‘We can achieve great things’
We might be welcoming our robot overlords in the near future. As if artificial intelligence wasn’t taking enough jobs of late, now AI is suggesting they could potentially be president....
Modular visual question answering via code generation
Posted by Sanjay Subramanian, PhD student, UC Berkeley, and Arsha Nagrani, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team Visual question answering (VQA) is a machine learning task that requires a model...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads backtracks ‘censoring’ Donald Trump Jr.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new “Twitter killer” app Threads quickly found itself embroiled in a censorship controversy after warning users that Donald Trump Jr. may be a source of misinformation...
AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool
Within weeks of ChatGPT’s launch, there were fears that students would be using the chatbot to spin up passable essays in seconds. In response to those fears, startups started making...
Elon Musk’s $1B NY solar panel factory a taxpayer nightmare
New York state has spent nearly $1 billion since 2014 building what Elon Musk envisioned as the largest solar panel factory in the Western Hemisphere — but the deal is...
ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
While some workers may shun AI, the temptation to use it is very real for others. The field can be “dog-eat-dog,” Bob says, making labor-saving tools attractive. To find the...
What is Threads on Instagram? All about Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter alternative
Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram unveiled its new text-based social media app Threads to widespread fanfare on Wednesday evening, escalating a high-stakes clash with billionaire rival Elon Musk and struggling Twitter. More...
How ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ De-Aged Harrison Ford
Near the end of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Nazis attempt to pull off one of the oldest tropes in entertainment: using the movie’s titular dial, the Antikythera,...
Meta’s Threads is a serious threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, analysts say
Meta’s Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its...
Vegas lights up with the world’s largest video screen from MSG
It brings new meaning to the term “sphere of influence.” MSG’s soon-to-open immersive concert venue in Las Vegas kicked off Independence Day with a major bang, transforming the Las Vegas...
Learning the language of molecules to predict their properties
Discovering new materials and drugs typically involves a manual, trial-and-error process that can take decades and cost millions of dollars. To streamline this process, scientists often use machine learning to...
Mark Zuckerberg shields daughters’ faces in Instagram post
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a Fourth of July family photo on Instagram with wife Priscilla Chan and their three young daughters — but stirred outrage for concealing two of...
Hollywood is terrified of AI stealing their jobs, study shows
As Hollywood anxiously awaits the outcome of the writer’s strike, showbiz insiders now have something else to worry about — AI taking over jobs. In an exclusive survey published today...
Twitter threatens Meta suit over alleged Threads stealing
Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, Semafor reported Thursday, citing a letter sent to the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro. Meta which launched Threads...
MIT scientists build a system that can generate AI models for biology research
Is it possible to build machine-learning models without machine-learning expertise? Jim Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT and the...
