 10, 2023.
Maggie Harrison. When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen. Futurism, August 2, 2023.
Keyede Erinfolami. Why You Probably Shouldn't Use ChatGPT At Your Workplace (Or At All). SlashGear, July 5, 2023.
Joseph Green. 15 of the best AI and ChatGPT courses you can take online for free. Mashable, July 4, 2023.
Alberto Romero. BLOOM Is the Most Important AI Model of the Decade. The Algorithmic Bridge, June 28, 2023.
Eric Smalley. Generative AI: 5 essential reads about the new era of creativity, job anxiety, misinformation, bias and plagiarism. The Conversation, Apr. 19, 2023.
K. Thor Jensen. Yes, Machines Make Mistakes: The 10 Biggest Flaws In Generative AI. PC Magazine, Apr. 18, 2023.
Stephen Wolfrom. What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? Stephen Wolfram Writings, Apr. 14, 2023.
Cal Newport. What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? The New Yorker, Apr. 13, 2023.
Sidney Perkowitz. What Does ChatGPT Know About Science? Nautilus, Mar. 28, 2023.
Nico Grant and Cade Metz. Google Releases Bard, Its Competitor in the Race to Create A.I. Chatbots. The New York Times, Mar. 21, 2023.
Katyanna Quach. Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost. The Register, Mar. 21, 2023.
Benj Edwards. Anthropic introduces Claude, a “more steerable” AI competitor to ChatGPT. Ars Technica, Mar. 17, 2023.
Zeyi Yang. Chinese tech giant Baidu just released its answer to ChatGPT. MIT Technology Review, Mar. 16, 2023.
Gary Marcus. GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures. garymarcus.substack.com, Mar. 15, 2023.
Will Douglas Heaven. GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why. MIT Technology Review, Mar. 14, 2023.
Rose Wong. ChatGPT presents new risks—here are five things you can do to mitigate them. MIT Technology Review, Mar. 14, 2023.
Cade Metz and Keith Collins. 10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive but Still Flawed. The New York Times, Mar. 14, 2023.
Drew Harwell and Nitasha Tiku. GPT-4 has arrived. It will blow ChatGPT out of the water. The Washington Post, Mar. 14, 2023.
David J. Lobina. ChatGPT Hasn’t Learned Any Language And It Also Doesn’t Display General Intelligence (But You Can Ask It To Complete Your Sentences). 3 Quarks Daily, Mar. 13, 2023.
Janelle Shane. Search or fabrication? AI Weirdness, Mar. 11, 2023.
Ian Roberts, Noam Chomsky, and Jeffrey Watumull. Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT. The New York Times, Mar. 8, 2023.
Salk Institute. AI Chatbot ChatGPT Mirrors Its Users to Appear Intelligent. Neuroscience News, Mar. 6, 2023.
Lesley Stahl. The new world of AI chatbots like ChatGPT. CBS News, Mar. 5, 2023.
Jesus Rodriguez. Inside Claude: The ChatGPT Competitor that Just Raised Over $1 Billion. TheSequence, Mar. 2, 2023.
Elizabeth Weil. You Are Not a Parrot. New York Magazine, March 1, 2023.
Chloe Xiang. OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit. VICE, Feb. 28, 2023.
Nick Orlando. ChatGPT and ethical decision making: It’s not what can be done, but what should. VentureBeat, Feb. 24, 2023.
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary N. Smith. AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment. Salon, Feb. 21, 2023.
Matt Turck. 2023 data, ML and AI landscape: ChatGPT, generative AI and more.VentureBeat, Feb. 21, 2023.
Alvin Powell. Will ChatGPT supplant us as writers, thinkers? Pinker weighs in. The Harvard Gazette, Feb. 14, 2023.
Yejin Bang, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Nayeon Lee, Wenliang Dai, Dan Su, Bryan Wilie, Holy Lovenia, Ziwei Ji, Tiezheng Yu, Willy Chung, Quyet V. Do, Yan Xu, and Pascale Fung. A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity. arXiv:2302.04023, Feb. 8, 2023.
Maximilian Vogel. The ChatGPT list of lists. Medium, Feb. 7, 2023.
Geoffrey M. Rockwell. ChatGPT: Chatbots can help us rediscover the rich history of dialogue. The Conversation, Jan. 24, 2023
Pete Sena and ChatGPT. Debate: ChatGPT Makes the Case AGAINST Generative A.I. Creativity. MuseByClio, Jan. 24, 2023.
Benj Edwards. Fearing ChatGPT, Google enlists founders Brin and Page in AI fight. Ars Technica, Jan. 23, 2023.
Sharon Goldman. The human side of generative AI’s gold rush. VentureBeat, Jan. 23, 2023.
Alex Hammer. The rise of the machines? ChatGPT Can pass US Medical Licensing Exam and the Bar, experts warn. DailyMail, Jan. 23, 2023.
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary N. Smith. AI chatbots learned to write before they could learn to think. Salon, Jan. 22, 2023.
