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...
A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer a cell into a new state. The technique holds great promise in immunotherapy, for instance, where researchers could...
Elon Musk’s Tesla misses delivery estimates amid production delays
Elon Musk’s Tesla missed market estimates for third-quarter deliveries on Monday as planned upgrades at its factories forced production halts. The electric-vehicle maker handed over 435,059 vehicles in the three months to Sept....
Is AI in the eye of the beholder?
Someone’s prior beliefs about an artificial intelligence agent, like a chatbot, have a significant effect on their interactions with that agent and their perception of its trustworthiness, empathy, and effectiveness,...
Sam Bankman-Fried paid Tom Brady $55 million for a week of work: author
Tom Brady was paid $55 million for doing about a week’s worth of work total over a three-year period by disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, according to a bestselling author....
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
In her 2019 master’s thesis for the Naval Postgraduate School, Ana Lalley, police chief of Elgin, Illinois, wrote critically about her department’s experience with the software, which left officers unimpressed....
Tom Hanks warns of ‘AI version of me’ promoting dental plan
Don’t sully his name. Tom Hanks, 67, took to Instagram on Sunday to warn followers that he was not involved in a promotional video for a dental plan that he...
‘I would have heard it’
Gossip that top executives at bankrupt crypto giant FTX were enmeshed in a sex-fueled “polycule” is exaggerated at best, according to a former employee — who claims they instead spent...
How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location
With its most recent update, Google Bard can now sort through your trove of Google Docs, rediscover ancient Gmail messages, and search through every video on YouTube. Before experimenting too...
