New method uses crowdsourced feedback to help train robots
To teach an AI agent a new task, like how to open a kitchen cabinet, researchers often use reinforcement learning — a trial-and-error process where the agent is rewarded for...
Finding value in generative AI for financial services
With tools such as ChatGPT, DALLE-2, and CodeStarter, generative AI has captured the public imagination in 2023. Unlike past technologies that have come and gone—think metaverse—this latest one looks set...
Nicolas Cage on Memes, Myths, and Why He Thinks AI Is a ‘Nightmare’
Nicolas Cage knows he’s a meme. He’s not happy about it. After making the mistake of googling himself a few years back, the charismatic actor discovered that his big on-screen...
What does Gen Z slang word ‘gyatt’ mean?
Gyatt outta town. Gen Zers, those adorable digital natives born between the years of 1997 and 2012, have rather famously given themselves a dictionary’s worth of new slang, mixing acronyms,...
Elon Musk’s X may lose up to $75M by year-end on advertiser exodus: report
Elon Musk-owned social media company X could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of major brands pause their marketing...
Ex-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao urges judge to allow him to leave US
Lawyers for former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao are urging a US judge to reject the Justice Department’s request to bar him from returning to his home in the United Arab Emirates until he is...
Search algorithm reveals nearly 200 new kinds of CRISPR systems
Microbial sequence databases contain a wealth of information about enzymes and other molecules that could be adapted for biotechnology. But these databases have grown so large in recent years that...
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster: sources
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could...
Sam Altman’s Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
Open AI’s new boss is the same as the old boss. But the company—and the artificial intelligence industry—may have been profoundly changed by the past five days of high-stakes soap...
