The world’s first braiding of non-Abelian anyons
Posted by Trond Andersen and Yuri Lensky, Research Scientists, Google Quantum AI Team Imagine you’re shown two identical objects and then asked to close your eyes. When you open your...
Elon Musk says he’s ‘up for a cage match’ with jiu-jitsu-trained Mark Zuckerberg
Twitter owner Elon Musk said he is ready to throw down with Meta boss and noted martial arts enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg. Musk, 51, challenged the 39-year-old Facebook founder – who...
Elon Musk says terms like ‘cisgender’ are considered ‘slurs’ on Twitter
Elon Musk condemned the words “cis” and “cisgender” as “slurs” on Twitter after a user complained about receiving harassing messages from “trans activists” calling him “cissy.” “The words ‘cis’ or...
China’s ChatGPT Opportunists—and Grifters—Are Hard at Work | WIRED
Competition for jobs is fierce in China right now. After he graduated from college with a business major earlier this year, David struggled to find work. There were too many...
AI finds conservative women more attractive, happier in photos
Conservative female politicians tend to appear happier and more attractive in pictures than liberal politicos, a new artificial intelligence study conducted in Denmark found. Published in the Nature-owned journal Scientific...
Elon Musk mocks Biden’s plan for billionaire tax
Billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Biden’s latest call for more taxes on the richest Americans on Tuesday — arguing the Democratic leader wouldn’t risk upsetting deep-pocketed campaign backers. Biden drew...
Gannett sues Google over ‘scheme’ to gain online ad monopoly
USA Today parent Gannett sued Google on Tuesday, alleging the tech giant has used anticompetitive business practices to gain an illegal monopoly over the digital advertising market. Gannett, the largest...
'Midjourney Magazine' Is Here—and It’s Soulless
Filled almost entirely with AI-generated images, this magazine embodies the threat artificial intelligence poses to journalism. Source
Nets owner Joe Tsai named Alibaba’s new chairman
Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai, the billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Net, will take over as chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant, the company said Tuesday. Tsai, a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire with...
Scaling MLOps for the enterprise with multi-tenant systems
Multi-tenant systems are invaluable for modern, fast-paced businesses. These systems allow multiple users and teams to access and use them at the same time. Machine learning operations (MLOps) teams, in...
Better Government Tech Is Possible
Now with the explosion of interest in artificial intelligence, Congress is turning its attention to ensuring that those who work in government learn more about the technology. US senators Gary...
How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
When wired heard that Christopher Nolan and his producer—and wife—Emma Thomas were coming out with a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we were perplexed. At least for a moment. It...
Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”
It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause...
You can ask AI Jesus about ‘the birds and the bees’ and other ‘wild questions’
A chatbot “version” of Jesus Christ called “Ask_Jesus” is streaming on the gaming platform Twitch — and it stands ready to answer questions from humans on anything from morality issues to the...
Judge to decide if US gov wrongly censored social media users
A federal judge will decide whether President Joe Biden’s administration violated the First Amendment by censoring users on social media over topics like COVID and election security — and if...
