Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodos weekly deep dive on whats been happening in artificial intelligence.

As 2024 begins, there is plenty of speculation about what lies ahead for artificial intelligence.

This year probably wont be much different.

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Arecent surveyof business leaders showed that 40 percent said they would probably conduct additional layoffs in 2024.

40 percent of those surveyed said that they planned to replace laid-off workers with AI.

AI will continue to be a major disinformation generator.

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AI will continue to make the entertainment industry more annoying.

This year, much of that will continue and I, for one, am not excited about it.

Even before AI came on the scene, pop culture in America was already in trouble.

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Get ready for more cloying enthusiasm from the worst parts of the tech world.

2023 was the year that a new techno-utopian ideology sprang up to support the nascent AI industry.

Police technologies will get much creepier.

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Question of the day: What is botshit?

More headlines this week

The King is back, with a little help from AI.

Well, not literally.

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Rather, an AI-fueled hologram of him will be used to perform a concert in London this November.

Turns out OpenAI is a total cheapskate when it comes to paying news publishers.

In December, the New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of copyright infringement.

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However, it doesnt sound like newspapers stand to gain much from those deals.

Jeff Bezos is coming for Google with a new AI startup.

Everybodys favorite bald billionaire is trying to break into the AI game by backing a new startup.

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Perplexity promises to upend the way people surf the web by offering what it calls an answer engine.

News from the future, delivered to your present.

Why the Hell Is OpenAI Building an X Clone?

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OpenAI is reportedly planning on making a social media platform because content to train on ain’t cheap.

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