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Apple Is Reportedly Building a More Conversational Siri Powered By LLMs - According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is developing a new version of Siri powe... -

Apple Is Reportedly Building a More Conversational Siri Powered By LLMs - Slashdot

According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is developing a new version of Siri powered by large language models (LLMs). TechCrunch reports: The new...

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IT News 1 year ago

Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry - An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Instagram is flooded with hund... -

Inside the Booming

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Instagram is flooded with hundreds of AI-generated influencers who are stealing videos from rea...

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IT News 1 year ago

DeepSeek's First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance - An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of ... -

DeepSeek

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management foc...

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IT News 1 year ago

'Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine' - AI tools remain prediction engines despite new capabilities, requiring both qualit... -

'Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine' - Slashdot

AI tools remain prediction engines despite new capabilities, requiring both quality data and human judgment for successful deployment, according to...

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IT News 1 year ago

An Animated Walkthrough of How Large Language Models Work - If you wonder how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and aren’t afraid of getting a... -

Hackaday

An Animated Walkthrough Of How Large Language Models Work

If you wonder how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and aren’t afraid of getting a bit technical, don’t miss [Brendan Bycroft]’s ...

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BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 - Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit  Professor Thomas Eugene K... -

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week

IT News 1 year ago

Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' in UK - The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an "assertive" approach from the regula... -

Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' says UK government

The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an "assertive" approach from the regulator, Ofcom.

IT News 1 year ago

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous - CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes ex... -

Data is the new uranium – both powerful and dangerous

Column: CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value

IT News 1 year ago

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system - Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating th... -

Ars Technica

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a "Large Geospatial Model."

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IT News 1 year ago

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI - An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the... -

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last y...

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IT News 1 year ago

Pokemon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI To Navigate the World - Augmented reality gaming company Niantic plans to develop an AI system for navigat... -

Pokemon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI To Navigate the World - Slashdot

Augmented reality gaming company Niantic plans to develop an AI system for navigating physical spaces using data from millions of unsuspecting play...

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IT News 1 year ago

The Vecdec Cyberdeck is More than a Pretty Case - A common criticism we hear of cyberdecks is that functionality too often takes a b... -

Hackaday

The Vecdec Cyberdeck Is More Than A Pretty Case

A common criticism we hear of cyberdecks is that functionality too often takes a backseat to aesthetics — in other words, they might look awe...

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IT News 1 year ago

Coca-Cola Faces Creative Backlash Over AI Christmas Campaign - Coca-Cola's latest AI-generated Christmas advertisement has sparked criticism from... -

Coca-Cola Faces Creative Backlash Over AI Christmas Campaign - Slashdot

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IT News 1 year ago

Perplexity's AI Search Engine Can Now Buy Products For You - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Perplexity is rolling out a ne... -

Perplexity

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Perplexity is rolling out a new feature that will let Pro subscribers purchase a product withou...

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IT News 1 year ago

AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says - Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI's role in... -

Ars Technica

AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says

AI won't replace human artistry, says actor, but it will wildly drive down costs.

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IT News 1 year ago

HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors' Work to AI Company - HarperCollins has partnered with an AI technology company to allow limited use of ... -

HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors

HarperCollins has partnered with an AI technology company to allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models, offerin...

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IT News 1 year ago

Explicit Deepfake Scandal Shuts Down Pennsylvania School - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An AI-generated nude photo ... -

Explicit Deepfake Scandal Shuts Down Pennsylvania School - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, c...

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IT News 1 year ago

ChatGPT-4 Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Illness, Study Finds - Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study te... -

ChatGPT-4 Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Illness, Study Finds - Slashdot

Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study testing 50 licensed physicians to see whether ChatGPT improved thei...

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IT News 1 year ago

Google AI Gemini Threatens College Student: 'Human... Please Die' - A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from... -

Google AI Gemini Threatens College Student:

A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from Google

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IT News 1 year ago

AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models - French private AI lab PleIAs "is committed to training LLMs in the open," they wri... -

AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models - Slashdot

French private AI lab PleIAs "is committed to training LLMs in the open," they write in a blog post at Mozilla.org. "This means not on...

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