Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is one of the hottest topics in tech today. It’s also one of the most controversial. A big part of the problem is that few...
YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators
TikTok’s tools for adding music to short videos helped turn short-form video into a phenomenon. Now Google is giving some YouTube Shorts creators an AI feature called Dream Track that...
Parental Advisory: This Chatbot May Talk to Your Child About Sex and Alcohol
The highest ratings went to AI services for education like Ello, which uses speech recognition to act as a reading tutor, and Khan Academy’s chatbot helper Khanmigo for students, which...
Technique enables AI on edge devices to keep learning over time
Personalized deep-learning models can enable artificial intelligence chatbots that adapt to understand a user’s accent or smart keyboards that continuously update to better predict the next word based on someone’s...
YouTube requiring disclosure of AI-generated content, adding labels
YouTube is adding new rules surrounding content generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence, including labeling requirements. The Google-owned video platform announced Tuesday in a blog post that it will be rolling out a...
Rupert Murdoch says News Corp focused on AI’s ‘opportunities and challenges’
Rupert Murdoch said News Corp is “absolutely focused” on “both the opportunities and the challenges” posed by the rise of advanced artificial intelligence tools. At News Corp’s annual shareholder meeting...
Nepal bans TikTok over threat to ‘social cohesion’
Nepal has decided to ban TikTok, claiming that the app was threatening social order. The country’s communications and information technology minister, Rekha Sharma, told the BBC Nepali that TikTok spread...
This 3D printer can watch itself fabricate objects
With 3D inkjet printing systems, engineers can fabricate hybrid structures that have soft and rigid components, like robotic grippers that are strong enough to grasp heavy objects but soft enough...
Behind Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s push to get AI tools in developers’ hands
In San Francisco last week, everyone’s favorite surprise visitor was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. At OpenAI’s DevDay—the company’s first-ever event for developers building on its platform—Nadella bounded on stage to...
Tesla allowed to ban factory workers from wearing union T-shirts: court
Elon Musk’s Tesla did not violate US labor law by prohibiting workers at its flagship Fremont, Calif., assembly plant from wearing pro-union T-shirts, a federal appeals court has ruled. The...
Underage Workers Are Training AI
Appen declined to give an attributable comment. “If we suspect a user has violated the User Agreement, Toloka will perform an identity check and request a photo ID and a...
Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies
For all of the challenges presented by volunteer online communities, the reality is that they exist in a vacuum left by the authorities. In 2021, 106,699 Americans died of an...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai grilled during Google Play trial
Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the witness stand on Tuesday in the search giant’s antitrust trial versus “Fortnite” maker Epic Games — and immediately faced aggressive grilling over the tech...
Google Maps is getting an AI makeover — 5 new features to try
Which way to the future? Google Maps is revving up for the rollout of significant, artificial intelligence-fueled improvements in the weeks and months to come. Already popping up for some...
Google unveils GraphCast, ‘unprecedented’ AI weather forecaster
The forecast is looking good for this new weather program. Google DeepMind, the search engine’s AI-focused lab, has introduced a game-changing weather forecasting model that is said to deliver 10-day...
