If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz, with some predicting it will lead to an idyllic utopia and others warning it will bring the end...
Speed is all you need: On-device acceleration of large diffusion models via GPU-aware optimizations
Posted by Juhyun Lee and Raman Sarokin, Software Engineers, Core Systems & Experiences The proliferation of large diffusion models for image generation has led to a significant increase in model...
Apple, Meta VR headsets will ruin society, Jack Dorsey fears
Social media pioneer Jack Dorsey fears mixed-reality headsets such as the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3 will turn Americans into socially-distant couch potatoes. The Twitter co-founder said...
Novo Nordisk to support MIT postdocs working at the intersection of AI and life sciences
MIT’s School of Engineering and global health care company Novo Nordisk has announced the launch of a multi-year program to support postdoctoral fellows conducting research at the intersection of artificial...
Google warns staff of spilling secrets to Bard in ChatGPT race
Alphabet is cautioning employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard, at the same time as it markets the program around the world, four people familiar with the...
Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently said that China should play a key role in shaping the guardrails that are placed around the technology. “China has some of the best AI...
Twitter getting kicked out of Colorado office after reportedly not paying rent
Twitter is reportedly being evicted from its office in Boulder, Colo., after not paying rent the past two months. Last month, Twitter’s landlord filed a complaint against its Elon Musk-headed...
Inside NYC’s Maxwell Social club, where members pay $12K to drink their own booze and cook dinner
Maxwell Social is a new members-only club in Tribeca that costs as much as $12,000 to join – but instead of white-glove service, members can expect to cook their own...
Deepfake celebrity porn floods Twitter — despite explicit bans
X-rated celebrity deepfakes are in heavy circulation online, as artificial intelligence and advanced technology blur the lines between real images and doctored content. Despite Twitter’s policies against misleading media and...
Music publishers sue Twitter for $250M for allowing copyrighted songs
A group of 17 music publishers sued Twitter in Nashville, Tenn., federal court on Wednesday, accusing the company of enabling thousands of copyright violations by allowing users to post music without a...
AI users are making pornographic deepfakes to sextort teens
Following the the tragic news that a teenage football player from Michigan committed suicide after allegedly falling victim to online predators, cybersecurity experts are warning teens and parents of the...
David Autor named NOMIS 2023 Distinguished Scientist
David H. Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, has been recognized as one of two 2023 NOMIS Distinguished Scientists for his significant contributions and ongoing research work to understand...
Google workers reportedly in uproar over RTO crackdown
Fed-up Google employees are reportedly venting their frustrations about the company’s plan to strictly enforce its return-to-office requirements — a crackdown that includes tracking employee badge swipes. Google’s internal forum...
Reconstructing indoor spaces with NeRF
Marcos Seefelder, Software Engineer, and Daniel Duckworth, Research Software Engineer, Google Research When choosing a venue, we often find ourselves with questions like the following: Does this restaurant have the...
AI to cause profound job shakeup for ‘higher-wage knowledge workers’
White-collar “knowledge workers” are likely to suffer a profound career shakeup in the coming years as generative AI tools such as ChatGPT transform the global economy, according to an analysis...
