Robots say they won’t steal jobs, rebel against humans
Robots presented at an AI forum in Switzerland on Friday said they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems — and vowed not steal humans’ jobs or...
Elon Musk’s Tesla offers referral incentives amid EV price
Electric-vehicle maker Tesla rolled out a new program globally allowing buyers to earn extra incentives through referrals from existing customers, a strategy long used by traditional automakers to boost sales. The incentive,...
Apple to require appointment to buy Vision Pro VR headset
Apple will gradually introduce its $3,500-apiece Vision Pro virtual reality headsets as part of a slow, piecemeal rollout that will require customers to make in-person appointments at the tech giant’s...
Mark Zuckerberg spends on security and ‘defund police’ groups
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t practice what he preaches when it comes to public safety. The tech tycoon’s company has spent more than $40 million on Zuckerberg’s personal security over...
‘We can achieve great things’
We might be welcoming our robot overlords in the near future. As if artificial intelligence wasn’t taking enough jobs of late, now AI is suggesting they could potentially be president....
Modular visual question answering via code generation
Posted by Sanjay Subramanian, PhD student, UC Berkeley, and Arsha Nagrani, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team Visual question answering (VQA) is a machine learning task that requires a model...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads backtracks ‘censoring’ Donald Trump Jr.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new “Twitter killer” app Threads quickly found itself embroiled in a censorship controversy after warning users that Donald Trump Jr. may be a source of misinformation...
AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool
Within weeks of ChatGPT’s launch, there were fears that students would be using the chatbot to spin up passable essays in seconds. In response to those fears, startups started making...
Elon Musk’s $1B NY solar panel factory a taxpayer nightmare
New York state has spent nearly $1 billion since 2014 building what Elon Musk envisioned as the largest solar panel factory in the Western Hemisphere — but the deal is...
