To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test
There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence. Chances are you’re familiar with...
Advances in document understanding
Posted by Sandeep Tata, Software Engineer, Google Research, Athena Team The last few years have seen rapid progress in systems that can automatically process complex business documents and turn them...
Outlaw AI chatbots make cybercrime easier and more frequent
ChatGPT might be known to plagiarize an essay, but its rogue counterparts are doing quite worse. Duplicate chatbots with criminal capabilities are surfacing on the dark web and — much...
Roblox shares plummet after online gaming platform misses quarterly projections
Online gaming platform Roblox missed estimates for second-quarter bookings on Wednesday as waning demand for its online games and intensifying competition hurt growth, sending its shares down nearly 20%. Shares...
AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine | WIRED
James Field, founder and CEO of LabGenius. Photograph: LabGenius The tests are almost fully automated, with an array of high-end equipment involved in preparing samples and running them through the...
Why watermarking AI-generated content won’t guarantee trust online
In late May, the Pentagon appeared to be on fire. A few miles away, White House aides and reporters scrambled to figure out whether a viral online image of the...
Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI)
Gideon: I hear you navigating a kind of, I guess, a broad political space. I hear you talking like someone who is part of both left and right political groupings....
This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them? | WIRED
Synthesia hasn’t always been considered at the sharp end of the generative AI industry. For six years, Riparbelli and his cofounders labored outside the spotlight in pursuit of their mission...
Elon Musk’s illegal flashing X sign at HQ leads to $4,500 fines: report
Elon Musk’s publicity stunt to put a strobe-lit giant “X” atop the headquarters housing his rebranded social media company has cost the building’s landlord nearly $4,500, according to a report....
AdaTape: Foundation model with adaptive computation and dynamic read-and-write
Posted by Fuzhao Xue, Research Intern, and Mostafa Dehghani, Research Scientist, Google Adaptive computation refers to the ability of a machine learning system to adjust its behavior in response to...
Tesla selling Cybertruck cat beds made of cardboard in China
Elon Musk’s Tesla is selling a bizarre Cybertruck-themed cat bed made entirely of cardboard to its customers in China, marking the latest weird product release from the electric vehicle maker....
Threads allows users to see liked posts in latest update as interest dwindles
Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads is rolling out more new features, including the ability for users to review posts they’ve liked, as it looks to reverse a major exodus of users since...
Elon Musk wooed Grimes with high-speed Autopilot ride: new tell-all
Elon Musk took Grimes on a wild ride while courting the Canadian singer that included driving hands-free with his eyes closed to show off his Tesla’s Autopilot feature, according to...
Elon Musk says he ‘may require surgery’ as Zuckerberg ‘cage match’
Oh, my back! X owner Elon Musk warned that he “may require surgery” to fix an old sumo wrestling injury — putting his possible “cage match” with Meta boss Mark...
Cosmic question mark discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant cosmic question mark in space that has baffled scientists. The team operating the telescope at the European Space Agency released an...
