IT News 1 year ago

Silicon Valley Is Debating If AI Weapons Should Be Allowed To Decide To Kill - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In late September, Shield AI ... -

Silicon Valley Is Debating If AI Weapons Should Be Allowed To Decide To Kill - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In late September, Shield AI cofounder Brandon Tseng swore that weapons in the U.S. would neve...

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IT News 1 year ago

Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys? - Two years ago, Tesla's Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of expo... -

Ars Technica

Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?

Partying robots spark debate about accuracy of Musk's "biggest product ever of any kind" vision.

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IT News 1 year ago

Former Google Chief Urges AI Investment Over Climate Targets - Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged prioritizing AI infrastructure over climate g... -

Former Google Chief Urges AI Investment Over Climate Targets - Slashdot

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged prioritizing AI infrastructure over climate goals at a Washington AI summit this week. Schmidt, who led Google...

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IT News 1 year ago

Bitcoin Creator Is Peter Todd, HBO Film Says - A new HBO documentary claims Canadian developer Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto, th... -

Bitcoin Creator Is Peter Todd, HBO Film Says - Slashdot

A new HBO documentary claims Canadian developer Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of bitcoin. The documentary

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IT News 1 year ago

In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize - On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel P... -

Ars Technica

In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize

Hinton, who quit Google in 2023 to warn of AI dangers, was "flabbergasted" at the news.

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IT News 1 year ago

US Police Seldom Disclose Use of AI-Powered Facial Recognition, Investigation Finds - An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Hundreds of Amer... -

US Police Seldom Disclose Use of AI-Powered Facial Recognition, Investigation Finds - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Hundreds of Americans have been arrested after being connected to a crime by faci...

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IT News 1 year ago

People Are Using Google Study Software To Make AI Podcasts - Audio Overview, a new AI podcasting tool by Google, can generate realistic podcast... -

People Are Using Google Study Software To Make AI Podcasts - Slashdot

Audio Overview, a new AI podcasting tool by Google, can generate realistic podcasts with human-like voices using content uploaded by users through ...

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IT News 1 year ago

Meta's New 'Movie Gen' AI System Can Deepfake Video From a Single Photo - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, Meta announced a... -

Meta

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, Meta announced a preview of Movie Gen, a new suite of AI models designed to creat...

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IT News 1 year ago

OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click - On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled Canvas, a new interface for ChatGPT designed ... -

Ars Technica

OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click

New side-by-side document and code-editing feature catches up with Anthropic's Artifacts.

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IT News 1 year ago

AI Agent Promotes Itself To Sysadmin, Trashes Boot Sequence - The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a ... -

AI Agent Promotes Itself To Sysadmin, Trashes Boot Sequence - Slashdot

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IT News 1 year ago

Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse - On Monday, Microsoft unveiled updates to its consumer AI assistant Copilot... -

Ars Technica

Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse

Microsoft brings two new opt-in trial features to some users of its Copilot AI-assistant.

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IT News 1 year ago

OpenAI Has Closed New Funding Round Raising Over $6.5 Billion - OpenAI has completed a deal to raise over $6.5 billion in new funding, giving the ... -

OpenAI Has Closed New Funding Round Raising Over $6.5 Billion - Slashdot

OpenAI has completed a deal to raise over $6.5 billion in new funding, giving the artificial intelligence company a more than $150 billion valuatio...

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IT News 1 year ago

Creating Video Games With AI: a Mario Example - Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be doing everything these days. Making image... -

Hackaday

Creating Video Games With AI: A Mario Example

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be doing everything these days. Making images, making videos, and replacing most of us real human writers if ...

#artificialintelligence #machinelearning #games #mario #ai

IT News 1 year ago

Anthropic Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Durk Kingma - OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma announced that he'll be joining Anthropic. "Anthropi... -

Anthropic Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Durk Kingma - Slashdot

OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma announced that he

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IT News 1 year ago

OpenAI unveils easy voice assistant creation at 2024 developer event - Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) On Monday, OpenAI kicked off it... -

Ars Technica

OpenAI unveils easy voice assistant creation at 2024 developer event

Altman steps back from the keynote limelight and lets four major API additions do the talking.

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IT News 1 year ago

Russia Is Banning Discord - Russian authorities are considering a ban on Discord, citing unspecified legal vio... -

Russia Is Banning Discord - Slashdot

Russian authorities are considering a ban on Discord, citing unspecified legal violations. According to the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, the...

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IT News 1 year ago

Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over. - An anonymous reader shares a report: Udemy, an e-learning platform with more than ... -

Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI

An anonymous reader shares a report: Udemy, an e-learning platform with more than 250,000 online classes, recently announced that it would train ge...

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IT News 1 year ago

Hackaday Links: September 29, 2024 - There was movement in the “AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act” last week, with the bill... -

Hackaday

Hackaday Links: September 29, 2024

There was movement in the “AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act” last week, with the bill advancing out of the US House of Representatives Ene...

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IT News 1 year ago

California's Governor Just Vetoed Its Controversial AI Bill - "California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, a high-profile bill that wou... -

California

"California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, a high-profile bill that would have regulated the development of AI," reports TechCru...

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IT News 1 year ago

Can AI Developers Be Held Liable for Negligence? - Bryan Choi, an associate professor of law and computer science focusing on softwar... -

Can AI Developers Be Held Liable for Negligence? - Slashdot

Bryan Choi, an associate professor of law and computer science focusing on software safety, proposes shifting AI liability onto the builders of the...

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