Steve Mollman. ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam and it’s still in its infancy. One professor is sounding the alarm. Fortune, Jan. 21, 2023.
Thomas Claburn. OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence. The Register, Jan. 20, 2023.
Cade Metz. How Smart Are the Robots Getting? The New York Times, Jan. 20, 2023.
Nick Vincent. ChatGPT Stole Your Work. So What Are You Going to Do? WIRED, Jan. 20, 2023.
Billy Perrigo. Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic. Time, Jan. 18, 2023.
Chris Stokel-Walker. ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove. Nature, Jan. 18, 2023.
Riley Goodside and Spencer Papay. Meet Claude: Anthropic’s Rival to ChatGPT. scale, Jan. 17, 2023.
Tatum Hunter. ChatGPT could make life easier. Here’s when it’s worth it. The Washington Post, Jan. 14, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Scientists, please don’t let your chatbots grow up to be co-authors. garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 13, 2023.
Kevin Roose. Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It. The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2023.
Kyle Wiggers. OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot. TechCrunch, Jan. 11, 2023.
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. Large Language Models like ChatGPT say The Darnedest Things. garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 9, 2023.
Kyle Wiggers. Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations. TechCrunch, Jan. 9, 2023.
Erin Griffith and Cade Metz. A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom. The New York Times, Jan. 7, 2023.
James Vincent. Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers. The Verge, Jan. 5, 2023.
Samantha Cole. NYC Bans Students and Teachers from Using ChatGPT. Vice, Jan. 4, 2023.
Edd Gent. ChatGPT’s AI Can Help Screen For Alzheimer’s - Unusual speech patterns provide new inroads for diagnosis of the disease. IEEE Spectrum, Jan. 4, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search? garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 30, 2022.
Gary Marcus. What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4. garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 25, 2022.
Gary Marcus. What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4. garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 25, 2022.
Stephen Shankland. Why Everyone's Obsessed With ChatGPT, a Mind-Blowing AI Chatbot. CNET, Dec. 23, 2022.
Molly Welch. The rise, and fall, and rise of conversational AI. Molly Welch’s newsletter. Dec. 23, 2022.
Marco Ramponi. How ChatGPT actually works. AssemblyAI, Dec. 22, 2022.
Claire Cain Miller, Adam Playford, Larry Buchanan, and Aaron Krolik. Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot? The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2022.
Brian X. Chen. How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person. The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2022.
Nico Grant and Cade Metz. A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business. The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2022.
Tressie McMillan Cottom. Human This Christmas. The New York Times, Dec. 20, 2022.
Melissa Heikkiläa. How AI-generated text is poisoning the internet. MIT Technology Review, Dec. 20, 2022.
Louis Rosenberg. Generative AI: The technology of the year for 2022. Big Think, Dec. 20, 2022.
Peter Coy. My So-So Encounters with ChatGPT. The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2022.
Will Knight. The Spawn of ChatGPT Will Try to Sell You Things. WIRED, Dec. 16, 2022.
Farhad Manjoo. ChatGPT Has a Devastating Sense of Humor. The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2022.
Frank Bruni. Will ChatGPT Make Me Irrelevant? The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2022.
Zeyneck Tufekci. What Would Plato Say About ChatGPT? The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2022.
Kate Darling. ChatGPT: A scientist explains the hidden genius and pitfalls of OpenAI's chatbot. Science Focus, Dec. 14, 2022.
Mary Harrington. Humans will defeat the chatbots. UnHerd.com, Dec. 13, 2022.
Beth McMurtrie. AI and the Future or Undergraduate Writing. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 13, 2022.
The Conversation. Everyone’s having a field day with ChatGPT – but nobody knows how it actually works. The Conversation, Dec. 13, 2022.
Gary Marcus. AI’s Jurassic Park moment. garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 10, 2022.
Cade Metz. The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them? The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2022.
Cade Metz. A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest? The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2022.
Scott Simon. Opinion: Machine-made poetry is here. NPR, Dec. 10, 2022.
Amit Katwala. ChatGPT’s Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS. WIRED, Dec. 9, 2022.
Jacob Stern. Five Remarkable Chats That Will Help You Understand ChatGPT. The Atlantic, Dec. 8, 2022.
Cassie Kozyrkov. Introducing ChatGPT! The Revolutionary New Tool for Conversation Generation. Medium.com, Dec. 7, 2022.
Daniel Lametti. A.I. Could Be Great for College Essays. SLATE, Dec. 7, 2022.
Kumar Mehta. Using The Most Powerful AI Just Got Simpler. Forbes, Dec. 7, 2022.
Paul Krugman. Does ChatGPT Mean Robots Are Coming For the Skilled Jobs? The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2022.
Ax Sharma. OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 dangerous things it's capable of. Bleeping Computer, Dec. 6, 2022.
Kevin Roose. The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT. The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2022.
Gary Marcus. How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next? garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 1, 2022.
ChatGPT signup (might be a waiting list).
Wikipedia. Chatbot.
Wikipedia. ChatGPT.
(See, also, the Image Generation section in this AI Reading List.)