Google’s New AI Tool Is About to Make Online Shopping Even Easier
It matched photos of of the models wearing shirts in two different poses and generated images of that shirt from other angles. Then it took images of the clothing from...
Leaked Amazon document lists 67 ways to take advantage of ChatGPT
Amazon workers suggested tapping ChatGPT to auto-generate software code and marketing materials as part of dozens of new ways for integrating AI into their workflow, according to a document leaked...
EU slaps Google with antitrust charges over ad tech policies
The European Union on Wednesday charged Google with an antitrust complaint over its advertising technology, known industry-wide as adtech. The European Commission — the EU’s executive arm — reached a...
ChatGPT Is Unoriginal—and Exactly What Humans Need
Consider a teenager, Jorge, who is caught possessing a large amount of marijuana by a school administrator and will be expelled if he’s reported to his parole officer. If the...
AI ‘deepfakes’ poised to wreak havoc on 2024 election: experts
An onslaught of high-quality, AI-generated political “deepfakes” has already begun ahead of the 2024 presidential election – and Big Tech firms aren’t prepared for the chaos, experts told The Post....
Intel agencies buying ‘sensitive and intimate’ data on US citizens
Government agencies including the FBI, DHS and NSA have their tentacles deep into US society and have amassed huge caches’ of “sensitive and intimate” data on citizens by “flouting the...
Why are kids assaulting teachers for taking their phones?
The year isn’t halfway over, and already 2023 has seen teachers punched in the face, pepper sprayed and even beaten unconscious for attempting to confiscate students’ phones and devices. Experts...
Defining the public interest in new technologies
How are waves of disruptive technologies, such as more advanced versions of artificial intelligence systems, changing the way we work, live, and play? Are there pathways that academics, practitioners, innovators,...
Enabling delightful user experiences via predictive models of human attention
Posted by Junfeng He, Senior Research Scientist, and Kai Kohlhoff, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research People have the remarkable ability to take in a tremendous amount of information (estimated to...
Chegg cuts 4% of staff over ChatGPT crushing business
Struggling online learning platform Chegg disclosed plans to cut about 4% of its workforce — weeks after the company’s CEO admitted that OpenAI’s ChatGPT was crushing its business as more...
We are all AI’s free data workers
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This week I’ve been thinking a lot...
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI
SATYA NADELLA: When we went from GPT 2.5 to 3, we all started seeing these emergent capabilities. It began showing scaling effects. We didn’t train it on just coding, but...
Musk says Unabomber ‘might not be wrong’ that tech is bad
Elon Musk said on Saturday that the Unabomber — despite his twisted, homicidal rampage that killed three people and injured two dozen more — “might not be wrong” in his...
Google’s ad-tech business facing possible threat of a break-up: report
European Union antitrust regulators may order Alphabet’s Google to sell a part of its advertising-technology business, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. Google’s dominance in online advertising...
48-hour Reddit user blackout kicks off, affecting 8K subreddits
As of Monday, nearly 8,000 subreddit forums are going dark for 48 hours in protest of Reddit’s new pricing policy. The new policy implements a paid model for Reddit’s third-party...
