AI Algorithms Are Biased Against Skin With Yellow Hues
On skin color, Xiang says the efforts to develop additional and improved measures will be unending. “We need to keep on trying to make progress,” she says. Monk says different...
Why Big Tech’s bet on AI assistants is so risky
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Since the beginning of the generative...
AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers
Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the University of Maryland computer science professor is blunt when he sums up the current state of watermarking AI images. “We don’t...
Here is the real reason why you shouldn’t use your phone on the toilet
Hold the phone — or don’t, actually. Taking your cell phone into the bathroom to entertain yourself on the toilet may not be such a good idea, according to a...
AI Van Gogh talks suicide, struggles with visitors to Paris museum
Lend him an ear. The post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh provides posthumous insight into his life and work as part of a new exhibit that draws on advanced, generative artificial...
San Francisco tech workers rent $700-a-month ‘sleeping pods’
Tech workers in the San Francisco Bay Area who can’t afford soaring rents have instead opted to stay in $700-a-month “sleeping pods” — 4-foot-tall, semi-open boxes that can fit a...
Google default search engine deals make user choice ‘completely bogus,’ Microsoft CEO Nadella says
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday that Google’s multibillion-dollar default search engine deals have played a key role in obtaining a dominant hold on the market – backing one of...
Elon Musk’s X hit with trademark lawsuit from marketing agency
X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, was sued in federal court in Florida on Monday by a legal-marketing company that claims the social media giant’s new name infringes its trademark...
Church uses ChatGPT AI for ‘meaningful’ Sunday morning worship
Need to teach the holy trinity? Just use ChatGPT. A Methodist church in North Austin, Texas turned to such technology as an “unorthodox” way to teach the good book along...
