Some busy parents are adopting AI apps that help with meal-planning or parenting to reduce the mental load and arguments that come with running a household.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Are AI data centers influencing electricity costs in Maine?
The artificial intelligence boom is reportedly driving up electricity costs throughout the country. So far, Maine has been spared, and officials are working to mitigate future impacts.
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Posted inNews
Winthrop among first towns in Maine to consider AI policy
Winthrop’s draft policy, based on recommendations from the Maine Municipal Association, addresses security and privacy.
Posted inHealth, Maine
Maine health advocates’ 2025 priorities include higher tobacco tax, AI protections
Groups also hope to see legislation addressing the health care worker shortage and medical cannabis.
Posted inTimes Record
A hope and a wish for the new year regarding artificial intelligence
A look through recent articles about artificial intelligence reveals a range of reactions to its rapid development. As with new inventions and ideas, some of us gravitate toward them, eagerly exploring their possibilities for making life better; others are uneasy, convinced they are a source of mischief and tragedy. Most are curious, waiting to see […]
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said, researchers say
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw: It is reportedly prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences.
Posted inBusiness
AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?
One reason why the current wave of AI research is so closely tied to Silicon Valley is that only a handful of corporations have the resources to build the most powerful AI systems.
Posted inNation & World, News
Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
John Hinton, who is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto. Geoffrey Hopfield is an American working at Princeton.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Opinion: Artificial intelligence has no place in the classroom
Tools like ChatGPT discourage critical thinking, short circuit the learning process and disconnect students from each other.
Posted inBusiness
OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots, convert to fully for-profit company
While OpenAI already has a for-profit division, where most of its staff works, it is controlled by a nonprofit board of directors whose mission is to help humanity.