Month: August 2024

Aug 11 2024

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OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode

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In late July, OpenAI began rolling out an eerily humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. In a safety analysis released today, the company acknowledges that this anthropomorphic voice may lure some...

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Aug 11 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Dimitris Bertsimas named vice provost for open learning

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Dimitris Bertsimas PhD ’88 has been appointed vice provost for open learning at MIT, effective Sept. 1. In this role, Bertsimas, who is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor...

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Aug 09 2024

AI NEWS

Google DeepMind trained a robot to beat humans at table tennis

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Do you fancy your chances of beating a robot at a game of table tennis? Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play the game at the equivalent of amateur-level...

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Aug 09 2024

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Wedding giant The Knot Worldwide cuts 4% of workforce in restructuring

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The Knot Worldwide slashed about 4% of its global workforce this week as part of an internal restructuring at the wedding planning giant, The Post has learned. Approximately 100 employees...

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Aug 08 2024

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Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

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Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an email account—can gain access to sensitive information, such as people’s...

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Aug 08 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar environments

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The phrase “practice makes perfect” is usually reserved for humans, but it’s also a great maxim for robots newly deployed in unfamiliar environments. Picture a robot arriving in a warehouse....

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Aug 06 2024

AI NEWS

Google is finally taking action to curb non-consensual deepfakes

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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It’s the Taylor Swifts of the...

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Aug 06 2024

Technology

Elon Musk’s X to reportedly shutter San Francisco office

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Elon Musk reportedly plans to ditch X’s San Francisco office — weeks after announcing he will move the social media company’s headquarters to Texas in his clash with California Gov....

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Aug 06 2024

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Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs

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Starting Monday, Zoom users will have the option to open a document tool from within their video calling app and create sharable files based on their meetings—but they’ll also be...

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