Artificial intelligence is already part of the daily life of primary care in Catalonia. In fact, ChatGPT is the most used tool by family doctors, far ahead of other options, according to a study published in The Lancet Primary Care. The work, promoted by the Societat Catalana de Medicina Familiar i Comunitària (CAMFiC) and led by Antoni Sisó, shows that AI has become a regular support in tasks such as medical literature research, text drafting, or clinical session preparation.

The company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, has presented ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser powered by artificial intelligence. Atlas integrates ChatGPT's usual chat function, but also allows the AI to control the cursor, automatically executing actions such as booking flights, filling out forms, or editing documents directly from the web. This new move is seen as an attempt by OpenAI to compete with Google's Chrome browser, which has led the market for years. For now, ChatGPT Atlas is only available for Apple computers, so Windows users will have to wait.

Consultant, confidant, friend, psychologist... and now also a lover? Artificial intelligence is expanding its scope, and OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, is the first to openly enter the realm of explicit sexuality. As confirmed, starting in December it will allow the generation of erotic content. To use this feature, users will have to verify that they are over 18 years old. The new version allows users to change the chat personality to make it more like an adult. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says he wants to "treat adult users like adults," as he mentions on the X platform (formerly Twitter). They are also developing technology that can estimate a user's age based on their interactions.

OpenAI announced last Monday at its DevDay conference for developers that ChatGPT will become a universal platform for interacting with third-party services, from Spotify to Zillow. The official message: a revolution that will turn the popular chatbot into "something more like an operating system," in the words of Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT. The reality: a desperate flight forward by a company that lost $5 billion in 2024 and spends $2.25 for every dollar it earns.

For days now, I've noticed the air is a little fresher at dusk. It's not yet autumn, but the light isn't the same. The colors are beginning to lose their summery violence and take on a kind of anticipated melancholy. I like this moment, although this year I can't help but feel a twinge of anguish. September has always been, for me, a month of beginnings and endings, a month in which life seems to take stock of what has happened and what might yet happen. But now, with the world as it is, every beginning seems threatened by a larger, more definitive end.

Layla has been planning trips since 2024. To talk, you don't need to visit an agency, make a phone call, or observe any time restrictions: any device with an internet connection is sufficient to reach her. Layla presents herself with the self-confidence characteristic of job interviews: "Talking to me takes the stress out of planning trips," "talking to me is like having your own travel guru without the high price." But Layla isn't just any worker: she's an artificial intelligence (AI).

Just a few days ago, Amazon announced plans to build a gigantic data center in the state of Indiana, United States. This computing center will be dedicated to training artificial intelligence systems with the goal of simulating the human brain. The electricity bill will be expensive, as this complex will consume approximately 2.2 gigawatts of electricity—enough to power an entire city.

In recent months, something has changed in the way we read without us even realizing it. And I say "read" and not "search for information on the internet" because I don't know a single writer or artist, even those in their seventies surrounded by a venerably analog aura, who doesn't log on to the internet every day to see how the world is doing. And it turns out the world is increasingly empty of people and more filled with stochastic parrots. "Stochastic parrot" is the nickname we use to try to diminish the authority and propaganda that dominates the great language models of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT: "parrot" because they regurgitate the work of others and are only capable of repeating what someone has already said; "stochastic" because the mechanism that makes these models guilty of what these things are is not a process of logical reasoning, but one of chance artificially introduced into the choice of words. But, although this robotic parrotism is perfectly familiar to us and we instinctively despise it, we use it. For a few months now, newspaper traffic has been plummeting because we're asking ChatGPT for things we used to ask publications written by human writers. There's a bubble of inhuman readings that we should burst.

This spring, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, delivered a sermon against advertising from the presbytery of Harvard's Memorial Church: "I'll reveal a bias of mine: I hate ads." He said that ads "mostly cause the company providing the service to be out of alignment with the incentives of users," adding that he found the idea of mixing advertising with artificial intelligence "particularly disturbing."

Have you tried? ChatGPT: You've asked him what he knows about you, if Catalonia will ever be independent, if machines will end up dominating the world, and you've even generated some images. And it's entertaining, but that's it, you think. You're not in marketing, you don't have a website to fill with automatically generated content, and you're not a criminal planning a massive scam. And you wonder if this artificial intelligence trend is of any use in real life. Well, yes, it can be useful. It has many possibilities, many more than I'm able to take advantage of, but I'll tell you what I use it for in my day-to-day life, in which it helps me.

Since its popularization in the late 1990s, the internet has established itself as the primary means of digital communication. With the emergence of artificial intelligence in recent years, however, the internet has undergone a paradigm shift, offering users a wide range of new features: from new ways to search for information to personalized shopping. However, these new tools entail a series of risks that must be taken into account in order to browse safely.

Teachers are pondering what to do in the face of the emergence of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and other devices that have quickly become a kind of phantom arm for students who are increasingly distracted and inattentive, unable to grasp a single stimulus. A simple explanation or a written paragraph-length instruction becomes difficult to assimilate. The impact on attention span and concentration is very evident. Sometimes I think we should conduct memory workshops, like those offered by people suffering from Alzheimer's when they attend day centers. It's astonishing and worrying. The mechanisms for acquiring knowledge and the way we learn have changed to such extremes that it's hard to identify. Keeping the electronic device open while things are happening in the classroom (debates, presentations, collaborative work) has become an automatic habit, without which we seem to lose our bearings. ChatGPT has become a teaching assistant: it explains what they haven't understood in class with the synchronous teacher. It also helps with completing assignments. It replaces reading an article with a summary of the main ideas. Proposes developing topics, prepares presentations.

Seven years ago, economist Xavier Sala Martín met professor and writer Yuval Noah Harari in Davos, who painted a picture of a catastrophic future due to artificial intelligence. "At the time, I didn't know much about AI, so I decided to study it," says Sala i Martín. He spent seven years there, and the result is the nearly 1,000 pages ofBetween paradise and the apocalypse (Rosa dels Vents) provides a comprehensive historical overview of this technology, explaining what it is, what it isn't, and the risks for the future.

"I don't know how to tell you, the feeling is quite discouraging," admits Antoni Espinosa, Vice-Rector for Digital Policies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). "When you read the third report produced with artificial intelligence (AI), you see that they are just as poor and homogeneous, and that they are not characterized by high quality," he laments.

A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk has offered $97.4 billion to buy the non-profit organization that controls the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, the American newspaper reported on Monday. The Wall Street Journal.