May 4, 2018 2:49 PM

Dating on Facebook and the Virtual Insanity of F8

This week is all about Facebook's F8 developer conference: New dating features, AI ethics, and VR magic.

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We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

Brian Barrett

Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.

Will Knight

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

Tom Bristow

Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

Kate Taylor

Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

Steven Levy

My Friend Has No Soul

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.

Boone Ashworth

Livestream Replay: Watch Uncanny Valley on Women, Tech, and Power

Missed our latest WIRED@Night event? Enjoy an evening of podcasting in San Francisco right here.

WIRED Staff

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

Lily Hay Newman

OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me

Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.

Reece Rogers

Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

Zoë Schiffer

WIRED Ghost Stories

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

Zoë Schiffer