As podcaster Ryan Zhao put it on Bluesky, “The design process has gone wrong when what you need to prototype is ‘what if there was a space.’” Gotta go fast When Google revealed the first version of Genie earlier this year, it also published a detailed research paper outlining the specific steps taken behind the […]
December 6, 2024 | AI, AI game design, AI gaming, Gaming, Google Genie | No comments
The warning extends beyond voice scams. The FBI announcement details how criminals also use AI models to generate convincing profile photos, identification documents, and chatbots embedded in fraudulent websites. These tools automate the creation of deceptive content while reducing previously obvious signs of humans behind the scams, like poor grammar or obviously fake photos. Much […]
December 6, 2024 | AI, AI crime, AI ethics, AI fraud, AI password, Asara Near, audio synthesis, Biz & IT, deepfakes, fbi, image synthesis, machine learning, safe word, secret word, Twitter, voice cloning, voice synthesis | No comments
On Thursday during a live demo as part of its “12 days of OpenAI” event, OpenAI announced a new tier of ChatGPT with higher usage limits for $200 a month and the full version of “o1,” the full version of a so-called reasoning model the company debuted in September. Unlike o1-preview, o1 can now process […]
December 5, 2024 | 12 days of OpenAI, AI, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Pro, chatgtp, GPT-4, GPT-4o, machine learning, o1, o1-preview, openai | No comments
This marks a potential shift in tech industry sentiment from 2018, when Google employees staged walkouts over military contracts. Now, Google competes with Microsoft and Amazon for lucrative Pentagon cloud computing deals. Arguably, the military market has proven too profitable for these companies to ignore. But is this type of AI the right tool for […]
December 5, 2024 | AI, Anduril, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, machine learning, openai | No comments
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a “12 days of OpenAI” period starting December 5, which will unveil new AI features and products for 12 consecutive weekdays. Altman did not specify the exact features or products OpenAI plans to unveil, but a report from The Verge about this “12 days of shipmas” event suggests […]
December 4, 2024 | AI, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, Christmas, machine learning, openai | No comments
By some measures, AI systems are now competitive with traditional computing methods for generating weather forecasts. Because their training penalizes errors, however, the forecasts tend to get “blurry”—as you move further ahead in time, the models make fewer specific predictions since those are more likely to be wrong. As a result, you start to see […]
December 4, 2024 | AI, atmospheric science, Computer science, Earth science, meteorology, Science, weather forecasting | No comments
Brandon Kashani, a former student of Brain’s and startup mentor at NC State’s entrepreneurship clinic, recalled to the Technician about how he met with Brain on November 15. “He felt like his reputation was tarnished, like everything he worked for was ruined, and the root of all that was he didn’t get any support from […]
December 4, 2024 | AI, Biz & IT, futurism, futurist, HowStuffWorks, Marshall Brain, NC State, NC State University, NCSU, Obituaries, obituary, Robotic Nation, robots, Tech, transhumanism, wired | No comments
Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020 he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos. […]
December 3, 2024 | AI, Google, LLMs, syndication | No comments
The “David Mayer” block in particular (now resolved) presents additional questions, first posed on Reddit on November 26, as multiple people share this name. Reddit users speculated about connections to David Mayer de Rothschild, though no evidence supports these theories. The problems with hard-coded filters Allowing a certain name or phrase to always break ChatGPT […]
December 2, 2024 | 404 Media, adversarial attacks, AI, Biz & IT, Brian Hood, ChatGPT, chatgtp, David Mayer, machine learning, openai, voldemort | No comments
OpenAI provided a statement to Ars today saying that “Elon’s fourth attempt, which again recycles the same baseless complaints, continues to be utterly without merit.” OpenAI referred to a longer statement that it made in March after Musk filed an earlier version of his lawsuit. The March statement disputes Musk’s version of events. “In late […]
December 2, 2024 | AI, Elon Musk, openai, Policy | No comments