Geoffrey A. Fowler

Wow: Meta has been working on plans to add facial recognition technology to its AI smart glasses. nyti.ms/3Os1oxf

And this was the company’s cynical view on when, and how, to do it:

New on my Substack: ChatGPT thinks the South has stupider people.
It thinks sub-Saharan Africa has the worst-quality food.
And it thinks the whiter your neighborhood, the more attractive the people.
New research lets you see ChatGPT's hidden biases about YOUR community. 🧵

For 8 years my stories had to include: "Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, but I review all technology with the same critical eye."
Not anymore.
My first Substack is about what it was like covering Amazon while Bezos paid my salary—and why accountability matters. Link below.

After 8 years writing the tech column @washingtonpost, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI.

You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com

You can now connect ChatGPT to an Apple Watch.
So I imported 29 mil steps and 6 mil heartbeats into the new ChatGPT Health.
It graded my heart an F.
Cardiologist @erictopol called it “baseless.”
Any bot claiming to give health insights shouldn’t be this clueless. Even in beta. 🧵