Signs you need a new phone
You know by now your phone’s battery performance degrades the older it gets. That’s just how lithium-ion batteries work, unfortunately. With each charging cycle, they wear down a bit. Eventually, it becomes...
Google’s AI Boss Says Scale Only Gets You So Far
In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will take more than just chips. Source
‘Popcorn brain’ explained — how social media can ruin attention spans
This may seem corny — but if you are feeling overwhelmed by the non-stop pace of digital media and find yourself struggling to concentrate on a single task or thought,...
Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
His group decided to find out. They built the new, diversified version of AlphaZero, which includes multiple AI systems that trained independently and on a variety of situations. The algorithm...
This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything
A few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag that is several times smaller and significantly cheaper than the traditional radio frequency tags (RFIDs) that are often affixed...
Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled by an airline chatbot inaccurately explaining the airline’s bereavement travel...
OpenAI, Meta, tech giants sign effort to fight AI election interference
A group of 20 tech companies announced on Friday they have agreed to work together to prevent deceptive artificial-intelligence content from interfering with elections across the globe this year. The rapid growth of...
OpenAI’s software Sora generates video in response to text queries
OpenAI unveiled revolutionary new software that can produce high-caliber video in response to a few simple text queries — a dazzling breakthrough from the ChatGPT maker that could also take...
Sierra Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites
I might have inadvertently insulted Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor when I interviewed them about their new AI startup last week. Their new company, Sierra, is developing AI-powered agents to...
Older people are using emojis wrong, study says
Grandma, did you mean to send that eggplant emoji? A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Nottingham found that older people tended to misuse emojis — such...
OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos
We already know that OpenAI’s chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school. Now, just in time for the Oscars, a new OpenAI app called Sora hopes...
OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora
OpenAI has built a striking new generative video model called Sora that can take a short text description and turn it into a detailed, high-definition film clip up to a...
I’ve gotten 100 free McDonald’s meals — thanks to this ChatGPT hack
ChatGPT can do virtually anything — including getting you unlimited free McDonald’s meals. A so-called “millionaire” businessman bragged on a podcast that he’s used ChatGPT to scam McDonald’s into giving...
Some People Actually Kind of Love Deepfakes
A month ago, the consulting company Accenture presented a potential client an unusual and attention-grabbing pitch for a new project. Instead of the usual slide deck, the client saw deepfakes...
Responsible technology use in the AI age
The sudden appearance of application-ready generative AI tools over the last year has confronted us with challenging social and ethical questions. Visions of how this technology could deeply alter the...
