Jose Antonio Lanz - Decrypt
Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.
A portrait of computer science pioneer Alan Turing by humanoid robot artist Ai-Da sold for $1.08 million at Sotheby's, marking another milestone in AI art's rapid market ascent. The sale price exceeded pre-auction estimates building on momentum from previous AI art breakthroughs. The price nearly 10-X’d earlier predictions, which assumed that the piece wouldn’t top $180,000 at auction.
The Impact of AI in Art
Michael Bouhanna, Sotheby's head of digital art, told Decrypt the timing reflected an emerging trend especially...AI-generated profile pictures are becoming a significant tool for coordinated manipulation on X, with researchers from Germany identifying nearly 8,000 accounts using synthetic faces primarily focused on amplifying political messages and crypto schemes.
The Environmental Impact of the AI Boom
The artificial intelligence boom isn't just consuming massive amounts of energy and water: It's also creating an unprecedented tsunami of electronic waste. According to Stanford University, private investment in AI went from $3 billion in 2022 to $25 billion last year, with companies adopting AI tools faster than ever. This surge is forcing data centers to continually upgrade their hardware, discarding still-functional equipment in a race to maintain a competitive edge.
The Future of AI in Development
You might think AI is coming for developers' jobs—after all, AWS CEO Matt Garman predicted most developers won't be coding within two years, and former Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque gives programmers just five years. But GitHub's latest data tells a strikingly different story. According to a recent report, developer activity hit unprecedented levels in 2024. Total projects on GitHub grew 25% year-over-year to 518 million, while contributions reached 5.2 billion. More than one million open-source...
Advancements in AI Models
Stand aside Flux and MidJourney: There's a new player that just shot to the top of AI image generation rankings. A mystery model formerly known as Red Panda—which had AI watchers scratching their heads on Artificial Analysis’s leaderboards—finally revealed itself as Recraft V3, a fresh release from a little-known London startup. The model enjoyed the top score on the ELO rating system for image generators, outperforming Flux 1.1 Pro and MidJourney. In terms of efficiency, Recraft V3 matches SDXL...
OpenAI Web Search Capabilities
OpenAI officially launched web search capabilities in ChatGPT today, transforming its conversational AI into a potent search competitor. The integration arrives first for paid subscribers and SearchGPT waitlist users, with a broader rollout planned for free, enterprise, and education users in the coming weeks. “Now, chat can get you to a better answer: Ask a question in a more natural, conversational way, and ChatGPT can choose to respond with information from the web.,” OpenAI said in an offici...
The Future of Baseball Predictions with AI
Numbers never tell the whole story in baseball. But they tell enough of it—we think. Armed with little more than a penchant for AI and a stack of baseball stats, we created a chatbot that would predict the World Series outcome. On Monday, against the odds, it predicted that the Los Angeles Dodgers would win Game 3 and eventually take the World Series. As we saw last night, the chatbot got the first part right, at least. Today, it’s saying that not only will the Dodgers win the World Series, but...
