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Dire warnings from leaders in the area of AI technology continue to be voiced around the world. The latest comes from Jaan Tallinn, who founded two organizations, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of...
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Twenty-eight years ago, Microsoft was faced with the rapid expansion and commercialization of the Internet. Then-CEO Bill Gates saw this change coming and sent out an internal memo calling this phenomenon “The Internet Tidal Wave.” Now...
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My AI launched a few months ago as Snapchat's new AI-powered chatbot. The company says that over 150 million people have sent over 10 billion messages to My AI, making it one of the most used consumer chatbots available. However, the...
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Google Search is being rolled out with new generative AI capabilities that will help people better understand, digest and make sense of information on the web. The update comes just months after Google launched its generative AI-powered...
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NVIDIA Research has built and released an open-source AI model that can reconstruct 2D videos into detailed 3D structures, complete with intricate details and textures. Creators can then take these 3D objects and inject them into various...
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For years now as a software developer, if you're stuck on a hard problem and you want to ask a stranger for help, the place to go has been a website called Stack Overflow. There's so much helpful content on there, and so much of it is...
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In the midst of an ongoing strike in Hollywood, Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be utilized in the entertainment industry. Along with actors and writers taking to picket lines, the Pope also...
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If you've never played a pen & paper role-playing game, you may not be aware that these games typically aren't distributed as boxed sets like board games. Instead, you typically purchase one or two "core" books with the main rules, and...
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Google is improving its generative AI-powered Search experience (SGE) by adding videos to image and text results. The company says it wants to help users make better sense of a sea of content by providing faster and easier ways to find...
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Lenovo has a new gaming laptop on the horizon with some features that are a first for its Legion line. Chief among them is form factor—the Legion Slim 5 (14", Gen 8) is the first-ever Legion gaming laptop to feature a 14-inch class...
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A couple of years ago, voice assistants were all the rage—Google, Apple, and Amazon all have their own personified virtual helpers, though most have scaled back spending on these systems. Now, generative AI is all the rage, and Google says...
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Shares of AMD rose in after-market trading hours last night and are down slightly this morning this morning after the chip designer posted better-than-expected financial results for the second quarter of 2023, including $5.36 billion in...
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The generative AI genie is out of the bottle and not going back any time soon. These developments are transforming the ways companies do business, but those who choose to implement it are faced with significant decisions to be made. For...
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A new study involving Google's DeepMind Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2) vision-language-action (VLA) model shows promising results in building a general-purpose physical robot that can reason, problem-solve, and interpret information in order...
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Forget about shrinking PC shipments, tough economic conditions, and every other challenge that technology companies face. The industry is in the early stages of an artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush, and partially for that reason...
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Elon Musk has shown off the new branding logo for the upcoming move from Twitter to Musk's self-proclaimed "everything app," X. While Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino praised employees and said the company was "moving at the speed of light" in...
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The argument is being made that artificial intelligence will create more jobs in the video game industry, as well as more games, and free up game devs to be more creative. However, the counter-argument is still prevalent, in that AI will...
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Google is reportedly working on a 'helpmate' for journalists that some believe is more of a replacement. The new AI technology was recently demonstrated to executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and News Corp, who own The...
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Intel Capital has made a $9 million equity investment into Figure, an AI Robotics company building general-purpose humanoid robots. Today's announcement follows the Figure 01 robot taking its first steps, among other technical...
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Hollywood actors have gone on strike in the face of being replaced by AI-generated digital likenesses of themselves, ultimately replacing them altogether in the future. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers defends its...
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The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into OpenAI in regard to whether or not the Microsoft-backed company has engaged in unfair or deceptive privacy or data security practices. The FTC sent a letter to OpenAI, stating...
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The United Nations (UN) held a press conference with the intent of showcasing the future of artificial intelligence by allowing reporters to ask a group of AI robots questions. However, some of the answers from the nine robots on the panel...
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