Some 30,000 Amazon employees could spy on Alexa users: FTC
Amazon has paid $25 million to settle federal allegations that tens of thousands of its employees had access to Alexa users’ voice recordings picked up by the smart device’s speakers....
Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film.
The Frost nails its uncanny, disconcerting vibe in its first few shots. Vast icy mountains, a makeshift camp of military-style tents, a group of people huddled around a fire, barking...
Male guards at Elizabeth Holmes’ prison leered at women inmates in shower: ex-prisoner
The women’s-only Texas prison that disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will call home for the next decade used male guards to conduct “shower checks” and has faced a half-dozen sexual...
Elon Musk accused of insider trading by dogecoin investors
Elon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action by investors accusing the Tesla CEO of manipulating the cryptocurrency dogecoin, costing them billions of dollars. In a Wednesday...
An Eating Disorder Chatbot Is Suspended for Giving Harmful Advice
Tessa is provided by the health tech company X2AI, now known as Cass, which was founded by entrepreneur Michiel Rauws and offers mental health counseling through texting. Rauws did not respond...
Retrieval-augmented visual-language pre-training
Posted by Ziniu Hu, Student Researcher, and Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team Large-scale models, such as T5, GPT-3, PaLM, Flamingo and PaLI, have demonstrated the ability to...
Mark Zuckerberg reveals $499 Meta Quest 3 VR headset in latest metaverse bet
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the company’s next mixed-reality headset, the Quest 3, in a Thursday morning Instagram post – setting up a looming clash with Apple as it prepares...
They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI
The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some colleagues to devise a...
Meta threatens to block news in Calif. over push to pay publishers
Facebook parent Meta threatened to remove all news content in California ahead of a key vote by state lawmakers Thursday on whether to advance a bill requiring Big Tech firms...
This AI Scouting Platform Puts Soccer Talent Spotters Everywhere
It was the biggest match of Andre Odeku’s career. A week earlier, the 18-year-old forward had been playing in the seventh tier of the English soccer pyramid. Now, he was...
Real child murder victims recreated by AI in sick deepfake trend
TikTokers have started a disturbing new trend of using generative artificial intelligence to depict grisly murders and other heinous true crimes committed against children. The resulting video clips — modified...
AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity (Yet)
The idea that machine intelligence will one day take over the world has long been a staple of science fiction. But given the rapid advances in consumer-level artificial intelligence tools,...
Driven to driverless
When Cindy Heredia was choosing an MBA program, she knew she wanted to be at the forefront of the autonomous driving industry. While doing research, she discovered that MIT had...
Large sequence models for software development activities
Posted by Petros Maniatis and Daniel Tarlow, Research Scientists, Google Software isn’t created in one dramatic step. It improves bit by bit, one little step at a time — editing,...
Elon Musk treated like rock star in China: ‘He’s a global idol’
Billionaire Elon Musk was showered with praise during a trip to China this week, with people on social media calling him “a pioneer,” “Brother Ma” and “a global idol” while the CEO of Tesla, Twitter,...
