Re-imagining the opera of the future
In the mid-1980s, composer Tod Machover came across a copy of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel “VALIS” in a Parisian bookstore. Based on a mystical vision Dick called his...
Elon Musk on Philadelphia looting: ‘America going full Joker’
Elon Musk said that the images of young looters ransacking retail shops in Philadelphia were a sign that “America is going full Joker.” The Tesla mogul reacted to an amateur...
Hollywood Writers Reached an AI Deal That Will Rewrite History
The deal is not without its quandaries. Enforcement is an overriding one, says Daniel Gervais, a professor of intellectual property and AI law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Figuring...
Elon Musk on whether Biden administration ‘has it in’ for him
Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks the Biden administration is pursuing multiple investigations into his companies because it may “have it in” for the mogul, who has been critical of the...
Immersive Tech Obscures Reality. AI Will Threaten It
Last week, Amazon announced it was integrating AI into a number of products—including smart glasses, smart home systems, and its voice assistant, Alexa—that help users navigate the world. This week,...
From physics to generative AI: An AI model for advanced pattern generation
Generative AI, which is currently riding a crest of popular discourse, promises a world where the simple transforms into the complex — where a simple distribution evolves into intricate patterns...
AI Hurricane Predictions Are Storming the World of Weather Forecasting
This did not look guaranteed to work, says Matthew Chantry, machine-learning coordinator at the ECWMF, who is spending this storm season evaluating their performance. The algorithms underpinning ChatGPT were trained...
Apple’s Eddy Cue defends Google default search deal
Longtime Apple executive Eddy Cue defended the company’s deal to keep Google as the default search engine on its smartphones and browsers during his closely watched testimony at the Big...
Overheating, bends and changes color
Apple’s new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are hot property — quite literally. Users who’ve bought the flashy new smartphones say they become unbearably hot after just a few...
Amazon sued by FTC for ‘inflating online prices, overcharging sellers’
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday — the latest government attempt at breaking Big Tech’s dominance of the internet....
What’s changed since the “pause AI” letter six months ago?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Friday marked six months since...
This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark
Nearly 1,500 US police departments operate drones but only about a dozen routinely dispatch them in response to 911 calls, according to ACLU research. Drone maker Skydio aims to see...
What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
But then, as statecraft in the real world came to favor game theory over traditional diplomacy, the metagame likewise shifted. Online players were no longer calling one another into solaria...
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet only 5 percent of the...
Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool
Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI...
