Google DeepMind leaders share Nobel Prize in chemistry for protein prediction AI
In a second Nobel win for AI, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded half the 2024 prize in chemistry to Demis Hassabis, the cofounder and CEO of Google...
SBF’s FTX lieutenant Ryan Salame adds prison stint to LinkedIn resume
FTX cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried’s top lieutenant made fun of the hard time he’s about to serve with a light-hearted post on LinkedIn. Ryan Salame, who formerly served as co-CEO...
The AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research
Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this...
Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
A recent award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) brings together researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh University (Lehigh) under...
Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping
Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content...
Roblox shares slide after Hindenburg says platform ‘lying to investors’
Hindenburg Research disclosed a short position in Roblox on Tuesday, alleging that the gaming platform popular among young children inflated metrics including user numbers and engagement. Roblox shares fell as much as 9%...
The Roli Airwave Is Both an AI Piano Teacher and a Digital Theremin
“I was hitting a wall with Lumi,” Lamb says. “It’s great to learn, but we found that people just weren’t progressing enough.” Lamb envisions the Airwave as being a much...
Modeling relationships to solve complex problems efficiently
The German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche once said that “invisible threads are the strongest ties.” One could think of “invisible threads” as tying together related objects, like the homes on a...
People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing
“All right, so today we are going to dive deep into some cutting-edge tech,” a chatty American male voice says. But this voice does not belong to a human. It...
Blindfolded ‘Super Mario 64’ player sets a new record
The “Super Mario 64” community is in disbelief after a new record was set. Bubzia, a “Super Mario 64” speedrunner, did the game’s 16-star challenge in under 20 minutes —...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Out of Its Box—and Onto a Canvas
Although both writing and coding modes give the choice of requesting in-line edits, the bifurcated user interface for canvas is designed with one additional set of shortcuts for those focused...
Q&A: A new initiative to help strengthen democracy
In the United States and around the world, democracy is under threat. Anti-democratic attitudes have become more prevalent, partisan polarization is growing, misinformation is omnipresent, and politicians and citizens sometimes...
AI-generated images can teach robots how to act
Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from highlighting their own inherent bias to preserving precious memories. Now,...
MIT economist says AI can only handle 5% of jobs, fears stock crash
The much-hyped AI takeover of the US job market is likely overblown – and it could hurt the bottom lines of overzealous companies that have invested billions into the technology,...
Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit
You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without permission, harbor...
